General Flashcards

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Solicitude

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Soliciting Tubes that spit out hearts

Showing caring for others.

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Perdition

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Soulless. State that Unpenitent people pass into when they refuse to confess their sins. Going to hell.

Picture someone holding a dish that purrrs with a shin on it serving people in hell.

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Insouciant

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free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant

Image: Ginsu knife and an ant Ginsus-ant

A Ginsu knife is about to drop on an ant and the ant couldn’t careless. It is not anxious at all.

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Extirpate

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To destroy completely or wipeout

Woman striping an X from her plate as a Ghostbuster comes in an exterminates the plate and the X

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Antipodal

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Diametrically opposite, opposite end of the pole

Anti means opposite picture and pole with an iPod one end. Whichever side you go to the iPod appears on the other side

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Ephemeral

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lasting for a very short time.

Picture Emeral coming on in front of an Audience then leaving right away. After he leaves the audience sticks up the middle finger and says F Emeral

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Pillory

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Pillory is a public scorning
It is a wooden framework with holes in it for your hands and your head.

Picture a bunch of pills with holes in the being thrown like stone at someone who’s head and hands are in the pillory

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Mellifluous

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Sweet flowing music, words, sounds.

Picture Mel Lastman with the flu when he sneezes he spits out honey into the air and then honey is running out of his nose while Gollum runs around his hugging and possessing the honey that leaves his body

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Inveterate

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To habituate to deeply root a habit

Picture a War Vet eating a plate of nuns habits and roots that are very thin at one end (the deepest roots)

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Plangent

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Resounding, loud, pounding sound

Picture a distinguished British gentleman growing out of a flower pot pounding on a gong. Every time he hits it he recoils from the sound but just continues pounding it

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Peripatetic

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Nomadic, itinerant, moving from place to place

Picture an “A” like a cat purring with a pet tic while the a points to different location on a map that him and the cat are going to live over the next few years

peripatetic Translate Button
[per-uh-puh-tet-ik] 
adjective
1.
walking or traveling about; itinerant.
2.
(initial capital letter) of or relating to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.

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Itinerant

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Nomadic, roaming from place to place

Picture a tin with my face on it being moved on a map from location to location similar to what a general does when planning a war (with soldiers etc)

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Hirsute

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Shaggy, long in hair

Picture a hairy suit. Put whatever is hirsute in the hairy suit.

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Compunction

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anxiety arising because of awareness of quilt

Sean Schu dressing like Sid Viscous (punk sean) stealing a cookie from the cookie jar and looking very nervous and guilty (biting his nails)

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Baleful

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Full of sinister meaning, ominous

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Pernicious

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Full of sinister meaning, ominous

Pernicious sounds like furnish us. The stuffed room of people are given free chairs but on the back they have the devil. Evil behind the gesture.

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Baleful

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adj. full of sinister influence, pernicious, ominous A bale full of Devils.

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Hallow

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v. to set apart as holy, to sanctify

Hollow with a cross in it

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unctuous

uhngk-choo-uhs

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adj. oily, greasy

adj. characterized by insincere earnestness

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Unctuous

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adj. oily, greasy
adj. characterized by insincere earnestness Picture a truck chewing “the us from ous suffix” and turning the group into oil

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fecundity

fih-kuhn-dih-tee

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Fruitfulness, producing offspring or referring to creativity

Fucking D Tee. Picture a golf swearing at his tee snapped like D because every time he goes to hit his golf ball the impact causes fruit to explode for the tee. But he just wants to hit his ball

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Sanguine

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adj. cheerfully optimistic

Samantha had a sanguine attitude towards life that enriched those around her.

Picture Tyler Seguin in and interview talking about how good his prospects and his teams prospects are of winning the cup. FUCKING SEGUIN

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Quotidian

kwoh-tid-ee-uhn

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adj. everyday, commonplace, habitual
Quote and idiot. Picture myself quoting Homer Simpson in the mirror while brushing my teeth.
Joe’s small, quotidian pleasures seemed more substantial than Mattias’s high-profile jet-setting.

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Tedium

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Boring. Tedious. Teddy with UM on its chest saying Ummmmm. I’m board!

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Approbate

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Approve. Approbate by a judge.

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Timorous

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Showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence.

Tim Hortons Toys or Us customer who is carry bags and coffee. If you say any thing to him he immediately spills the coffee all over himself and throws his shopping in the air.

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Analog

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An ant on a log

Noun
ant on the log has a chicken in one hand and an egg in the other. He is looking at both and comparing the two.

Adjective
Ant on a log is being judged continuously for his ability to stay on the log. He is looking at his score going up and down as he goes. Afterwards he looks at a graph of his score over time going up and down.

Continuously being compared to another variable physical quantity such as spatial position or voltage.

An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature (variable) of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal. For example, in an analog audio signal, the instantaneous voltage of the signal varies continuously with the pressure of the sound waves. It differs from a digital signal, in which a continuous quantity is represented by a discrete function which can only take on one of a finite number of values.

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upbraid

uhp-breyd

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Picture a girl having her ponytail being braided my her mother on the floor above. When she looks up her mother is scolding her and waging her finger at her.

