Core Vocabulary Flashcards
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ABRUPT
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sudden or unexpected
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ADAMANT
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extremely stubborn; fixed in one’s viewpoint
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ABUNDANT
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- plentiful
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ACCENTUATE
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- to make more noticeable or prominent
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ACCLAIM
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- enthusiastic and public praise
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ADAPTATION
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- a change made to accommodate new circumstances
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ADVANTAGEOUS
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- creating favorable circumstances
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AESTHETIC
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- concerned with
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AFFECTING
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- touching the emotions; moving
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AFFINITY
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- a strong attraction or liking
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AMBIGUOUS
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- unclear; open to more than one interpretation
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AMELIORATE
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- to make better; improve
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AMBIVALENCE
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- having mixed feelings
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AMORPHOUS
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- shapeless; synonym for “nebulous”
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ANALOGY
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- a comparison intended to provide clarification
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ANIMOSITY
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- strong feelings of dislike or hatred
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ANNOTATE
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- to make notes to help explain or clarify
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ANOMALY
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- deviation from the norm; atypical
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ANTITHETICAL
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- characterized by extreme contrast
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APPEASE
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- to make peace by giving into demands
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APPRAISE
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- to assess the value or quality of something
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APPROXIMATE
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- close but not completely accurate
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AUGMENT
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- to increase
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AUSTERE
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- very plain, without decoration
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CATALYZE
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- to cause or speed up a reaction
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CATASTROPHIC
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- utterly disastrous
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CEASE
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- to stop, halt
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CIRCUMVENT
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- to find a way around; avoid
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CITE
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- to quote or reference from a work to support an argument
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COALESCE
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- to come together to form a single mass
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COARSENESS
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- roughness, harshness
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COLLABORATION
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- the act of working with another person or people
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- COMMONPLACE
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- common, ordinary
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- COMPRISE
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- to include, contain
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- CONFINE
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- to restrict within a limited area
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- CONFOUND
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- to utterly confuse, baffle
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- CONSENSUS
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- general agreement
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- CONSPICUOUS
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- clearly visible; noticeable
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- CONSUMPTION
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- the process of eating or using up
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- CONTINGENT
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- dependent upon; subject to
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- CONTRIVE
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- to think up
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- COPIOUS
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- abundant; plentiful
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- CREDIBLE
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- believable
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- CREDULOUS
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- easily fooled
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- DEBACLE
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- a complete failure; fiasco
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- DEPLETE
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- to diminish
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- DESPONDENT
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- feeling depressed
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- DEVIATION
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- departure from what is normal
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- DEXTEROUS
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- physically skilled, especially with one’s hands
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- DISCERNIBLE
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- visible; detectable
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- DISCORD
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- general disagreement
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- DISPARATE
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- very different
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- DISPERSE
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- to scatter
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- DISPOSITION
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- inherent personality or character trait
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- DIVERGE
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- to move apart
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- DOMESTICATION
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- the process of taming an animal or cultivating a wild plant
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- DRACONIAN
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- excessively harsh laws, rules, and punishments
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- ECCENTRIC
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- highly odd or unconventional (person)
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- ECLIPSE
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- to overshadow or block
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- ELICIT
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- to draw out, usually a response
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- ENGENDER
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- to cause or give rise to
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- ELUSIVE
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- difficult to find, catch, or achieve
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- ENGULF
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- to overwhelm; surround completely
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- ENHANCE
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- to improve or intensify
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- EPHEMERAL
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- very brief; short-lived
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- EQUITABLE
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- fair
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- ERRATIC
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- unpredictable; not regular
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- EVADE
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- to escape or avoid
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- EVINCE
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- to reveal or show one’s feelings
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- EXACERBATE
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- to make worse
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- EXCAVATION
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- the process of digging up, usually a historic site
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- EXORBITANT
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- extreme and excessive
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- EXPLICIT
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- stated directly and with complete clarity
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- EXPLOIT
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- to take advantage of
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- EXPOSURE
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- contact with someone or something (noun form of “expose”)
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- FABRICATE
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- to invent or make up, typically with the intent to deceive
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- FAQADE
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- (false) exterior
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- FOSTER
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- to encourage or promote something typically seen to be good
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- FRUITFUI/FRUITLESS
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- productive/unproductive
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- GALVANIZE
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- to energize, spur into action
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HAPHAZARD
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- random and disorganized
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HETEROGENEOUS
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- varied, diverse; synonym for “multifaceted”
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HINDER
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- to block, prevent; synonym for “impede”
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IDIOSYNCRATIC
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- highly particular, unique to an individual
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IDEALIZE
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- to imagine something as better than it is in reality
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ILLUSORY
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- not real; based on an illusion
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IMMINENT
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- about to happen
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IMPEDE
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- to delay or prevent
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IMPECCABLE
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- faultless, spotless
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IMPENETRABLE
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- impossible to pass through
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IMPERATIVE
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- of vital importance; crucial
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IMPERCEPTIBLE
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- cannot be seen or perceived