Chapter One Flashcards by Zariah Graham | Brainscape

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Algorithm

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Mechanical problem-solving procedure

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Immerse

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To engross, preoccupy

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Excruciating

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Agonizing, intensely painful

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Oration

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Lecture, formal speech

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Exuberant

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Lively, enthusiastic

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Cast (verb)

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To fling, to throw

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Pudgy

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Chubby, overweight

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Cherubic

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Sweet, innocent, resembling a cherub angel

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Effusive

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Expressing emotion without restraint

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Loiter

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To stand around idly with no obvious purpose

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Adroitly

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Skillfully

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Cuisine

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Style of cooking

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Corpulence

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Obesity, bulkiness

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Secluded

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Isolated, remote

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Vie

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To strive for superiority, compete

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Inept

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Clumsy, awkward

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Acquiesce

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To accept without opposition; comply quietly

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Alienate

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To make unfriendly or hostile where there had formerly been affection

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Ebb

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To recede, decline (as the tide)

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Adjacent

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Next to

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Aptly

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Appropriately, suitable, accurately

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Hamlet

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Small village

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Perpetual

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Endless, lasting

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Accrue

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To accumulate, grow by additions

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Magnate

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Powerful or influential person

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Patrician (adj.)

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Aristocratic

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Grandiose

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Magnificent and imposing; exaggerated and pretentious

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Meticulously

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Carefully, painstakingly

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Phalanx

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Massed group of people, animals, or things

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Magnanimous

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Generous, noble in spirit

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Progenitor

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Originator, forefather, ancestor in a direct line

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Depict

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To represent by or as if by a picture

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Retort (verb)

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To answer back in a sharp manner

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Band

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A source of harm or ruin

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Façade

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Face, font; mask, superficial appearance

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Sobriquet

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Nickname

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Dilapidated

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In despair, run down, neglected

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Emanate

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To come or send forth, as from source

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Laceration

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Cut, wound

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Veracity

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Accuracy, truth

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Expunge

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To erase, eliminate completely

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Accrue

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To accumulate, grow by addition

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Pediment

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Triangular gable on a roof or facade

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Muse (verb)

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To wonder about

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Orb

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Spherical body