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EN words 📘 Flashcards

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Vary

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A variation.

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Blasé

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Boring, tedious.

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Paradox

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A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.

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Pristine

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Not spoiled, corrupted, or polluted. Also known as clean.

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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped or extended. A helical spring is malleable since it can be extended.

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Prodigy

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Something amazing or talented.

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Suburb

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An outlying part of a city or town.

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Pupil

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A student.

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Justification

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To prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable.

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To ruminate something

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Keep getting over something. Keep thinking about it repeatedly.

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Amalgamation

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The action or process of uniting or merging two or more things.

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Memorandum

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A written reminder.

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Cargo

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The goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship, airplane, or vehicle.

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Fang

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A long, sharp tooth.

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Sinister

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Dark, eerie.

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Effort

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Hard work.

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Certain

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Fixed, settled.

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Confidence

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A feeling or consciousness of one’s powers or of reliance on one’s circumstances.

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Vocabulary

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A feeling or consciousness of one’s powers or of reliance on one’s circumstances.

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Unintentional

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Not on purpose.

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Tedious

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Boring, synonym for blasé.

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Recess

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A break.

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Leisure

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Period of time in which you are free.

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Mere

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Nothing more then.

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Entrepreneur

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One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.

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Infinity

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Something that never ends.

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Reconcile

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To reunite with something or someone.

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To determine something

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Something that’s decided.

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Mundain

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As usual.

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Discrepancy

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Tegenstrijdigheid

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Apprentice

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Student, someone that helps.

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Deliberate

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Something on purpose.

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Jettison

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To get rid of something.

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Flawed

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Something that’s wrong.

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To consolidate something

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To make something stronger.

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Conviction

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a strong persuasion or belief, or believing something.

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Contradiction

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Something on the opposite side.

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Quasi

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Almost, just like that.

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Forager

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A collector.

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Decimation

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To reduce drastically especially in number.

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Courtship

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When a male is trying to find a female.

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Realm

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Kingdom, domain.

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To comprehend something

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To realize something.

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Hegemony

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Heerschappij

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Sophisticated

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Something hard.

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Courtship

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Verleiding

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Eerie

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Spooky, haunting.

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Allegedly

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Accused, not proven yet.

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Ludicrous

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Crazy, weird.

50
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Syllabus

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A summary.

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Obsolete

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No longer in use.

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Weening

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When baby’s still drink milk from their mom.

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Leap

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A jump forward.

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Repository

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A magazine.

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To debrief

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Giving an update on a subject, action or a situation.

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Savage

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Something or someone wild.

57
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To expire

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“He expired yesterday” means that he died yesterday.

58
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To beg a question

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Een vraag uit een gebeurtenis of conclusie halen.

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Proverb

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A saying.

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Pococurante

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Nonchalant, relaxed.

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Affluent

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Having an abundance of goods or riches.

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Immaculate

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Having or containing no flaw or error.

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Feat

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An act or deed.

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Wage

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A payment usually of money for labor or services.

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Lustrous

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Shiny.

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Culprit

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A guilty person.

67
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Phrenology

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The study of the conformation of the skull based on the belief that it is indicative of mental faculties and character.

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Dialated

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Widened.

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Synapse

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The point at which a nervous impulse passes from one neuron to another.

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Irretrievable

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Impossible to regain or recover.

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Irretrievable

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Impossible to regain or recover.

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Seren

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Completely relaxed.

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Decoy

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Something you lure someone.

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Flux

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Vloed, iets wat blijft stromen.

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Hearsay

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A rumor, no proof of it.

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Subsequent

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Opvolgend. Following in time, order, or place.

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Frenzy

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A temporary madness.

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Narato

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Naar verhouding.

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Asset

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The entire property of a person, association, corporation, or estate applicable or subject to the payment of debts.

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Olfactory

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The part in your brain where smell is being processed.

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Primordial

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First created or developed.

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Veracity

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The truth.

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Emissary

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A secret agent.

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Cohesive

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Causing parts or members to unify or stick together.

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Frission

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A brief moment of emotional excitement.

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Reprove

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Correct usually gently or with kindly intent.

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Omnipotent

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Having absolute power over all.

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Brief

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A short period of time.

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Slant

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Schijn gepositioneerd.

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Manufacturing

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Vervaardigen, produceren.

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Manufacturing

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Vervaardigen, produceren.

92
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Ambiance

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The typical atmosphere, feeling, or mood of a place.
The new restaurant became popular for its ambiance as well as for its food
and drink.

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Abide

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To patiently wait or tolerate. To abide is to endure; to bear or accept a person
or condition; to withstand or persevere. In the old days, it meant to live
or reside in a place; one would “abide” in an “abode.” While you may abide
someone or something, you really don’t want that person or thing by your
side.

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Abrogate

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To formally (and with authority) repeal or cancel something, such as an
agreement or a contract. To take official action
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Absolve

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To publicly or formally pronounce someone guiltless and blameless. To
release someone from any responsibility for an alleged misdeed or, for a
priest, to forgive them of sins. When a crime is solved, some are absolved,
while the guilty parties are arrested or jailed.

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Pejorative

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Critical or disapproving; disparaging. A word or phrase that defames.

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Archiac

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Oeroud.

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Succinct

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Samengevat

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Eloquent

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Iemand die zich heel goed kan uitdrukken met woorden

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