Question 29

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Banality

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The fact or condition of being banal; unoriginal.
Something that is banal. BORING.

Version 1: Ban All Itties - Picture a man standing up in front of a bar crowd trying to ban all small tities and the crowd is yawning and bored.

Question 30

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Banality

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The fact or condition of being banal; unoriginal.
Something that is banal. BORING.

Version 2: A man is in front of a crowd booming that he would like to ban all small titties (offensive but works to cue image). He is preaching to a crowd or people “BORED” out of their minds. So bored they have fallen asleep and you can see “Zzzz” coming from everyone’s as they rest.

Version 1: Ban All Itties - Picture a man standing up in front of a bar crowd trying to ban all small tities and the crowd is yawning and bored.

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Erstwhile

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Formerly, old past, sometimes, ex

Hurst file (file folder with a hurst in it). Picture an old hurst and a new hurst together in a funeral home parking lot. A large hand comes down and picks the old hurst up and puts it into a file folder.

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Emollient

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A mole pouring E’s into the washing machine after the soap.

Emollient = softening

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Venal

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Picture Vino a wise guy paying people off and generally being corrupt

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Espouse

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A Spouse. To take as a spouse.

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Perfidy

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Cat eating a fig in a cup of tea that he stole from his masters plate at the table.

Perr fig tea = betrayal of trust

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Facetious

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Humorous with a sarcastic tone. Treating serious issues with humour deliberately.

Face Eating parts of a Group of people (Face Eat Us) - then the face points at the screaming bodies, laughs and makes a joke.

Synonyms inappropriate humor; flippant.

synonyms: flippant, flip, glib, frivolous, tongue-in-cheek, ironic, sardonic, joking, jokey, jocular, playful, sportive, teasing, mischievous; More
antonyms: serious

Question 37

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Perspicacity

http://youtu.be/jvl5OQLrba0

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Cat spitting at a city. Per spit(k) a city.

A very large cat sitting next to a city see a small citizen out of the corner of his eye trying to leave the city. The cat spits and pegs the man bang on. Keen eye.

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Placid

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Calm, peaceful, little movement or activity.

Plastic acid pour onto a riot. Burns everything in sight until the streets are free from disturbance.

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Quiescent

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Looking at a picture of a kiwi hunting a snake (kiwi Sss Hunt) but the artist has painted the scene so quiet and tranquil.

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Rancor

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1.
bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.

Running eating an apple core and spazzing out on people as he goes by, telling them he hates them and wishes they were dead

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Sagacious

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Shrewd insightful.

Two gay guys saying “say gay to us” to 5 big looking bigots. The bigots can’t believe their luck but little do they know they are at the corner of church and woods

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Preternatural

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Beyond what is normal or natural.

Praying to nut shell. While everyone else is starring at you.

Question 43

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Rebus

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A riddle in which words are represented by picture.

Re:(insert bus picture here)

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Rebus

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A riddle in which words are represented by picture.

Re:(insert bus picture here)

Picture a school bus re-busing “pictures” for a school bus full of words. The busers say to one another they want the picture to represent the words.

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Jibe

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Agree.

V2: Jibe sounds like vibe or vibrate. Picture a “J” vibrating and trying to nod its head at the same time in agreement. Is his response really being expressed with all the vibration?

Version 1: 70s funk. “You jibe me”?
Not good. Not good. Does not follow three rules and was a lazy attempt at the end of a longer session (stop making excuses and do it right!!!) lol.

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Abrogate

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To abolish or annul by authority.

A bro standing in a gate ripping up a picture of a couple getting married.

pledging to abolish Apples if he is elected.

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Stentorian

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Extremely Loud and powerful.

Picture a centurion playing extremely loud music that is blowing people away.

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Tacit (Tass-it)

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Implied it Unspoken

Toss it. Picture someone pretending to toss something.

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Exculpate

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Free from blame.

This does not take into account all three things that you need to remember something. Code, action and location. There is a code for the word cue but there is no action taken by that image on the definition it is simply a static image. That is why there is not recall with regards to this card!
Version 1. X on a skull on a plate with an open pair of hand cuffs on it.

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Exigent

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Requiring immediate attention pressing demanding

Picture a British Gentleman excusing himself and leaving due to a pressing appointment.

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Churl

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A rude or cheap person.

Picture someone trying to pay for something with a curl of hair. Then when they are told a curl will buy them nothing they throw it on the floor and spit.

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Cleave

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To cut off with force
To be loyal
To develop an emotional bond

Version 2.

Key Leave is what image “Cleave” causes to first pop into my mind. So now what to do with the image of a key leaving? Let’s see how picturing a key chain where one key is trying to leave the group in the chain. The key struggles to leave but can’t break free. Then picture a knife chopping down on what is holding it to the chain. The key is freed and leaves. The other keys all cry with emotion due to the “bond” they had with their former friend. He sends money home to them from wherever he is. He is a loyal key but he just needed to go.
- this explanation should cover all bases cut from, emotional bond and loyalty but you won’t know until next time and repetition let me know if it will stick

Version 1. Picture chopping something when you almost cut off your finger when the knife stops out of loyalty to you and as a reward you pet the knife like it was your dog. Weird.
- version does not work because the idea is to create an image based what comes to mind on first hearing it not what you already know the meaning to be. The image of that first comes to mind needs to have nothing to do with the answer so then when linked to the answer it creates some outrageous and memorable scene or connection

Notes
This is always harder to do with something you already know. Already formed association fuck up the image.

