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English 2: S2 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Vindicate

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v) to clear of suspicion or blame; to justify or support

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Reticent

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adj) reserved; reluctant; discreet

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Temerity

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n) recklessness boldness; rashness; foolhardiness

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Fervid

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adj) giving off intense heat; impassioned enthusiastic

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Foment

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v) to foster trouble, rebellion, or strife; to stir up; to incite

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Solicitous

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adj) showing concern or worry; anxiously concerned; eager

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Auspices

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n) approval and support; patronage

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Hiatus

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n) a space where something is missing; any break in continuity

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Clandestine

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adj) concealed, usually for a forbidden purpose; secret; covert

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Vestige

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n) a slight remnant; a trace of something that no longer exists; a minute quality

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Propensity

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n) a natural tendency or ability

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Recant

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v) to take a back formally or publicly; to withdraw or retract an opinion expressed in the past

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Contingency

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n) a possible happening; a chance event; something that depends on chance or uncertain conditions

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Litigation

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n) the carrying on of a lawsuit; a lawsuit

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Retaliate

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v) to return an injury for an injury; to get even

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Calumny

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n) a false statement made to injure someone’s reputation; slander

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Sedentary

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adj) used to sitting much of the time; moving little and rarely; staying in one place

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Impassive

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adj) not feeling or showing emotion

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Repudiated

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v) to completely reject; to disown; to refuse to accept

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Mollify

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v) to soothe the temper of; to appease; to pacify

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Extricate

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v) to release from an entanglement or a difficulty; to set free

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Menial

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adj) of or suited to a servant; servile

n) a domestic servant; a servile person

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Rampant

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adj) growing without check or restraint; flourishing; widespread

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Cajole

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v) to persuade by pleasant words; to coax with flattery and insincere talk; to wheedle

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Pestilence

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n) a contagious and often fatal disease that spreads rapidly; an illness of epidemic proportions; a destructive or evil influence or factor

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Anarchy

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n) the absence of government or law; political disorder

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Nadir

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n) the point in the celestial sphere directly below the observer and opposite the zenith; the lowest possible point

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Ethnology

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n) the branch of anthropology that deals with recent societies or language groups, their distribution, characteristics, and cultures

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Impaired

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v) to make worse; to damage or weaken

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Commodious

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adj) roomy; spacious

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Profuse

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adj) giving freely; extravagant; plentiful

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Virulent

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adj) very poisonous or harmful; deadly; intensely bitter or spiteful

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Strident

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adj) having or making a harsh sound; shrill

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Consign

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v) to deliver; to deliver goods to be sold; to send; to hand over; to assign to an undesirable position or place

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Elocution

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n) the art of public speaking; a style or manner of public speaking or reading

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Subversion

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n) the overthrowing or undermining of something established, such as a government

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Cadaverous

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adj) corpselike; pale and ghastly; thing and gaunt; haggard

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Incorrigible

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n) a person who will not be reformed

adj) incapable of being corrected or reformed; persistently bad

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Promulgate

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v) to make known to the public; declare; to make widespread

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Maim

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v) to wound or injure seriously; to disable in some way; to mutilate; to cripple

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perfidious

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adj) deliberately faithless; treacherous

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Illicit

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adj) forbidden by law; improper; unauthorized

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Discrepancy

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n) an inconsistently; a contradiction; a difference

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Inundated

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v) to cover by overflowing; to flood; to overwhelm (as if by flood)

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Sumptuous

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adj) costly; magnificent; luxurious; lavish

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Inscrutable

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adj) mysterious or obscure; hard to grasp; not easily understood

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Abeyance

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n) a temporary suspension of an activity; a state of being put aside for future action

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Primordial

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adj) from earliest times; primitive; fundamental; original

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Homogeneous

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adj) to the same kind or nature; composed of similar or identical parts or elemental; uniform

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Pervaded

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v) to extend all over; to spread or be diffused throughout

