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Enska DD Flashcards

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Lumens

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A measurement of brightness of light

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Illuminate

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To light up, to make something complicated easier

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Luminary

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Someone who is a leader

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Bioluminescence

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Light produced by a living thing, such as a firefly

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Lucid

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Clear and understandable

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Elucidate

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To make something more clear

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Pellucid

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Letting light through completely and clearly, easy to understand

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Transcend

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Go beyond

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Abject

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Total and hopeless

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Conjecture

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Speculation

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Eject

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Throw out of, like a pilot from a plane

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Inject

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To shoot into something

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Objective

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Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions

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Projectile

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Something being thrown, like an arrow

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Reject

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To fail to accept or to throw back

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Subjective

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Based in n or influenced by personal feelings, tastes or opinions

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Trajectory

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Curved path of something that has been thrown

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Ten/Tain

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Hold

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Contain

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To hold or hold back

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Contend

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To try or struggle in a contest or against difficulties

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Content

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Something contained

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Contentious

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Causing or likely to cause an argument

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Detain

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To hold or keep, as in custody, or to be held back

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Intensity

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The strength or quantity of something

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Retain

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To keep in one place

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Tenacity

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The Condition of holding on to something

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E

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Out or away from

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Eject

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To throw out of

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Erase

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To wipe out or make disappear

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Evaporate

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To change into invincible vapour, to disappear, quickly and completely

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Emote

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To show feeling outwardly

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Ex

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Away from

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Exhaust

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To use entirely

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Express

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To send out a message usually in words

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Explode

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To burst forth suddenly and violently from energy

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Expand

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To open out, spread out

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Export

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Ship out to another place

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Extinct

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No longer existing

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Exoskeleton

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Hard supporting structure that is on outside of an animal

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Excessive

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Going outside a limit

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Exit

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A door that leads out of a public place

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Exude

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To ooze or send out or spread in all directions

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Vertical

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Perpendicular to the place of the horizon or to a primary axis

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Vertigo

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Dizzy, confused state of mind

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Vertebrate

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Animal with a backbone

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Invert

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To turn inside out or upside down

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Vert

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Turn or twist

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Convert

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To turn from one thing to another

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Revert

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To turn back to an earlier state or condition

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Controversial

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The subject of argument or dispute, turning people against each other

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Introvert

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A person who is shy and reserved and keeps to themselves

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Extrovert

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A person who is outgoing

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Avert

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To turn away to see something coming and avoid it

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Adverse

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Turning against what is wanted

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Adversity

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Conditions that make things harder or turn against you

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Subversive

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Trying to undermine or overthrow

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Diverse

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Different; made up of different kinds of things or people

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Vol

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Wish or will

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Volunteer

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To offer to serve without pay or reward

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Voluntary

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Done by free choice

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Volition

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The act of choosing to do something

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Benevolent

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Intending good things to happen, bene means good

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Malevolent

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Intending bad things to happen, mal means bad

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Mortal

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Subject to death or causing death

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Immortal

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Never dying, living forever

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Mortuary

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Funeral home

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Mortify

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To embarrass or humiliate completely

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Mortician

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Someone who prepares a body for funeral

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Post mortem

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Examination of a body after death

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Rigorous mortis

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The rigidity of a body that happens after death

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Lev

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Raise up, to rise or make lighter

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Elevate

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To raise up or go up

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Elevator

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A cage or platform for taking things or people up and down in a building

74
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Lever

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A bar used for prying or moving something up

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Levity

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Light heartedness

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Leverage

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The action of a lever, pushing something, the power to make things happen

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Levitate

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To rise into the air, especially in seeming defiance of gravity

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Levee

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An embankment built up prevent or confine floods

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Alleviate

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To lighten or make more bearable

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Relieve

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To free from a burden or problem, to release from a duty or position, or replace someone

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Dispel

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To drive away or scatter away

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Expel

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To push out or away, often permanently

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Pulse

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A throbbing beat, to throb or move in rhythm

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Propel

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Drive or push something forwards

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Propeller

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A device with a hub in the middle and twisted blades around it, which is used to make a boat, airplane or helicopter move

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Compel

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To push someone or something to do something

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Impel

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To get something going, whether getting a thing moving or a person to do an action

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Impulsive

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Likely to do whatever one gets urged to do, right away

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Compulsion

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An irresistible urge to do something that doesn’t really make sense

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Compulsory

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Required by rules or regulations

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Repel

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To prevent something from approaching

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Repulsive

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Tending to repeal, especially by causing aversion or disgust

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