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Deck 2- New York Flashcards

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1
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Confound

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To perplex or amaze especially by a sudden disturbance

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Repudiate

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To reject with denial as having no authority or binding force

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Facetious

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Not meant to be taken literally or seriously, amusing, humorous

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Patent

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Obvious, apparent, plain to see OR to establish as one’s own
Syn: clear, palpable
Her resume was full of patent lies: anyone could check to see that she was not president of UNICEF.

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Pervasive

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Spread throughout

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Prime

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Of the first importance demanding fullest consideration

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Opaque

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Not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light

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Arcane

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Known or understood by very few

Syn: Esoteric

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Laudable

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Deserving praise, commendable

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Construe

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To deduce by inference or interpretation, to give meaning or intention of

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Collude

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To act together with a secret understanding, especially with harmful intent.

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Ambiguity

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Open to or having several possible meanings

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Duplicity

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Deceitfulness in speech of conduct, speaking or acting in two different ways

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Cunning

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Adeptness in performance, dexterity, crafty, guile

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Vex

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To irritate, annoy, or provoke

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Solicitous

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Anxious or concerned, eager, careful or particular

Sentence: I am solicitous about who I chose to work with in the classroom so that I maintain my GPA.

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Munificent

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Extremely liberal in giving, very generous

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Irresolute

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Doubtful, infirm of purpose

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Resolute

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Admirably purposeful, determined

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Laconic

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Using few words, expressing much in few words

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Fastidious

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Excessively particular, critical, or demanding

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Taciturn

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Inclined to silence, reserved in speech

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Mendacity

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Tendency to lie, untruthfulness

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Prevarication

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To speak falsely or misleadingly, deliberately misstate, lie

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Baseness

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Morally low, dishonorable, coward

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Avarice

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Insatiable greed for riches

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Dubious

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Doubtful

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Judicious

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Using or showing good judgment

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Defiant

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Boldly resistant or challenging

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Jettison

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To cast goods overboard in order to lighten OR to throw off as an obstacle; discard

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Pedestrian

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Lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, and dull or common place

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Lament

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To feel or express sorrow or regret for

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Propagate

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To cause to increase or reproduce
Multiply, diffuse
The plant propagates from stem cutting.

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Blight

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Any cause of impairment; destruction or ruin

Sent: Traffic is the blighting my existence.

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Pristine

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Having its original purity

36
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Apposite

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Suitable, well-adapted, relevant, appropriate

It was apposite for him to wait in line for his turn like everybody else.

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Ahistorical

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Indifferent to tradition, without concern for history

38
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Anachronism

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Not in it’s correct or chronological time

39
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Germane

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Closely or significantly related, relevant, pertinent

40
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Irascible

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Easily provoked to anger, very irritable. Characterized or produced by anger

41
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Pugnacious

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Inclined to quarrel or fight readily, quarrelsome, belligerent

42
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Inscrutable

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Not easily understood, mysterious, incapable of being investigated; impenetrable

43
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Underscore

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To emphasize or stress

44
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Eminence

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Fame or recognized superiority

45
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Providential

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Occurring at a favorable time; involving divine foresight

46
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Notoriety

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Being known for something unfavorable

47
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Precarious

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Dependent on chance, not securely held in position

48
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Profligate

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Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources; a dissolute person

49
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Dissolute

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Lax in morals

50
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Sidereal

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Having to do with stars

51
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Intransigent

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Stubbornly refusing to compromise

52
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Execrable

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Bad, unpleasant

53
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Consummate

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High degree of skill or flair, complete or perfect

54
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Bombastic

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Ostentatiously loft in style

55
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Scant

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Barely sufficient or adequate

56
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Undue

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Unwarranted or inappropriate because excessive or disproportionate

57
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Prodigious

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Remarkably or excessive great in size or degree

Syn: marvelous, enormous

58
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Inure

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Accustomed to something

59
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Stolidity

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Emotionless

60
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Etiolated

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To cause to appear pale or sickly

61
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Quotidian

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Of or occurring everyday

62
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Recalcitrant

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Stubborn resistance to authority

63
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Amorphous

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Without a clearly defined shape or form

64
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Tautology

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Saying the same thing twice in different ways, redundancy, needles repetition of an idea

65
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Quandary

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Uncertainty over what to do

66
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Prestidigitation

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Sleight of hand

Sent: Houdini’s powers of prestidigitation remain legendary to this day.

67
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Peroration

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Concluding part of a speech, meant to inspire the audience

68
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Pernicious

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Having a harmful effect

Syn: noxious, baneful

69
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Complaisant

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Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please

JEFF

70
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Recast

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To give something a different form

71
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Austere

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Severe, strict, harsh

72
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Calumnious

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Harmful and often untrue, tending to discredit

73
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Impertinent

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Rude, not showing proper respect, irrelevant

74
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Maladroit

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Ineffective, clumsy

75
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Tyro

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Beginner or novice

76
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Demagogue

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A political leader who seeks support by appealing to ppl’s desires

77
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Officious

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Assertive of authority in an annoying manner (especially in regard to petty matters)

78
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Mercurial

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Subject to sudden changes, changeable, volatile, animated, lively

79
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Prescient

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Having or showing knowledge of event before they take place

Syn: foresight, provident

80
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Peurile

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Juvenile, belonging to childhood, immature

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