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Bonus Terms 2 Flashcards

1
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Abjure

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To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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Adumbrate (v)

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To foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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Anathema

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A solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anodyne (adj/n)

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Soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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Apogee

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Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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Apostate

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One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis

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Deification, glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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Asperity

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Severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability

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Asseverate

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To aver, allege, or assert

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Assiduous

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Diligent, hard working, sedulous

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Augury

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Omen, portent

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Bellicose

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Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Calumniate

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To slander, to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion

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Captious

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Disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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15
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Cavil

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To find fault without good reason

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16
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Celerity

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Speed, alacrity; think accelerate

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17
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Chimera

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An illusion; originally, a monster

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Contumacious

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Insubordinate; rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

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19
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Debacle

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Rout, fiasco, failure

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Denouement

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An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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21
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scry

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To catch sight of

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22
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Desuetude

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Disuse

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Desultory

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Random, aimless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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Diaphanous

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Transparent, gauzy

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Diffident

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Reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking in self confidence

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26
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Dirge

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A song of grief or lamentation

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Encomium

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Glowing and enthusiastic priase; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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28
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Eschew

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To shun or avoid

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29
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Excoriate

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To censure scathingly; to upbraid

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30
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Execrate

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To denounce; to feel loathing for; to curse; to declare to be evil

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Exegesis

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Critical examination, explication

32
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Expiate

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To atone or make amends for

33
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Extirpate

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To destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

34
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Fatuous

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Silly, inanely foolish

35
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Fractious

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Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

36
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Gainsay

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To deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

37
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Heterodox

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Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

38
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Imbroglio

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Difficult or embarrassing situation

39
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Indefatigable

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Not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged

40
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Ineluctable

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Certain, inevitable

41
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Inimitable

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One of a kind, peerless

42
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Insouciant

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Unconcerned, carefree, heedless

43
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Inveterate

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Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

44
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Jejune

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Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerlie

45
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Lubricious

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Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

46
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Mendicant

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A beggar, a supplicant

47
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Meretricious

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Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy

48
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Minatory

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Menacing, threatening (as in, the Minotaur)

49
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Nadir

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Low point, perigee

50
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Nonplussed

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Baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to think or do

51
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Obstreperous

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Noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

52
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Ossified

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Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned to bone

53
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Palliate

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To make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

54
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Panegyric

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Formal priase, eulogoy, encomium

55
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Parsimonious

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Cheap, miserly

56
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Pellucid

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Transparent, easy to understand, limpid

57
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Peroration

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The concluding part of a speech, flowery, rhetorical

58
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Plangent

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Pounding, thunderying, resounding

59
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Prolix

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Long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity

60
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Propitiate

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To appease; to conciliate

61
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Puerile

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Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

62
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Puissance

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Power, strength

63
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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly, craven

64
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Remonstrate

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To protest, to object

65
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Sagacious

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Having sound judgment, perceptive, wise, like a sage

66
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Salacious

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Lustful, lascivious, bawdy

67
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Salutary

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Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

68
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Sanguine

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Cheerful, confident, optimistic

69
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Saturnine

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Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

70
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Sententious

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Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

71
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Stentorian

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Extremely loud and powerful

72
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Stygian

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Gloomy, dark

73
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Sycophant

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Toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

74
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Tendentious

A

Biased; showing marked tendencies

75
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Timorous

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Timid, fearful, diffident

76
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Tyro

A

Novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

77
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Vitiate

A

To corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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