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Batch 1 Flashcards

1
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Auspicious

A

Showing or suggesting that future success is likely

Attended by fortune

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2
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Carte blanche

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Full discretionary power

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Ruminate

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  1. To go over in the mind repeatedly and often carefully

2. To repeatedly for an extended period of time

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4
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Ignoble

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Of low birth or common origin

Not deserving respect not Noble

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5
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Fumarole

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A hole in a volcanic region from which hot gases or vapor escape

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Placid

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Serenely free of interruption or disturbance

Not easily upset or excited

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7
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Ennui

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A lack of spirit, enthusiasm, Or interest

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Surreptitious

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Done, made, Or acquired by stealth

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Persiflage

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Frivolous bantering talk

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10
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Alpenglow

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A reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on mountains

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Egregious

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Conspicuously or flagrantly bad

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Petulant

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Insolent or rude in speech or behavior

: having or showing the attitude of people who become angry and annoyed when they do not get what they want

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13
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Brocade

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A type of layered stitching that create a raised pattern

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Liturgy

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A rite or body of rights prescribe for worship

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Fecund

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1 : fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific
2 : intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree <a>
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16
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Frisson

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A brief moment of emotional excitement

shutter

17
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Laconic

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Expressing much in few words

18
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Fulminate

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to explode with a loud noise; detonate.

to issue or pronounce with vehement denunciation, condemnation, or the like. Used with against

19
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Fungible

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: being of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in the satisfaction of an obligation
: interchangeable
: flexible

20
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Ineluctable

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Incapable of being evaded

21
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dearth

A

Scarcity that makes dear

22
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Gallivant

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To go about and travel to many different places for pleasure

23
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Lambent

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1 : playing lightly on or over a surface : flickering
2 : softly bright or radiant
3 : marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression

24
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Limpid

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Marked by transparency

Clear and simple in style

25
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Adumbrate

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To foreshadow vaguely to outline partially

26
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Cortège

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A train of attendants

Funeral procession

27
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Indolent

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Averse to activity movement or action

28
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Alacrity

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A quick and cheerful readiness to do something

29
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Quixotic

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Overly or extremely romantic

30
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Gumption

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Enterprise initiative or confidence

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