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CH. 9 - Medium Flashcards

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Fortitude

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Courage, resilience.

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Patois

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Regional dialect.

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Equanimity

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Composure, mental calmness, balance

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Diffidence

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Hessitance or resistance to speak.

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Consternation

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Amazement or dismay that leads to confusion.

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Disportment

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Amusement or diversion.

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Canard

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An unfounded rumor or story.

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Pith

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The essence of something.

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Periphery

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Opposite of central.

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Wheedling

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Using flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something.

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Freewheeling

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Acting without concern for rules or consequences.

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Verdant

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Green, covered in vegetation.

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Supine

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Passive, apathetic.

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Unremitting

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Never relaxing or slackening; incessant.

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Superfluous

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Unnecessary, wasteful.

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Frisson

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A sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear; a thrill.

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Murmur

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Soft, indistinct sound.

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Panegyric

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Formal speech or composition in praise of someone or something.

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Diluting

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Making weaker by adding other elements to it.

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Ennui

A

Listlessness arising from boredom.

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Covetousness

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Envious desire to possess something.

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Hack

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A dull, unoriginal writer.

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Virtuoso

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Highly skilled, especially in music or art.

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Inane

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Silly

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Inept

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Having or showing no skill; clumsy.

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Duplicity

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Deceitfulness; double-dealing.

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Foresaken

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Abandoned

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Brooked

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Tolerated

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Beset

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Surrounded

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Culling

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Reduction of a wild animal population by selective slaughter.

The action of sending an inferior or surplus farm animal to be slaughtered.

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Depleting

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Diminishing in number or quantity

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Sage

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Wise or learned person.

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Prevaricator

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Someone who tells false stories.

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Raconteur

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Someone who tells amusing stories.

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Belligerent

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Hostile and aggressive.

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Pedantic

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Overly concerned with small details or rules.

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Eluded

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Fail to be grasped or remembered.

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Derided

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Mocked, ridiculed.

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Evinced

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Demonstrated

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Subtlety

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Delicateness.

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Doggerel

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Triviality

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Repartee

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Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies.

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Mettlesome

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Spirited or courageous.

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Impetuous

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Impulso e

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Heady

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Intoxicating; exhilarating.

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Penchant

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A strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something.

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Kinship

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Blood relationship.

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Largess

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Generosity

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Plutocracy

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Government by the wealthy.

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Bugaboo

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Something causing fear.

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Sleight of hand

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Skillfull deception.

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Occlusive

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Tending to close off.

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Ostensible

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Supposedly try, but not necessarily true.

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Recalcitrant

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Stubborn

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Pedestrian

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Commonplace, uninspired

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Monolithic

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Inflexible, unchanging

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Desiccation

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Drying out

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Compunction

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Uneasiness due to guilt.

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Surfeit

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Excessive amount.

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Scintilla

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Minute quantity, trace or bit.

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Pallet

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Straw mattress.

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Conflagration

A

Destructive fire.

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Incendiary

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Fire-starter.

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Havoc

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Destructive.

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Rankled

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Angered, vexed.

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Enervated

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Weakened

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Debased

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Reduced in quality or value.

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Evanescent

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Tending to vanish like vapor.

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Pernicious

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Greatly destructive, deadly, injurious or harmful.

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Latency

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The state of existing but not yet being developed or manifest; concealment.

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Insularity

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The narrow point of view resulting from life in a closed, isolated community.

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Lucidity

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Clarity of expression; intelligibility

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Countermand

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Order that revokes previous order.

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Iniquitous

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Unjust

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Halcyon

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Calm, peaceful, tranquil

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Circumlocution

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Roundabout or evasive speech; use of more words than necessary.

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Unheralded

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Unannounced, unsung

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious

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Provenance

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Source, history of ownership (origin)

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Bane

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Curse, affliction.

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Plumbed

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Examined closely.

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Deceleration

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Slowing down.

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Dearth

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Scarcity or lack of something.

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Glut

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Excessive supply.

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Timbre

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Unique combination of qualities distinguishing a sound from others

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Clangor

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Loud racket or sustained noise.

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Deleterious

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Harmful, unhealthy

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Auspicious

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Promising or propitious.

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Subdued

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Quiet, soft

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Noisome

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Noxious, harmful or dangerous

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Undulating

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Rising or falling in volume, pitch or cadence.

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Erstwhile

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Former, in the past, previous.

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