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Olfaction

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Smell.

An old face holding their nose.

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maladroit

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Clumsy, Bungling, ineffective

Picture a mall of droids tripping over each other. bumping in to walls and trying to attempt a task but fucking it all up

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Iterative

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Iteration is the act of repeating a process with the aim of approaching a desired goal, target or result. It is also known as Amiration. Each repetition of the process is also called an “iteration”, and the results of one iteration are used as the starting point for the next iteration.

Sitar being played by an Asian he plays a little sitar then tries to throw a ping pong ball into a garbage receptacle. Repeat.

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parochial

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pəˈrōkēəl/
adjective
of or relating to a church parish.
“the parochial church council”
having a limited or narrow outlook or scope.
“this worldview seems incredibly naive and parochial”
synonyms: narrow-minded, small-minded, provincial, narrow, small-town, conservative, illiberal, intolerant; informaljerkwater
“she was constantly challenging their parochial approach to education”

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Voracity

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Wanting or devouring great quantities

4 Aces just devouring a feast like Rocket Robin Hood throwing the food into their mouths and over their shoulders.

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sys·tem·ic
səˈstemik/
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adjective: systemic

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sys·tem·ic
səˈstemik/
adjective
adjective: systemic
1.
of or relating to a system, especially as opposed to a particular part.
“the disease is localized rather than systemic”
(of an insecticide, fungicide, or similar substance) entering the plant via the roots or shoots and passing through the tissues.
2.
PHYSIOLOGY
denoting the part of the circulatory system concerned with the transportation of oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the body in general, especially as distinct from the pulmonary part concerned with the transportation of oxygen from and carbon dioxide to the lungs.

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Secularism

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Secularism is a principle that involves two basic propositions. The first is the strict separation of the state from religious institutions. The second is that people of different religions and beliefs are equal before the law.

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What is an Emirate?

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An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by a dynastic Islamic monarch styled emir. It also means principality.

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Repudiate

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Refuse to accept or associate. To deny the truth of.

Repudiate - Rep-Who-Ate

A Coca Cola rep who eats the Coca Cola logo off his uniform with someone accuses him of working for Coke.

Version 1…. A Rep (sales) eating (picture coke driver/salesman) a can of his wares when some tells him something he disagrees with he spits out the can spraying coke into the air, shaking his head and saying “no fucking way”

doesn’t make sense lol…. yikes!

Dictionary Definition:

refuse to accept or be associated with.
“she has repudiated policies associated with previous party leaders”
synonyms: reject, renounce, abandon, give up, turn one’s back on, disown, cast off, lay aside; formalforswear, abjure; literaryforsake
“he repudiated his Catholic faith”
deny the truth or validity of.
“the minister repudiated allegations of human rights abuses”
synonyms: deny, contradict, controvert, rebut, dispute, dismiss, brush aside; formalgainsay
“Hansen repudiated the allegations”
LAW
refuse to fulfill or discharge (an agreement, obligation, or debt).
“breach of a condition gives the other party the right to repudiate a contract”
synonyms: cancel, revoke, rescind, reverse, overrule, overturn, invalidate, nullify; disregard, flout, renege on; disaffirm; formalabrogate
“Egypt repudiated the treaty”

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What is a velodrome?

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A velodrome is an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights. The straights transition to the circular turn through a moderate easement curve.

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What is a palindrome?

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As sentence which meaning is the same with the words forwards as it is backwards

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward. Allowances may be made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers.

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Veneration

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Veneration (Latin veneratio or dulia, Greek δουλεία, douleia), or veneration of saints, is the act of honoring a saint, a person who has been identified as having a high degree of sanctity or holiness

Picture a country on a map being turned and opened with a squeak (like it was a vent) out of the vent slides a hallow and it hovers above the vented nation like a saint

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Recursion is the process of repeating items in a self-similar way. For instance, when the surfaces of two mirrors are exactly parallel with each other, the nested images that occur are a form of infinite recursion

Female smelling her arm pits in front of two mirrors facing each other. The images repeating itself infinitely.

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The Droste effect — known as mise en abyme in art — is the effect of a picture appearing within itself, in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear.[1] The appearance is recursive: the smaller version contains an even smaller version of the picture, and so on. Only in theory could this go on forever; practically, it continues only as long as the resolution of the picture allows, which is relatively short, since each iteration geometrically reduces the picture’s size. It is a visual example of a strange loop, a self-referential system of instancing which is the cornerstone of fractal geometry.

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mise en abyme

A draw set (crayons) being used by a pot of tea drawing a picture of miso soup being poured by a bee on me

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Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorportates technology and aesthetic design inspired by 19th Century industrial steam powered machinery.

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Showing great care of diligence. Coming from the root word assess. Synonyms are diligent, meticulous, rigorous.

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Showing or having great greed for wealth or material riches. Synonyms are acquisitive, covetous, rapacious.

