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8 vocab Flashcards

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Crucify

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Criticize severely

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Inedible

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Not fit to be eaten

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Embargo

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Ban on trade with a country

An example of an embargo is the trade ban in place that prevents the US from trading with Cuba.

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Sanction

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Threatend penalty for disobeying a law

Ex: jail time

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Annex

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The definition of annex means to attach something, particularly to a larger entity.

An example of annex is to acquire new states into a country.

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Whim

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A sudden desire to do something that wasn’t planned, change of mind

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Eccentric

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Eccentric is defined as someone or something that is different or behaves in an unconventional way.

An example of eccentric is an adult wearing footy pajamas to a formal dinner.

Read more at http://www.yourdictionary.com/eccentric#Ko5wWzDGLv6eyY1t.99

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Caveat

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A warning

Ex: police telling someone to stop or they’ll shoot

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Demagogue

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The definition of a demagogue is a leader who plays to peoples’ emotions and uses prejudices to gain power.

An example of a demagogue is Joseph Stalin.

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Mistrial

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Jury can’t agree on a verdict

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amity

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friendship

lasting amity

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auspicious

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favorable

ex: an auspicious occasion

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bastion

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stronghold/ fortress

ex: a bastion for democracy

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trepidation

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fear

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innocuous

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harmless

ex: innocuous circumstances

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assuage

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lessen

ex: to assuage ones grief

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fervor

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passion

ex: fervor for the sport

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conscious

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obvious

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disparate

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different

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emulate

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strive to equal or excel

ex: to emulate his behavior

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nullify

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to make void, cancel

ex: to nullify the agreement

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tenacious

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hard to defeat, determined, sticking to ones position

ex: to be tenacious

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blithe

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carefree

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animated

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lively

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disparage

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belittle, to make seem unimportant

ex: to disparage her achievement

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ephemeral

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short-lived,

ex: ephemeral pleasures

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prosaic

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dull, unimaginative, no poetic beauty

ex: prosaic language can’t convey the expierence

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astute

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shrewd, good judgement/understand situations well

ex: to be an astute observer

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languish

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to become weak

ex: he has been languishing in jail since 1974

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censure

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to express disapproval

ex: to censure the members

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expedient

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advantages w/out necessarily being right or proper

something that’s convenient but improper

ex: an expedient course of action
ex: the current policy is a political expedient

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