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Essential Words XV Flashcards

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Savor

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A characteristic taste of flavor (usually pleasant); appreciate fully, taste or smell with pleasure

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Scant

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Not enough or barely enough

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Scathing

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Severe, injurious; bitterly harsh or critical

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Secular

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Not religious or holy; pertaining to worldly things

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Sedulous

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Persevering, persistent, diligent in one’s efforts

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Sentient

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Conscious; experiencing sensation or perceiving with the senses

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Simultaneous

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At the same time

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Skeptic

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Person inclined to doubting or questioning generally accepted beliefs

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Skirt

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Border, lie along the edge of, go around; evade

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Slack

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Loose, negligent, lazy, weak; neglect to do one’s duties; loosen up, relax; period of little

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Slew

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A large number or quantity

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Slight

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Small not very important, slender or delicate; treat as though not very important; snub, ignore; an act of treating in this way, a discourtesy

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Solicitous

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Concerned or anxious (about another person), expressing care; eager or desirous; very careful

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Soporific

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Causing sleep; sleepy, drowsy; something that causes sleep

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Sound

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Measure the depth of (usually of water) as with a sounding line; penetrate and discover the meaning of, understand (usually as sound the depths)

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Spartan

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Very disciplined and stern; frugal, living simply, austere; suggestive of the ancient Spartans

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Spate

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Sudden outpouring or rush; flood

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Spearhead

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Be the leader of

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Specious

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Seemingly true but actually false; deceptively attractive

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Spectrum

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A broad range of nevertheless related quality or ideas, esp. those that overlap to create a continuous series (as in a color spectrum, where each color blends into the next in a continuous way)

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Speculate

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Contemplate; make a guess or educated guess about; engage in a risky business transaction, gamble

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Sporadic

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Occasional, happening irregularly or in scattered locations

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Sportive

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Playful, merry, joking around, done “in sport” (rather than intended seriously)

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Standing

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Status, rank, reputation; existing indefinitely, not movable

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Stark

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Complete, total, utter; harsh or grim; extremely simple, severe, blunt, or plain

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Static

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Fixed, not moving or changing, lacking vitality

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Status quo

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Existing state or condition

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Stingy

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Not generous with money, reluctant to spend or give

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Stoic or stoical

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Indifferent to pleasure or pain, enduring without complaint; person indifferent to pleasure or pain

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Stolid

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Unemotional, showing little emotion, not easily moved

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Stymie or stymy

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Block, hinder, or thwart; an obstacle

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Subjective

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Existing in the mind or relating to one’s own thoughts, opinions, emotions, etc.; personal, individual, based on feelings

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Subside

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Sink, settle down, become less active; return to a normal level

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Substantiate

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Support with evidence or proof; give a material existence to

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Succeeding

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Coming after or following

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Supersede

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Replace, take the position of, cause to be disregarded as void or obsolete

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Supplicate

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Pray humbly; ask, beg, or seek in a humble way

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Surfeit

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Excess, excessive amount, overindulge

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Surmise

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Guess, infer, opine

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Sycophant

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Servile flatterer, today .

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Synchronous

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Happening at the same time; occurring at the same rate and thus happening together repeatedly

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Table

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Lay aside to discuss later, often as a way to postpone discussion indefinitely

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Tacit

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Understood without being said; implied, not stated directly

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Taciturn

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Not talking much, reserved; silent, holding back in conversation

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Tangential

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Only slightly relevant, going off-topic

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Temperance

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Moderation, self-control, esp. regarding alcohol or other desires or pleasures; total abstinence from alcohol

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Tenuous

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Flimsy, having little substance; long and thin, slender

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Timely

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Well-timed, happening at a suitable time

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Timorous

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Fearful, timid

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Tirade

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Bitter, abusive criticism or verbal attack

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