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Looking like you have very important things to say

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:to present and urge reasons in opposition :expostulate —usually used with with
transitive verb
:to say or plead in protest, reproof, or opposition

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Harsh beating with a club. Verbal assault. Synonyms flogging, maceration, mortification.

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Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

Prophetic
Visionary

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that appearing beside or outside the natural, having unknown explanations

singular
uncommon
inexplicable

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To talk or hold a discussion, to fill in memory loss by fabrication

parley
confer
treat

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taking a route longer then the direct one

roundabout
serpentine
meandering

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the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist, extreme egotism

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a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin of nature, methods and limits of human knowledge

epistemic

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a person with whom someone is having a romantic or sexual relationship and especially a secret or improper relationship

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of or relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life.

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Cashiering’’’ (or ‘'’degradation ceremony’’’) generally within [[military]] forces is a [[ritual]] dismissal of an individual from some position of responsibility for a breach of [[discipline]]. From the Flemish ‘Kasseren’ the phrase entered the English language in the late 16th century, during the wars in the [[Low Countries]], although the [[Oxford English Dictionary|O.E.D.]] states that the first printed use in this sense appears in [[Shakespeare]]’s [[Othello]] (1603) it appeared in the 1594 tract The Estate of English Fugitives by [[Lewes Lewkenor]], ‘imploring his help and assistance in so hard an extremity, who for recompence, very charitably cashierd them all without the receipt of one penny.’

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Pa-Dan-Tick

Dan (myself) is the father of a tick. I am giving my son the tick a lesson regarding how to wash the dishes that is boring, slow unimaginative and delving into irrelevant minutiae.

pe·dan·tic
\pi-ˈdan-tik\
adjective
1 :of, relating to, or being a pedant(see pedant)
2 :narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned

3 :unimaginative, dull

ped·ant
\ˈpe-dənt\
noun
: a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details
Full Definition
1 obsolete :a male schoolteacher
2 a :one who makes a show of knowledge
b :one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge
c :a formalist or precisionist in teaching

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lev·i·ty
ˈlevədē/
noun
noun: levity; plural noun: levities
humor or frivolity, especially the treatment of a serious matter with humor or in a manner lacking due respect.
“as an attempt to introduce a note of levity, the words were a disastrous flop”
synonyms: lightheartedness, high spirits, vivacity, liveliness, cheerfulness, cheeriness, humor, gaiety, fun, jocularity, hilarity, frivolity, amusement, mirth, laughter, merriment, glee, comedy, wit, wittiness, jollity, joviality
“without some occasional levity, the working environment is no better than a sweatshop”
antonyms: seriousness

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ve·nal
ˈvēnl/
adjective
showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery.
“why should these venal politicians care how they are rated?”
synonyms: corrupt, corruptible, bribable, open to bribery; dishonest, dishonorable, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled; mercenary, greedy; informalcrooked
“they ran the town according to their own venal system of ‘law and order’”

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Intending to teach and having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.

When associated with a teacher it is slow patronizing delivery.

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To instill a talent or value by Persistent instruction.

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In mathematics, a nonlinear system of equations is a set of simultaneous equations in which the unknowns (or the unknown functions in the case of differential equations) appear as variables of a polynomial of degree higher than one or in the argument of a function which is not a polynomial of degree one.

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A differential equation is a mathematical equation that relates some function with its derivatives. In applications, the functions usually represent physical quantities, the derivatives represent their rates of change, and the equation defines a relationship between the two.

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The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire was the part of the Roman Empire, in which the city of Constantinople (proclaimed New Rome[n 1] , formerly Byzantium) developed into the capital by 330 AD. It began emancipation after the partition of the Empire in Western halves by Diocletian in 285 AD.[2] It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 under the reign of Mehmed the Conqueror. [3] During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe. Both “Byzantine Empire” and “Eastern Roman Empire” are historiographical terms created after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the Roman Empire (Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr. Basileia tôn Rhōmaiōn; Latin: Imperium Romanum),[4] or Romania (Ῥωμανία), and to themselves as “Romans”

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Byzantine Empire
This article is about the medieval Roman empire. For other uses, see Byzantine (disambiguation).
Byzantine Empire
Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων
Basileía Rhōmaíōna
Imperium Romanum
← Dio coin3.jpg
c. 330 – 1453b	 →

Tremissis with the image of Justinian the Great
(r. 527–565) (see Byzantine insignia)

