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Beyond Group 1 Flashcards

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Alloy (verb)

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to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

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Appropriate (verb)

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to take for one’s own use; to confiscate

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Arrest, arresting (verb) / (adj)

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to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait

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August (adj)

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majestic, venerable

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Bent (noun)

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leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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Broach (verb)

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to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

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Brook (verb)

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to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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Cardinal (adj)

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major, as in cardinal sin

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Chauvinist (noun)

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a blindly devoted patriot

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Color (verb)

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to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first)

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Consequential (adj)

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pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)

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Damp (verb)

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to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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Die (noun)

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a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

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Essay (verb)

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to test out or try; to attempt; to experiment

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Exact (verb)

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to demand; to call for; to require; to take

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Fell (verb)

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to cause to fall by striking

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Fell (adj)

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inhumanly cruel

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Flag (verb)

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to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

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Flip (adj)

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sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark

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Ford (verb)

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to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Grouse (verb)

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to complain or grumble

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Guy (noun)

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a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy

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Intimate (verb)

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to imply, suggest, or insinuate

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List (verb)

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to tilt or lean to one side

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Lumber (verb)

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to move heavily and clumsily

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Meet (adj)

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fitting, proper

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Milk (verb)

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to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

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Mince (verb)

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to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemism, to speak too carefully. Also to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

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Nice (adj)

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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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Obtain (adj)

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to be established, accepted, or customary

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Occult (adj)

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hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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Pedestrian (adj)

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commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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Pied (adj)

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multicolored, usually in blotches

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Pine (verb)

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to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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Plastic (adj)

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moldable, pliable, not rigid

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Pluck (noun)

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courage, spunk, fortitude

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Prize (verb)

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to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

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Rail (verb)

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to complain about bitterly

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Rent (verb)

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torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such

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Quail (verb)

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to lose courage; to turn frightened

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Qualify (verb)

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to limit

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Sap (verb)

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to enervate or weaken the vitality of

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Sap (noun)

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a fool or nitwit

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Scurvy (adj)

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contemptible, despicable

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Singular (adj)

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exceptional, unusual, odd

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Stand (noun)

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a group of trees

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Steep (verb)

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to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

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Strut (noun)

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the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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Table (verb)

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to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

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Tender (verb)

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to proffer or offer

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Waffle (verb)

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to equivocate; to change one’s position

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Wag (noun)

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wit, joker

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