Essential Words II Flashcards by Alex Franklin | Brainscape

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Equable

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Uniform, steady, unchanging

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Rarefy

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Make thin, pure, less dense

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Verify

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Confirm as true

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Sanctify

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Make holy

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Beneficent

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Doing good for others

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Maleficent

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Doing harm or evil

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Facile

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Easily done or understood, lacking depth or authenticity

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Facilitate

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To make easy, help to happen

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Factitious

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Artificial, made-up, fake

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Proliferate

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Multiply in number

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Vociferous

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Shouting loudly and angrily

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Effervescent

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Being bubbly, showing exhilaration

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Perfervid

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Overexcited, overwrought

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Diffidence

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Hesitant, lacking in self-confidence

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Perfidious

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Disloyal, treacherous

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Confluence

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A flowing together

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Superfluous

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Unnecessary, wasteful

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Mellifluous

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Having a smooth flow like honey

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Effluvium

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By-product, (bad) exhalation

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Gentry

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Upper class

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Gentility

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High social status, or conduct becoming of that status

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Heterogeneous

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Consisting of diverse parts

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Homogeneous

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Consisting of one substance

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Agnostic

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Someone who isn’t sure (often about God’s existence)

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Diagnosis

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Identification of (medical) causes & issues

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Prognosticate

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Predict, foretell

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Cognoscente

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Expert in a subject

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Monograph

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A written report or paper on a narrow subject

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Retrograde

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Moving backward

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Transgression

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Violation of a law or rule

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Digress

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Deviate from a subject

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Aggregate

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Collect or add up

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Congregate

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Gather together

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Egregious

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Conspicuously bad, flagrant

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Gregarious

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Sociable, companionable

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Adhere

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Stick to

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Cohesive

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Sticking or fitting together

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Abject

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Extremely bad

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Abjure

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Renounce or reject

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Adjure

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Command, urge

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Neologism

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New word or expression

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Eulogy

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Speech of praise (often after death)

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Circumlocution

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Wordiness or evasion in speech

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Elocution

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Art of speaking well in public

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Loquacious

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Very talkative

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Lucid

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Clear, sane, full of light

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Elucidate

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Make clear, explain

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Translucent

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Permitting (some) passage of light

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Pellucid

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Absolutely clear

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Lackluster

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Dull, lacking brilliance