Deck Flashcards
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Antediluvian
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Ancient or extremely old-fashioned
2
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Dissemble
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Conceal true motives, feelings, or beliefs
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Puckish
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playful, especially in a mischievous way
4
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Triage
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Assign degrees of urgency to
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Chary
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Cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something
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Metastasize
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Spread
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Sangfroid
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Composure or coolness
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Vainglorious
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Excessively proud, overly vain
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Expatiate
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Explain or speak about at length or in detail
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Martial
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Warlike
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arcadian
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Rustic, peaceful, and simple, pastoral
12
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Hinterland
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Backwater or rural place
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Tony
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Fashionable among the wealthy or stylish
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Spartan
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Indifferent to comfort or luxury
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Licentious
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Sexually Unrestrained
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Effete
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No longer fertile, lacking in vitality or strength, effeminate, marked by weakness
17
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Immigrate
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Emphasize someone going to a new country
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Emigrate
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Emphasize someone leaving a country
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Decamp
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Leave hurriedly
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Sartorial
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Related to clothes
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Plum
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Good
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Theatrical
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Overly dramatic, or relating to theater
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Pique
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Resentment due to an insult
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Equity
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The quality of Being fair and impartial
25
Tortuous
Full of twists and turns
26
Blandish
To flatter someone into doing something; cajole
27
Tarry
Loiter, delay leaving a place
28
Sobriquet
Nickname
29
Appellation
Name or title
30
Subsidy
Money from the government
31
Depose
1) Remove from office suddenly or forcefully
| 2) Testify
32
Fulminate
Express vehement protest
33
Manumission, v. Manumit
Release from slavery
| V. To release from slavery; set free
34
Inter
Place in a grave Or tomb
35
Demagoguery
political activity or practices that seek support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument, intended to rouse strong negative emotion.
36
Anemic
Lacking in vitality
37
Hirsute
Hairy
38
Belletristic
Beautiful or fine writing
39
Pith
The essence of something
40
Lissome
Thin, supple, or graceful (of body)
41
Melange
Medley
42
Priggish
Self Righteously moralistic and superior
43
Philanderer
Womanizer
44
Putative
Generally considered or reputed to be
45
Coda
Ending, summary
46
Akimbo
Hands on hips
47
Hector
Bully, torment
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Inveigle
Persuade by means of flattery
49
Presage
Be a sign or warning that something bad will happen
50
Garrulous
Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters
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Artifice
Trickery or deception
52
Pulchritude
Beauty
53
Parsimony
Miserliness
54
For all
Despite
55
Semiotic
Relating to symbols and signs
56
Parlous
Full of danger, precarious
57
Bucolic
Relating to the Pleasant aspects of rural life
58
Cosmopolitan
free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
59
Wag
A person who makes jokes, a joker
60
Bombastic
Pompous and Pretentious of writing or speaking
61
Auspicious
Favorable
62
Jettison
To throw off or discard
63
Modish
In the current fashion, stylish
64
Littoral
Relating to or situated on the shore of a sea or lake
65
Senescence
Deterioration with age
66
Crepuscular
Of, resembling, or relating to twilight
67
Nettle
Irritate or annoy
68
Apposite
Appropriate
69
Au courant
Up to date
70
Stultification
To cause to become stupid
71
Terminus
Final point in space or time, station, terminal
72
Recondite
Little known, abstruse
73
Munificent
Giving or generous
74
Ponderous
Slow and weighty
75
Largess
Generosity or giving
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Obviate
Make unnecessary or unimportant
77
Efface
Erase from a service
78
Beguiled
Charmed, lured
79
Obeisance
Deferential respect
80
Peregrination
Journey or pilgrimage
81
Beatitude
Supreme blessedness
82
Officious
assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, especially with regard to petty or trivial matters.
83
Defoliate
Remove leaves from
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Puissant
Powerful or very influential
85
Appraise
Assess the value or quality of
86
Byline
The line indicating the author of the article
87
Liniment
Soothing lotion or cream
88
Exceptionable
Offensive or objectionable
89
Celerity
Swiftness of movement
90
Exegesis
Lengthy explanation or interpretation
91
Whet
Thing that stimulates appetite or desire
92
Superlative
Of the highest quality or degree
93
Cachet
The state of being respected or admired; prestige
94
Realpolitik
politics or diplomacy based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than explicit ideological notions or moral and ethical premises.
95
Raillery
Good-humored teasing
96
Wily
Skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully
97
Upshot
the final or eventual outcome or conclusion of a discussion, action, or series of events.
98
Potable
Safe to drink
99
Mercenary
(of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.
100
Rococo
(of furniture or architecture) of or characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century Continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork.
101
Baroque
relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail.
102
Blithe
showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper.
103
Picayune
Petty, worthless
104
Noisome
Having an extremely offensive smell
105
Meretricious
apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity
106
Entropy
lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.
"a marketplace where entropy reigns supreme"
107
Attenuate
Reduce the force, value or effect of
108
Nugatory
Of no value or importance
109
Niggle
cause slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, or anxiety
110
Engender
To cause or bring into being
111
Glib
(of words or the person speaking them) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow.
112
Sidereal
Relating to distant stars
113
Spendthrift
Someone who spends a lot
114
Fell
Able to inflict pain or suffering
115
Meretricious
apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity.
116
Extant
Still around, surviving
117
Sedulous
Showing dedication and diligence
118
Prosody
The study of poetry
119
Absquatulate
To run off with something
