751-875 Flashcards
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Beleaguered
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Harassed
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Contingent
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Dependent on conditions or circumstances
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Regal
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Kingly
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Radical
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Favoring fundamental or extreme change
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Errant
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Wandering outside of established limits
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Chagrin
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Feeling of Embarassment
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Contentious
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Always ready to argue
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Patriarch
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A man who rules a family clan
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Umbrage
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Offense it resentment
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Paradigm
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an example
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Lethargic
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Dull and sluggish
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Dissent
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Disagree
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Inherit
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Included as an essential part
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frail
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Easily broken
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Intransigent
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Refusing to compromise
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Laughingstock
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A person or thing that is the object of laughter
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Fulminate
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To issue a strong verbal attack
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Juncture
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A point of time
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Recruit
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To restore
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Ravage
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To cause great destruction to
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Hectic
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Characterized by intense activity
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Appraise
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To officially estimate the worth of
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Deride
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To redicule
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Exuberant
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Lively and happy
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Guise
External appearance
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Juxtapose
To put side by side
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Throng
A crowd, a number of people gathering together
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Wake
Track of turbulence left by something moving through water
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Ramification
A develop it consequence resulting from a course of action.
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Articulate
Able to express oneself clearly and effectively
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Destitution
The lack of any jeans of subsistence, poor
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Propriety
Good manners, proper behavior
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Implausible
Difficult to believe
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Conjecture
An inference or conclusion based on incomplete evidence
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Sublime
Of high spiritual or moral worth
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Composure
A calm state of mind
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Sediment
A residue that settles in the bottom of something
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Felon
One who had committed a serious crime
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Incipient
Beginning to appear or to be noticed
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Excavate
To expose to view by digging out
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Endemic
Native to a particular county
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Exalt
To raise in status
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Imperative
Urgently necessary
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Incognito
In disguise
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Maintain
To provide support
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Adjudicate
To judge to preside
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Perjury
Lying under oath
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Flora
Plants as a group
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Lout
An awkward, stupid person
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Abate
To lessen in amount, intensity or strength
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Hue
A shade of color
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Relinquish
To surrender or release
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Tributary
A stream flowing into a larger river
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Mystical
Having a spiritual sense or importance
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Staple
A basic or principal item
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Maneuver
To direct through a series of movements
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Ramshackle
About to fall apart
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Internecine
Pertaining to conflict within a group
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Hearten
Encourage
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Sluggish
Lazy, lacking energy
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Orchestrate
To arrange so as to achieve a desired effect
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Verbiage
Excessive wordiness
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Pristine
Remaining in a pure state
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Scoff
To make fun of
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Inoculate
To inject something
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Defame
To attack a persons reputation
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Opaque
Not letting in light
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Vigorous
Energetic, forceful
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Partisan
A strong, often militant
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Mausoleum
A huge tomb
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Monarch
One who rules a state
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Nadir
The lowest point
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Bequeath
To pass down to
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Resuscitate
To revive, from apparent death
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Fallacy
A false notion
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Polemic
A controversial argument
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Hearsay
Rumor, gossip
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Bellow
To tell very loudly
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Vagrant
A person who wanders from place to place
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Indigenous
Native
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Inert
Unable to move or respond
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Pandemic
General, widespread
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Nascent
Coming into being
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Brazen
Showing shamelessness, boldness
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Harbinger
Someone or something that indicates what is to come
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Stalwart
Firm and resolute
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Ledger
A book for keeping financial records
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Assiduous
Diligent, hard working
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Quarantine
Enforced isolation to prevent the spread of a disease
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Harrowing
Very stressful
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Abet
To encourage, assist
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Obscure
Lacking light
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Immaculate
Perfectly clean
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Office
A duty or function
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Repository
A place where things are kept for safekeeping
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Verdant
Green
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Incite
To provoke, to urge on
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Indisposed
Slightly Ill
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Inveterate
Established for a long time
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Husband
To conserve
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Admonish
To warn so a fault can be corrected
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Commute
To change a punishment to one less severe
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Meager
Lacking in quantity or vigor
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Disparage
To speak in a disapproving or slighting manner
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Neutral
Pertaining to a nerve
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Refusal
Garbage
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Prosperity
Wealth, good fortune
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Engulf
To swallow up
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Saturate
To soak or fill to capacity
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Invalidate
To cancel
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Wreak
To inflict, to cause
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Auditory
Relating to the sense of hearing
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Muse
To meditate, to consider thoughtfully
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Disdain
A feeling of contempt
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Grovel
To beg; to lower oneself to please another
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Delegate
To entrust another person
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Retrospect
The consideration of past events
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Utopia
An ideally perfect place
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Ponder
To think over with great care
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Intervene
To come between two things
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Ineffable
Incapable of being expressed
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Imposing
Impressive by virtue of size, power
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Vanguard
The leading position in an army or fleet
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Calamity
An event causing trouble
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Irony
Use of words in which the intending meaning is different from the literal sense
