Derivatives #76-100 Flashcards

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Salvable

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ADJ capable of being strong, savable

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Salubrious

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ADJ Healthy, pleasurable, enjoyable

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Salve

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N a healthy ointment

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Magnate

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N great importance in industry, successful in business

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Enumerate

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V to count out, list by number

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Virulent

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ADJ actively poisonous, venomous, spiteful

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Demur

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V make an objection on moral grounds

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Demure

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ADJ modest, reserved

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Vitiate

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V to make flawed, spoil

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Quidnunc

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N a gossip

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Corset

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N a close-fitting undergarment; light armour

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Internecine

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ADJ conflict / killing within a group; great slaughter

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Pernicious

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ADJ harmful, deadly, hurtful

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Sententious

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ADJ full of thoughts, condescending

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Actuate

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V to put in motion

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Docile

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ADJ taught, tame, not wild

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Indoctrinate

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V to teach, instruct in a set of beliefs

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Scrivener

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N a writer, scribe

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Vanquish

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Verb

To conquer or subdue by force

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Verity/veritable

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Noun/adj

Truth, true, real, truthful

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Captious

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Adj

Exaggerating trivial defects, fault finding

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Prevalent

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Adj

Stronger before others, of wide extent or ocurance

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Factotum

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Noun

A doer, someone who does it all, one with many responsibilities

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Victual

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Noun

Food

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Contravene

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Verb

To come up against, to oppose, to violate, to infringe

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Premonition

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Noun

Forewarning, omen