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Analytical Reading Midterm Semester 2 Midterm 1 Flashcards

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Accord

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Definition: to bring into agreement

Antonyms: conflict, disagreement, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness

Synonyms: agreement, bargain, compact, deal, disposition, pact, settlement, understanding

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Ascribe

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Definition: to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author

Antonyms: assign, refer; associate, attach,

Synonyms: accredit, credit, attribute, chalk up, impute, lay, put down

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Aspire

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Definition: to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal

Antonyms: decline, descend, dip, drop, fall (off), plunge

Synonyms: intend, calculate, contemplate, design, go

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Beset

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Definition: to set or stud with or as if with ornaments, trouble

Antonyms: cover, defend, guard, protect, secure, shield

Synonyms: agonize, anguish, bedevil, afflict, besiege, curse, excruciate, torment, torture

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Bounty

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Definition: something that is given generously

Antonyms: deduction, loss, subtraction

Synonyms: reward, price

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Compel

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Definition: to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly

Antonyms: allow, let, permit; argue, convince, induce, move, persuade, prevail

Synonyms: blackjack, coerce, force, constrain, dragoon, drive, impel, impress, make, muscle, obligate, oblige, press, pressure, sandbag

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Conviction

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Definition: the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law

Antonyms: doubt, incertitude, nonconfidence, uncertainty

Synonyms: assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, doubtlessness, face, positiveness, satisfaction, sureness, surety

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Cunning

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Definition: dexterous or crafty in the use of special resources or in attaining an end

Antonyms: artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning

Synonyms: clever, dexterous, deft, handy

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Dilemma

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Definition: an argument presenting two or more equally conclusive alternatives against an opponent

Antonyms: breeze, cinch, duck soup, snap

Synonyms: bind, box, catch-22, corner, predicament, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot

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Endow

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Definition: to furnish with an income

Antonyms: defund, disendow

Synonyms: bless, endue, favor, gift, invest

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Endure

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Definition: to undergo, especially without giving in, suffer

Antonyms: cease, close, conclude, desist, die, discontinue, end, expire, finish, lapse, leave off, pass

Synonyms: experience, feel, have, know, pass, see, suffer, sustain, taste, undergo, witness

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Exploitation

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Definition: use or utilization, especially for profit

Antonyms: impracticable, inoperable, nonfunctional, unavailable, unemployable, unusable

Synonyms: available, employable, usable, fit, functional, operable, practicable, serviceable, useful

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Flag

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Definition: to signal with or as if with a flag, to signal to stop

Antonyms: convalesce, rally, rebound, recover, recuperate; gain

Synonyms: flag, hang, loll, sag, swag, wilt

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Grievous

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Definition: causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or sorrow

Antonyms: easy, light, soft

Synonyms: afflicting, agonizing, cruel, excruciating, galling, bitter, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturous

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Impede

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Definition: to interfere with or slow the progress of

Antonyms: aid, assist, facilitate, help

Synonyms: clog, cramp, embarrass, encumber, fetter, handcuff, handicap, hinder, hobble, hog-tie, hold back, hold up, hamper, inhibit, interfere

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Invert

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Definition: to reverse ion position, order, or relationship

Synonyms: flip, reverse, turn over

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Menace

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Definition: a show of intention to inflict harm, threat

Antonyms: guard, protection, safeguard, shield, ward

Synonyms: hazard, imminence, danger, peril, pitfall, risk, threat, trouble

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Refute

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Definition: to prove wrong by argument or evidence

Antonyms: acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, concede, confirm, own

Synonyms: belie, confound, confute, debunk, disconfirm, discredit, falsify, rebut, disprove, shoot down

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Reserve

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Definition: to hold in back or keep back, to set aside

Antonyms: disinhibition, incontinence, unconstraint

Synonyms: continence, discipline, discretion, inhibition, refrainment, repression, constraint, restraint, self-command, self-control, self-restraint, suppression

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Respite

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Definition: a period of temporary delay

Antonyms: humorless, lame, unamusing, uncomic, unfunny, unhumorous, unhysterical

Synonyms: antic, chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, hilarious, humoristic

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Riddle

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Definition: a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed

Synonyms: closed book, conundrum, enigma, head-scratcher, mystification, mystery, secret

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Toil

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Definition: long strenuous fatiguing labor, struggle, battle

Antonyms: fun, play

Synonyms: donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, fatigue, grind, labor, moil, slavery, sweat, travail

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Unscrupulous

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Definition: not honest or fair, unprincipled

Antonyms: ethical, moral, principled, scrupulous

Synonyms: cutthroat, unethical, unprincipled

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Unshod

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Definition: not wearing or provided with shoes

Antonyms: shod

Synonyms: barefoot, discalceate, discalced, shoeless

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Discord

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Definition: lack of agreement or harmony

Antonyms: accord, agreement, concord, concordance, harmony, peace

Synonyms: conflict, disaccord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissension, infighting

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Catharsis

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Definition: purification or purgation of the emotions

Antonyms: dirtying

Synonyms: ablution, cleansing, purgation, release

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Cryptic

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Definition: secret, occult

Antonyms: long-winded

Synonyms: obscure, dark, vague

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Debauchery

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Definition: extreme indulgence in sensuality

Antonyms: morality, virtue

Synonyms: corruption, vice, depravity, immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, profligacy, sin

