Day-1 Flashcards

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Abound
-Verb

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To exist in great numbers or quantities
( Stories about his travels abound.)

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Amorphous
Adj

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Having no definite shape, form or structure.
-Shapeless

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Austere
Adj

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Simple and plain; without any decorations
. The lonely, austere beauty of his paintings of a station in the snow

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Belie
V

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Belie something- to give a false impression of somebody/ something
- My calm exterior belies my deep inner fear.

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Capricious
Adj

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Showing sudden changes in attitude or behavior
- a movie star who was capricious and difficult to please

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Congenial
Adj

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(Of a person) pleasant to spend time with because their interests and character are similar to your own.
- a congenial colleague

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Conspicuous
Adj

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Easy to see or notice; likely to attract attention
- Bay windows are a conspicuous feature of his architecture.

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Cursory
Adj

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Done quickly and without giving enough attention to details.
- a cursory glance/ examination/ inspection
- He gave the report a rather cursory look.

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Daunting
Adj

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Making somebody feel nervous and less confident about doing something; likely to make somebody feel this way.
- Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.

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Deify
V

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Deify somebody- to treat somebody as a god

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Didactic
Adj

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Designed to teach people something, especially a moral lesson
. Didactic art

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Disseminate
V

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Disseminate something- to spread information, knowledge, etc. so that it reaches many people
- Their findings have been widely disseminated.

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Feasible
Adj

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That is possible and likely to be achieved.
- a feasible plan/ suggestion/ idea
- It’s just not feasible to manage the business on a part-time basis.

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Flout
V

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Flout sth: to show that you have no respect for a law, etc. by openly not obeying it = defy
- Motorists regularly flout the law.
- to flout authority / convention

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Homogeneous
Adj

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Consisting of things or people that are all the same or all of the same typ
- a homogeneous group/ mixture/ proportion
- Old people are not a homogeneous group, as some people seem to think.

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Humdrum
Adj

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Boring and always the same
- dull, tedious
- a humdrum existence/ job/ life
- the use of computers to perform humdrum tasks
- the humdrum business of making money

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Insipid
Adj

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Having almost no taste.
- a cup of insipid coffee.

18
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Loquacious
Adj

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Talking a lot.
Talkative

19
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Misanthropic
Adj

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Hating and avoiding other people.

20
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Misnomer
Adj

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A name or a word that is not appropriate or accurate
- “Villa” was something of a misnomer- the place was no more than an old farmhouse.

21
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Negligent
Adj

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(Law or formal) failing to give sbd/sth enough care or attention, especially when this has serious results
- The hospital was negligent in the way it cared for this young boy.
- The school had been negligent in not informing the child’s parents about the incident.

22
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Obsequious
Adj

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Trying too hard to please someone, especially sbd who is important
- The service in the restaurant was attentive without being obsequious.

23
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Placate
V

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placate sbd- to make sbd feel less angry about something.

24
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Proclivity
N

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A natural desire or need that makes you tend to do sth, often something bad
- his sexual/criminal proclivities
- the government’s proclivity for spending money
- Most regimes have self-destructive proclivities.

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Puerile
Adj

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  • childish
  • silly; suitable for a child rather than an adult
26
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Quixotic
Adj

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Having or involving ideas that show imagination but are usually not practical

27
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Spendthrift
N

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A person who spends too much money or who wastes money

28
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Tactiturn
Adj

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Tending not to say very much, in a way that seems unfriendly
- a tactiturn and serious young man

29
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Wary
Adj

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  • careful when dealing with somebody/ something because you think that there may be a danger or problem
  • cautious
  • she was wary of getting involved with him.
    -The police will need to keep a wary eye on this area of town.
30
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Adulterate
V

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To make food or drink less pure by adding another substance to it.
- The water supply had been adulterated with chemicals from the soil.