Day 10-12 Flashcards

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Disillusion

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To free from or deprive of illusion

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Sporadic

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Infrequent, irregular

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Conflagration

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Destructive fire

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Amalgamate

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To mix, to combine

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Aberration

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Something different from the usual

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Analogous

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Comparable, similar, parallel

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Deride

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To scoff, ridicule, mock

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Patrician

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Aristocrat

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Chide

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To scold, express disapproval

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Resuscitate

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To revive, to bring back to life

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Insolence

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An attitude or behavior that is bold and disrespectful

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Substantiate

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To verify or support by evidence

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Belie

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To present a false or contradictory argument

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Coalesce

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To grow together or cause to unite as one

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Equanimity

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Calmness, composure

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Truculent

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Aggressive, hostile, belligerent

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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Unequivocal

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Absolute, certain

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Esoteric

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Understood by only a learned few

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Stilted

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Stifle, unnatural

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Presumptuous

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Going beyond the limits of courtesy or appropriateness

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Pedagogue

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Teacher

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Restitution

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Act of compensating for loss or damage

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Exacerbate

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To aggravate, worsen

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Mar

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To damage, deface, spoil

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Denounce

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To accuse, blame, decry

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Spurious

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Not genuine or authentic

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Opt

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To decide to leave or withdraw, to make a choice

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Supplant

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Replace, substitute, displace

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Finagle

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To trick, swindle, cheat

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Winnow

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To drive, blow away

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Exult

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To rejoice, extreme happiness

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Cabal

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Small group of secret plotters

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Tawdry

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Gaudy, cheap, showy

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Unremitting

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Not slackening or abating, incessant

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Taut

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Emotionally or mentally strained or tense

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Unequivocal

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Absolute, unqualified

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Rhetoric

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Persuasive use of language

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Surfeit

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Excessive amount, exceeded

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Juxtapose

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To put side by side

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Phlegmatic

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Sluggish and unemotional in temperament

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Apathy

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Lack of concern, interest, or emotion

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Penurious

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extremely frugal, stingy, curmudgeon

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frugal

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spending little, thirfty

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thereafter

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after that in time, sequence

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transcend

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surperior, surpass, excel

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abash

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to destroy the self-confidence

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taciturn

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inclined to silence, reserved in speech

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ancillary

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subordinate, subsidiary, assisting

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taxonomy

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science of classification

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accost

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approach, especially with a greeting

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convene

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to meet, to come together, to assemble

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tangential

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digressing, diverting

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culmination

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climax, final stage

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exobitant

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extravagant, greater than reasonable

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mitigate

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to make less severe, to relieve

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squelch

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to put down, suppress, silence

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alacrity

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promptness, speed

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recriminate

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to accuse, often in response to an accusation

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avow

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to declare frankly or openly

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exacerbate

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to make worse or more sever

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delineate

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to outline, describe