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Harbinger

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v) to announce; to indicate what will follow

n) a forerunner; a herald

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Emanated

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v) to issue from; to originate from

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Demagogue

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n) a leader who stirs up people by appealing to their emotions; a rabblerouser

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Prevaricated

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v) to evade the truth

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Detriment

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n) damage; harm; injury; anything that causes damage or injury

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Obnoxious

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adj) very disagreeable; highly offensive; hateful

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Chastise

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v) to punish; to criticize severely; to scold

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Irrevocable

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adj) not capable of being retracted, recalled, or withdrawn; unalterable

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Deplore

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v) to feel very sorry about; to regret deeply; to lament; to disapprove of

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Interceded

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v) to plead, or petition, on another’s behalf; to act as a mediator in a dispute

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Gregarious

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adj) outgoing; sociable

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Exhilaration

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n) highly spirit; invigoration; excitement

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Patrimony

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n) an inheritance from one’s father or ancestors any heritage or legacy

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Obsequious

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adj) too ready to please, praise, or obey; servile; fawning

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Civility

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n) politeness; courtesy. a polite action

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Germane

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adj) pertinent; to the point; truly relevant

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Punctilious

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adj) paying attention to the fine details of etiquette; meticulous; scrupulous; very exact

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Foible

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n) a minor weakness or fault; a minor but persistent personal failing; a shortcoming

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Connoisseur

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n) someone who is an expert in some field, especially in art or in matters of taste

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Precocious

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adj) showing unusually early development; mature or advanced for one’s age

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Effusion

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n) a pouring forth; an unrestrained expression of feeling in talking or writing

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Querulous

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adj) complaining; faultfinding; peevish

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Indulgent

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adj) very lenient; not strict enough; making allowances

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Affront

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n) an open, intentional insult

v) to insult openly; to offend

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Propitious

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adj) favorable; favorably inclined

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Munificent

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adj) extremely generous; very liberal and lavish in giving

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Guffaw

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n) a loud or coarse burst of laughter; a horselaugh

v) to laugh loudly or coarsely

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Capitulate

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v) to surrender on certain terms; to give up; to stop resisting

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Incarcerate

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v) to imprison; to confine

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Magnanimous

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adj) noble in spirit; generous in forgiving; unselfish; rising above petty, mean concerns

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Artifice

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n) a skill; a clever device; a sly or artful trick; trickery

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Configuration

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n) the position of parts or elements of something; a shape; an outline

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Scrupulous

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adj) giving strict attention to what is right or proper; exact and careful

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Deduce

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v) to infer by reasoning; to conclude from known facts and principles

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Refute

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v) to prove that someone or something is false or incorrect; to disapprove

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Captivate

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v) to catch the attention of, by beauty or excellence; to enchant; to charm; to attract

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Proponent

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n) a person who supports a cause or idea; someone who makes a proposition; an advocate

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Extant

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adj) still in existence; not extinct, lost, or destroyed

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Chicanery

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n) the use of clever talk or trickery to deceive or evade

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Augury

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n) the practice of foretelling the future from signs and omens; an omen or sign

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Corroborates

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v) to support or strengthen an idea or a statement; to attest to the truth of; to confirm

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Aberration

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n) a departure from the usual course; a deviation; an abnormal development

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Herculean

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adj) extremely demanding or difficult; requiring or having great courage or strength, like that possessed by Hercules

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Retrospect

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n) a contemplation or survey of things that happened in the past

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Dearth

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n) a scarcity, as of food; a lack; too small a supply of something

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Salient

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adj) standing out; easily seen or noticed; conspicuous; noticeable; prominent

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Adjudged

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v) to decree or decide by law; to pass sentence

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Diurnal

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adj) occurring every day; daily; occurring during the daytime

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Candor

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n) openness; saying what one really thinks; frankness; impartiality

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Ludicrous

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adj) amusingly absurd; ridiculous

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