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Clairvoyance

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Definition: the power or faculty of discerning objects

Synonyms: extrasensory perception, second sight, sixth sense

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Dubious

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Definition: giving rise to uncertainty, doubtful promise or outcome

Antonyms: certain, hands-down, incontestable, indisputable, indubitable

Synonyms: questionable, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious

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Cavalier

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Definition: a gentleman trained in arms and horsemanship, a knight

Antonyms: humble, shy

Synonyms: gentleman

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Deleterious

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Definition: harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way

Antonyms: anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe

Synonyms: adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, harmful

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Charlatan

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Definition: one making usually showy pretenses to knowledge or ability

Antonyms: expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard

Synonyms: pretender, quack, quacksalver, ringer, sham

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Destitute

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Definition: lacking something needed or desirable

Antonyms: opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken, skint

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Cordial

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Definition: obsolete, of or relating to the heart

Antonyms: antagonistic, hostile, unfriendly

Synonyms: neighborly, palsy, palsy-walsy, warm, warmhearted

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Debacle

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Definition: a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river

Antonyms: blockbuster, hit, smash, success, winner

Synonyms: apocalypse, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy

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Expound

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Definition: to set fourth, to state

Antonyms: stifle, suppress

Synonyms: air, express, give, look, raise, sound, state, vent, ventilate, voice

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Forebode

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Definition: to have an inward conviction pf

Synonyms: augur, bode, promise

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Eloquent

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Definition: marked by forceful and fluent expression

Antonyms: inarticulate, ineloquent, unvocal

Synonyms: articulate, fluent, silver-tongued, well-spoken

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Fortify

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Definition: to make strong, strengthen

Antonyms: debilitate, enervate, enfeeble, weaken

Synonyms: brace, forearm, nerve, poise, ready, steel, strengthen

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Eclectic

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Definition: heterogeneous, selecting what appears to be best in various doctrines, methods, or style

Antonyms: homogeneous

Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, heterogeneous, indiscriminate

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Elusive

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Definition: tending to evade grasp or pursuit

Synonyms: evasive, fugitive, slippery

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Emanate

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Definition: to come out of a source

Antonyms: absorb, inhale, soak (up), sponge, suck (up), take up

Synonyms: spring, arise, rise, originate, derive, flow, issue

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Exonerate

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Definition: to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship

Antonyms: criminate, incriminate

Synonyms: absolve, acquit, clear, exculpate, vindicate

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Friviolous

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Definition: of little weight or importance

Antonyms: big, consequential, eventful, important, major

Synonyms: fiddling, foolish, unimportant, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little

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Furtive

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Definition: done by stealth, stolen

Antonyms: open, overt, public

Synonyms: sneaky, shady, shifty, slippery, sly, sneaking, stealthy

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Futile

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Definition: serving no useful purpose

Antonyms: deadly, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, fruitful, potent, productive, profitable, successful, virtuous

Synonyms: abortive, barren, bootless, empty, fruitless, ineffective, ineffectual, profitless, unavailing, unproductive

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Feasible

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Definition: capable of being done or carried out

Synonyms: hopeless, impossible, impracticable, nonviable, unattainable, unfeasible, unworkable

Synonyms: achievable, attainable, doable, possible, practicable, realizable, viable, workable

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Flagrant

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Definition: a conspicuously offensive

Antonyms: concealed, hidden, invisible

Synonyms:blatant, conspicuous, egregious, glaring, gross, obvious, patent, pronounced, rank, striking

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Enigma

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Definition: an obscure speech or writing

Synonyms: closed book, conundrum, mystery, head-scratcher, mystification, puzzle, puzzlement, riddle, secret

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Equitable

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Definition: dealing fairly and equally with all concerned

Antonyms: inequitable, nonobjective, one-sided, partial

Synonyms: nonpartisan, objective, square, unbiased, unprejudiced

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Elated

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Definition: marked by high spirits

Antonyms: depressed

Synonyms: ecstatic, elevated, enrapt, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, giddy, heady, intoxicated

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Feign

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Definition: to give a false appearance of

Synonyms: act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, pass

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Fidelity

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Definition: the quality or state of being faithful

Antonyms:
disloyalty, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidy, treachery, unfaithfulness

Synonyms: adhesion, allegiance, attachment, commitment, constancy, dedication, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fastness, fealty, loyalty, piety, steadfastness, troth

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Extraneous

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Definition: not forming an essential or vital part

Antonyms: inherent, innate, intrinsic

Synonyms: accidental, adventitious, alien, extrinsic, external, foreign, supervenient

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Flaunt

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Definition: to display or obtrude oneself to public notice

Antonyms: obscure, occlude, occult, shroud, veil

Synonyms: display, disport, exhibit, expose, flash, show, lay out, parade, produce, show off, sport, strut, unveil

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Extricate

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Definition: to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty

Antonyms: embroil, entangle

Synonyms: clear, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, free, liberate, release, untangle, cut loose

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Emaciate

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Definition: to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin

Antonyms: convalesce, rally, rebound, recover, recuperate; gain

Synonyms: decay, droop, weaken, fade, fail, flag, go, wilt, wither

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Empathy

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Definition: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, of the past

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Flux

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Definition: a continuous moving on or passing

Antonyms: outflow, outpouring

Synonyms: change, fluctuation, inconstancy, oscillation

Analytical Reading Midterm (1 decks)

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