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AAAAAA Flashcards

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Apprehension

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Fear about the future

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Harbinger

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Something that indicates what is to come

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Ominous

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Menacing

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Premonition

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A feeling about the future

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Timorous

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Timid

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Trepidation

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Uncertainty

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Innovative

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Introducing something new

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Naive

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Lacking sophistication

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Nascent

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Emerging

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Novel

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Unusual

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Novice

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A beginner

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Candor

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Openness

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Frank

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Straightforward

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Arid

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Rainless climate

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Conflagration

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A widespread fire

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Nocturnal

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Occurring in the night

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Sonorous

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Full sound

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Ample

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Large amount

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Comprehensive

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Large in scope

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Copious

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Plentiful

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Permeated

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Flowing throughout

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Pervasive

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Dispersed throughout

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Prodigious

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Enormous

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Replete

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Filled to capacity

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Exemplary

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Worthy of imitation

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Idealize

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To consider perfect

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Laudatory

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Giving praise

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Paramount

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Of chief concern

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Venerated

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Highly respected

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Catalog

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To make an itemized list of

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Facile

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Fastidious

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Difficult to please

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Hierarchy

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Organized by rank

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Meticulous

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Pragmatic

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Solvent

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Able to pay one’s debts

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Abstract

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Not applied to actual object

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Anachronism

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Out of place

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Anthropomorphism

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Attribution of human like

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Apology

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Defense of an idea

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Apparatus

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Apposition

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Archetype

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A perfect example

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Chiasmus

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An inversion

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Gesticulating

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Making gestures

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Hypothetical

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Speculation

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Lexicon

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A dictionary

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Metonymy

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Term is substituted

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Oxymoron

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Contradiction

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Panegyric

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High praise

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Paradigm

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An example

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Parallelism

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Two identical syntactic

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Period

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Correct sentence

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Pernicious

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Causing great harm

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Phenomenon

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Unusual events

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Propitious

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Favorable circumstances

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Rational

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Sardonic

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Syllogism

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Deductive reasoning

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Synecdoche

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Part signify whole

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Theoretical

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Lacking application

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