The Empire at its greatest extent in 555 AD under
Justinian the Great (its vassals in pink)
Capital	Constantinopleb
Languages	
Latin (official until 610)
Greek (official after 610)
Religion	
Polytheism
Christianity
(tolerated after 311
state religion after 380
Eastern Orthodox after 1054)
Government	Autocratic monarchy
Emperor	
 • 	c. 330–337	Constantine I
 • 	457–474	Leo I
 • 	527–565	Justinian I
 • 	610–641	Heraclius
 • 	976–1025	Basil II
 • 	1081–1118	Alexius I
 • 	1259–1282	Michael VIII
 • 	1449–1453	Constantine XI
Historical era	Late Antiquity to Late Middle Ages
 • 	Partition of the Roman Empire	285
 • 	Founding of Constantinople	330
 • 	Death of Theodosius I	395
 • 	Nominal end of the Western Roman Empire	476
 • 	Fourth Crusade	1204
 • 	Reconquest of Constantinople	1261
 • 	Fall of Constantinople	29 May 1453
 • 	Fall of Trebizond	15 August 1461
Population
 • 	565 AD est.	26,000,000c 
 • 	780 AD est.	7,000,000 
 • 	1025 AD est.	12,000,000 
 • 	1143 AD est.	10,000,000 
 • 	1204 AD est.	9,000,000 
Currency	Solidus, Hyperpyron and Follis
a.	^ Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων may be transliterated in Latin as Basileia Rhōmaiōn, meaning Roman Empire.
b.	^ Between 1204 and 1261 there was an interregnum when the Empire was divided into the Empire of Nicaea, the Empire of Trebizond and the Despotate of Epirus, which were all contenders for rule of the Empire. The Empire of Nicaea is considered the legitimate continuation of the Byzantine Empire because they managed to re-take Constantinople.
c.	^ See Population of the Byzantine Empire for more detailed figures taken provided by McEvedy and Jones, Atlas of World Population History, 1978, as well as Angeliki E. Laiou, The Economic History of Byzantium, 2002.
The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire was the part of the Roman Empire, in which the city of Constantinople (proclaimed New Rome[n 1] , formerly Byzantium) developed into the capital by 330 AD. It began emancipation after the partition of the Empire in Western halves by Diocletian in 285 AD.[2] It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 under the reign of Mehmed the Conqueror. [3] During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe. Both "Byzantine Empire" and "Eastern Roman Empire" are historiographical terms created after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the Roman Empire (Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr. Basileia tôn Rhōmaiōn; Latin: Imperium Romanum),[4] or Romania (Ῥωμανία), and to themselves as "Romans"

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A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.

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ab·ne·ga·tion
ˌabnəˈɡāSH(ə)n/
noun
the act of renouncing or rejecting something.
“abnegation of political lawmaking power”
synonyms: renunciation, rejection, refusal, abandonment, abdication, surrender, relinquishment, repudiation, denial; formalabjuration
“a serious abnegation of their responsibilities”
self-denial.
synonyms: self-denial, self-sacrifice, abstinence, temperance, continence, asceticism, austerity, abstemiousness
“people capable of abnegation and unselfishness”

Answer 93

A

mal·o·dor·ous
malˈōdərəs/
adjective
smelling very unpleasant.
synonyms:	foul-smelling, evil-smelling, fetid, smelly, stinking (to high heaven), reeking, rank, high, putrid, noxious; More

Answer 94

A

pet·u·lant
ˈpeCHələnt/
adjective
adjective: petulant
(of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
"he was moody and petulant"
synonyms:	peevish, bad-tempered, querulous, pettish, fretful, cross, irritable, sulky, snappish, crotchety, touchy, tetchy, testy, fractious, grumpy, disgruntled, crabby; More
informalgrouchy, cranky
"he's as petulant as a spoiled child"
antonyms:	good-humored

Pet-chu-ant

Think of yourself having to pet your ant because it is throwing a tantrum, is angry, sulky and grumpy

Answer 95

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ig·no·min·y
ˈiɡnəˌminē,iɡˈnäminē/
noun
noun: ignominy; plural noun: ignominies
public shame or disgrace.
“the ignominy of being imprisoned”
synonyms: shame, humiliation, embarrassment, mortification; More
disgrace, dishonor, discredit, degradation, scandal, infamy, indignity, ignobility, loss of face
“they face the ignominy of losing three straight games to the league’s worst team”
antonyms: honor

Answer 96

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con·trite
kənˈtrīt,ˈkäntrīt/
adjective
adjective: contrite
feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt.
“a broken and a contrite heart”
synonyms: remorseful, repentant, penitent, regretful, sorry, apologetic, rueful, sheepish, hangdog, ashamed, chastened, shamefaced, conscience-stricken, guilt-ridden
“Joey was so contrite we had to conceal our amusement”

Answer 97

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af·fa·ble
ˈafəb(ə)l/
adjective
adjective: affable
friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.
“an affable and agreeable companion”
synonyms: friendly, amiable, genial, congenial, cordial, warm, pleasant, nice, likable, personable, charming, agreeable, sympathetic, simpatico, good-humored, good-natured, jolly, kindly, kind, courteous, civil, gracious, approachable, accessible, amenable, sociable, hail-fellow-well-met, outgoing, gregarious, neighborly
“he would have us believe that his sexual advances were merely the charming excesses of an affable rogue”
antonyms: unfriendly

Answer 98

A

mer·i·to·ri·ous
ˌmerəˈtôrēəs/
adjective
adjective: meritorious
deserving reward or praise.
"a medal for meritorious conduct"
synonyms:	praiseworthy, laudable, commendable, admirable, estimable, creditable, worthy, deserving, excellent, exemplary, good
"an award for meritorious conduct"
antonyms:	discreditable

Answer 99

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An·glo·phile
ˈaNGɡləˌfīl/
noun
1.
a person who is fond of or greatly admires England or Britain.
adjective
1.
fond or admiring of England or Britain.

