A (set 3) Flashcards

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Aloof

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Uninvolved; standing off; keeping one’s distance

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Allusion

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And indirect reference; hint (often to a literary work)

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Altruism

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Selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interest of others

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Ambience

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Atmosphere; mood; feeling

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Ambiguous

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Unclear in meaning; confusing; capable of being interpreted in different ways

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Ambivalent

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Undecided; having opposed feelings simultaneously

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Ameliorate

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To make better or more tolerable

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Amenable

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Obedient; willing to give into the wishes of another; agreeable

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Amenity

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Pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature

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Amiable

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Friendly; agreeable

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Amnesty

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An official pardon for a group of people who have violated a policy

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Amoral

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Lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral; without feelings

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Amorous

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Feeling loving, especially in a sexual sense

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Amorphous

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Shapeless; without a regular or stable shape

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Anachronism

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Something out of place and time or history

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Analogy

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A comparison of one thing to another

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Anarchy

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Absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder

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Anecdote

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Short account of a humorous or revealing incident

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Anguish

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Agonizing physical or mental pain

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Animosity

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Resentment; hostility; ill will

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Anomaly

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An aberration; and a regularity; a deviation

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Antecedent

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Someone or something that went before; something that provides a model for something that came after

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Antipathy

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Firm dislike; a dislike

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Anti-thesis

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The direct opposite