Answer 100

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lu·gu·bri·ous
ləˈɡ(y)o͞obrēəs/
adjective
adjective: lugubrious
looking or sounding sad and dismal.
synonyms:	mournful, gloomy, sad, unhappy, doleful, glum, melancholy, woeful, miserable, woebegone, forlorn, somber, solemn, serious, sorrowful, morose, dour, cheerless, joyless, dismal; More
funereal, sepulchral;
informaldown in/at the mouth;
literarydolorous
"lugubrious hymns"
antonyms:	cheerful

Answer 101

A

for·lorn
fərˈlôrn/
adjective
adjective: forlorn
1.
pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.
“forlorn figures at bus stops”
synonyms: unhappy, sad, miserable, sorrowful, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, wretched, abject, down, downcast, dispirited, downhearted, crestfallen, depressed, melancholy, gloomy, glum, mournful, despairing, doleful, woebegone; More
informalblue, down in/at the mouth, down in the dumps;
rarelachrymose
“he sounded forlorn”
desolate, deserted, abandoned, forsaken, forgotten, neglected
“a forlorn garden”
antonyms: happy, cared for
2.
(of an aim or endeavor) unlikely to succeed or be fulfilled; hopeless.
“a forlorn attempt to escape”
synonyms: hopeless, vain, with no chance of success; More
useless, futile, pointless, purposeless, unavailing, nugatory;
archaicbootless
“a forlorn attempt”
antonyms: hopeful, sure-fire

Answer 102

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cor·po·re·al
kôrˈpôrēəl/
adjective
adjective: corporeal
of or relating to a person’s body, especially as opposed to their spirit.
“he was frank about his corporeal appetites”
having a body.
“a corporeal God”
synonyms: bodily, fleshly, carnal, corporal, somatic, human, mortal, earthly, physical, material, tangible, concrete, real, actual, this-worldly
“they tried to bring Satan into corporeal existence”

Answer 103

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tor·por
ˈtôrpər/
noun
noun: torpor
a state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy.
“they veered between apathetic torpor and hysterical fanaticism”
synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness, inertia, inactivity, lifelessness, listlessness, languor, lassitude, laziness, idleness, indolence, sloth, acedia, passivity, somnolence, weariness, sleepiness
“the feeling of torpor lingered for weeks”

Answer 104

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pre·co·cious
prəˈkōSHəs/
adjective
(of a child) having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual.
“he was a precocious, solitary boy”
synonyms: advanced for one’s age, forward, mature, gifted, talented, clever, intelligent, quick; informalsmart
“some of the boys were extremely precocious”
(of behavior or ability) indicative of early development.
“a precocious talent for computing”
(of a plant) flowering or fruiting earlier than usual.

Answer 105

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eu·phe·mism
ˈyo͞ofəˌmizəm/
noun
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
““downsizing” as a euphemism for cuts”
synonyms: polite term, indirect term, circumlocution, substitute, alternative, understatement, genteelism
“‘influential person’ is the local euphemism for underworld don”

Answer 106

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be·lie
bəˈlī/
verb
1.
(of an appearance) fail to give a true notion or impression of (something); disguise or contradict.
“his lively alert manner belied his years”
synonyms: contradict, be at odds with, call into question, show/prove to be false, disprove, debunk, discredit, controvert, negate; formalconfute
“his eyes belied his words”
2.
fail to fulfill or justify (a claim or expectation); betray.
“the notebooks belie Darwin’s later recollection”

Answer 107

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con·trite
kənˈtrīt,ˈkäntrīt/
adjective
feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt.
“a broken and a contrite heart”
synonyms: remorseful, repentant, penitent, regretful, sorry, apologetic, rueful, sheepish, hangdog, ashamed, chastened, shamefaced, conscience-stricken, guilt-ridden
“Joey was so contrite we had to conceal our amusement”

Answer 108

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adjective
1.
wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
synonyms: lazy, idle, slothful, loafing, do-nothing, sluggardly, shiftless, lackadaisical, languid, inactive, underactive, inert, sluggish, lethargic, torpid; More

Answer 109

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ab·struse

abˈstro͞os,əbˈstro͞os/
adjective
difficult to understand; obscure.
“an abstruse philosophical inquiry”
synonyms: obscure, arcane, esoteric, little known, recherché, rarefied, recondite, difficult, hard, puzzling, perplexing, cryptic, enigmatic, Delphic, complex, complicated, involved, over/above one’s head, incomprehensible, unfathomable, impenetrable, mysterious
“her abstruse arguments were hard to follow”

Answer 110

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as·suage
əˈswāj/
verb
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.
“the letter assuaged the fears of most members”
synonyms: relieve, ease, alleviate, soothe, mitigate, allay, palliate, abate, suppress, subdue; More
satisfy (an appetite or desire).
“an opportunity occurred to assuage her desire for knowledge”
synonyms: satisfy, gratify, appease, fulfill, indulge, relieve, slake, sate, satiate, quench, check
“her hunger was quickly assuaged”

Suede Wage used to paid to someone to relieve their anger.

Answer 111

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pla·cate
ˈplākāt/
verb
make (someone) less angry or hostile.
“they attempted to placate the students with promises”
synonyms: pacify, calm, appease, mollify, soothe, win over, conciliate, propitiate, make peace with, humor
“John did his best to placate her”

Answer 112

A

ab·struse
abˈstro͞os,əbˈstro͞os/
adjective
difficult to understand; obscure.
"an abstruse philosophical inquiry"
synonyms:	obscure, arcane, esoteric, little known, recherché, rarefied, recondite, difficult, hard, puzzling, perplexing, cryptic, enigmatic, Delphic, complex, complicated, involved, over/above one's head, incomprehensible, unfathomable, impenetrable, mysterious
"her abstruse argum

Answer 113

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re·cher·ché
rəˌSHerˈSHā,rəˈSHerˌSHā/
adjective
rare, exotic, or obscure.
“a few linguistic terms are perhaps a bit recherché for the average readership”
synonyms: obscure, rare, esoteric, abstruse, arcane, recondite, exotic, strange, unusual, unfamiliar, out of the ordinary
“most of the titles are recherché”

Answer 114

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rec·on·dite
ˈrekənˌdīt,riˈkän-/
adjective
adjective: recondite
(of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse.
“the book is full of recondite information”
synonyms: obscure, abstruse, arcane, esoteric, recherché, profound, difficult, complex, complicated, involved; incomprehensible, unfathomable, impenetrable, cryptic, opaque
“the recondite realms of Semitic philology”

Answer 115

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es·o·ter·ic
ˌesəˈterik/
adjective
intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
“esoteric philosophical debates”
synonyms: abstruse, obscure, arcane, recherché, rarefied, recondite, abstract; enigmatic, inscrutable, cryptic, Delphic; complex, complicated, incomprehensible, opaque, impenetrable, mysterious
“in attendance were more than 50 antiques dealers brimming with esoteric knowledge”

Answer 116

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cred·u·lous
ˈkrejələs/
adjective
having or showing too great a readiness to believe things.
synonyms: gullible, naive, too trusting, easily taken in, impressionable, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, unquestioning; innocent, ingenuous, inexperienced, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyed; informalborn yesterday, wet behind the ears
“he sold ‘miracle’ cures to desperate and credulous clients”

Image and Association = credit u less = cut up credit card

Picture a store clerk cutting up the credit card of a seagull riding a bull (gullible)

Answer 117

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(of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.
“she’s an incorrigible flirt”
synonyms: inveterate, habitual, confirmed, hardened, dyed-in-the-wool, incurable, chronic, irredeemable, hopeless, beyond hope; impenitent, unrepentant, unapologetic, unashamed; bad, naughty, terrible
“an incorrigible flirt”
antonyms: repentant

Answer 118

A

Incorrigible

Answer 119

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(of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.
“she’s an incorrigible flirt”
synonyms: inveterate, habitual, confirmed, hardened, dyed-in-the-wool, incurable, chronic, irredeemable, hopeless, beyond hope; impenitent, unrepentant, unapologetic, unashamed; bad, naughty, terrible
“an incorrigible flirt”
antonyms: repentant

Answer 120

A

Incorrigible

Answer 121

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To be overly passive or submissive

Image: Sir-Vile

Picture a knight called Sir-Vile. He is continually having guests at his castle who take it over and throw him out. Which he accepts without rebuke.

Answer 122

A

To be overly passive or submissive

Image: Sir-Vile

Picture a knight called Sir-Vile. He is continually having guests at his castle who take it over and throw him out. Which he accepts without rebuke.

Answer 123

A

1.
express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behavior or actions.
“she had rebuked him for drinking too much”
synonyms: reprimand, reproach, scold, admonish, reprove, chastise, upbraid, berate, take to task, criticize, censure; More
noun
1.
an expression of sharp disapproval or criticism.
“he hadn’t meant it as a rebuke, but Neil flinched”
synonyms: reprimand, reproach, reproof, scolding, admonishment, admonition, upbraiding, finger-wagging; More

Answer 124

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To cause to become less severe.

Image: A baseball mitt at a gate. A person is brought to it to be taken through the gate for lashings. The mitt whispers their ear don’t worry I will reduce that to 2 lashings for you.

Answer 125

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Extremely poisonous. Hateful.

1.
(of a disease or poison) extremely severe or harmful in its effects.
synonyms: poisonous, toxic, venomous, noxious, deadly, lethal, fatal, dangerous, harmful, injurious, pernicious, damaging, destructive; More
2.
bitterly hostile.
“a virulent attack on liberalism”
synonyms: vitriolic, malicious, malevolent, hostile, spiteful, venomous, vicious, vindictive, bitter, sharp, rancorous, acrimonious, scathing, caustic, withering, nasty, savage, harsh
“a virulent attack on morals”

Answer 126

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state of having simultaneous conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings towards some object. Stated another way, ambivalence is the experience of having an attitude towards someone or something that contains both positively and negatively valenced components.

Answer 127

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To express mild disapproval, disapprove regretfully, to belittle

Image: depbri-cake

A cake consisting of mostly fallen debris is presented by the culinary student to the baker. The baker is looking at the cake and shaking his head regretfully. No… No this unfortunately will not do the baker says.

Answer 128

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lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite.
“hackneyed old sayings”
synonyms: overused, overdone, overworked, worn out, timeworn, platitudinous, vapid, stale, tired, threadbare;

Image: hack-knee

A man with a hack saw taking off his knees. When asked what he is doing he says these knees are worn out and overworked. They can cant play a significant role anymore. I’ve overdone it.

Answer 129

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(of a remark or statement) used too often to be interesting or thoughtful; hackneyed.
“this may sound platitudinous”
synonyms: hackneyed, overworked, overused, clichéd, banal, trite, commonplace, well worn, stale, tired, unoriginal; informalcorny, old hat
“platitudinous political sound bites”
antonyms: original

Answer 130

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offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
“tuneful but vapid musical comedies”
synonyms: insipid, uninspired, colorless, uninteresting, feeble, flat, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, uninspiring, unimaginative, uninvolving, lifeless, tame, vacuous, bland, trite, jejune
“a tuneful but vapid musical comedy

Answer 131

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(of cloth, clothing, or soft furnishings) becoming thin and tattered with age.
“shabby rooms with threadbare carpets”
synonyms: worn, well worn, old, thin, worn out, holey, moth-eaten, mangy, ragged, frayed, tattered, battered; More
(of a person, building, or room) poor or shabby in appearance.
(of an argument, excuse, idea, etc.) used so often that it is no longer effective.
“the song was a tissue of threadbare clichés”

Answer 132

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Boring or stupid

Image: Inn-sip-head

Picture a giant dunce with a dunce cap on trying to sip knowledge into his head from an Inn that he has picked up off the ground

Answer 133

A

Concealed, difficult to understand

Image: Ab-stru (strudel abs)

Picture a person doing sit-ups that has strudel abs. The have a hood over their head and a gag around their mouth. As they do sit-ups they are trying to talk to you. You can’t see them or understand what the fuck they are saying.

Answer 134

A

To cause, to produce, to create

Image: N-Gender, letter “N” Male/Female symbols

Picture the letter “N” working on a factory line that’s producing Male and Female gender signs. As it watches the production it is creating drawings of the signs over and over and placing them on a pile next to it.

Answer 135

A

To praise to glorify

Image: “X” toll

Picture drivers paying their toll at the toll booth with letter “X’s”. As the attendant receives each X he praises, bows and honours each one.

Answer 136

A

Secret in an underhanded way. Stealthy.

Image: Mein Führer

Picture sneaking around lobbing copies of “The Secret” underhanded onto tables etc while dressed in black and going unnoticed

Answer 137

A

Extremely apologetic, remorseful

Image: Con-Right - Right Turn Arrow in striped cons prison uniform

As people turn right off of the cliff because he is standing in the wrong place he yells after them, “I am sorry, I am so sorry!”

Answer 138

A

a person with incredible self-discipline and the ability to deprive herself, or an adjective that describes such a people or their lifestyle.

Answer 139

A

characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.

“books that people buy and display ostentatiously but never actually finish”
synonyms: showy, pretentious, conspicuous, flamboyant, gaudy, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, overelaborate; informalflash, flashy, splashy, fancy-pants, over the top, glitzy, ritzy, superfly
“an ostentatious display of wealth”

Image: Oz-10-Take us

The wizard of Oz and 10 of Diamonds (couple) take us on tour of their pretentious, showy, flamboyant home and continually ask us what we think about it.

Answer 140

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not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily.

“she was extremely reticent about her personal affairs”

synonyms: reserved, withdrawn, introverted, inhibited, diffident, shy; uncommunicative, unforthcoming, unresponsive, tight-lipped, buttoned-up, quiet, taciturn, silent, guarded, secretive
“Smith was reticent about his person

Image: Rat-Scent

A rat with cartoon stink lines coming off of him walking through a group of people who asking him why he stinks. He hums and ha’s but does not say anything about it.

Answer 141

A

Not verbose. Quiet.

Image: taste the turn

Someone quietly licking a turn sign. Hey do not say anything to you other than to slowly and quietly give you the shhhhh sign.

Answer 142

A

(also called submission or passivity) is the condition of submitting to the espoused, legitimate influence of one’s superior or superiors. Deference implies a yielding or submitting to the judgment of a recognized superior out of respect or reverence

Answer 143

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To give a false impression. To contradict.

Image: bee-lie

A bee trying to get into a wasp convention is called out by security. The bee dressed in the wasps costume presents his wasp membership card.

Answer 144

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Demonstrative person is someone who shows or demonstrates their emotions.

Demonstrative words include demonstrative adjectives or demonstrative determiners, which qualify nouns (as in Put that coat on), and

Answer 145

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(of a disease or poison) extremely severe or harmful in its effects.
synonyms: poisonous, toxic, venomous, noxious, deadly, lethal, fatal, dangerous, harmful, injurious, pernicious, damaging, destructive; More
2.
bitterly hostile.
“a virulent attack on liberalism”
synonyms: vitriolic, malicious, malevolent, hostile, spiteful, venomous, vicious, vindictive, bitter, sharp, rancorous, acrimonious, scathing, caustic, withering, nasty, savage, harsh
“a virulent attack on morals”

Image: Bur-who-lent
A banker Bur poisoning his customers withdrawals. The customers die upon leaving the bank from the poison. He becomes so hostile that he starts stuffing poisoned money in their pockets.

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