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General Knowledge 5 Flashcards

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yielding, dutiful, adaptable

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malleable
sent: she was malleable to our suggestions and eagar to help

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to free, emancipate, liberate

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manumit
sent: when did great britian manumit african slaves?

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despot, disciplinarian, tyrant

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martient
sent: the colonel, a martient, is feared by his troops

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fracas, brawl, skirmish

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melee
sent: adults broke up a brief melee on the playground

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smooth, sweet, honeyed

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mellifluous
sent: his saxophone has a pleasent, mellifluous tone

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deceit, dishonesty, untruthfulness

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mendacity
sent: her constant mendacity has lost her a group of loyal friends

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begger, almsman, pauper

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mendicant
sent: a mendicant walked through the bubway, hat in hand

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counselar, tutor, advisor

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mentor
sent: i serve as a mentor for several entering freshman

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money-oriented, acquisitive, grasping

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mercenary
sent: a day trader may benefit from a mercenaty attitude

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pond, lake, marsh

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mere
sent: herons hunted small frogs in the area around the mere

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vulgar, gaudy, specious

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meretricious
sent: those meretricious trinkets are not worth a dollar

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painstaking, careful, thorough

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meticulous
sent: she does maticulous work as she repairs the old books

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courage, fortitude, pluck

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mettle
sent: the soldiers showed mettle as they patrolled the village

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bearing, apperrance, demeanor

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mien
sent: even under stress, her mien is always regal and calm

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mistrusted, skeptical, scornful

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misanthropic
sent: a misanthropic attitude will never win you friends

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to moderate, alleviate, ease

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mitigate
sent: early education may mitigate poverty in some cases

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to adjust, modify, vary

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modulate
sent: please modulate your voice as you enter the hospital

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to pacify, calm, soothe

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mollify
sent: after the team’s loss, no words could mollify the players

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dying, declining, failing

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moribund
sent: it is a moribund town with few remaining businesses

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commonplace, ordinary, dull

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mundane
sent: a vacation can break you out of your mundane existance

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generous, charitable, benevolent

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munificent
sent: her munificent deeds helped many in our community

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alterable, changeable, variable

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mutable
sent: the hummingbird’s colors are mutable as it flies

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ruler, noble, aristocrat

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nabob
sent: he is considered something of a nabob in his city of residence

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lowmpoint, depths, bottom

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nadir
sent: the loss of her job was the nadir of her misfortune

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innocence, ingenuousness, artlessness

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naivete
sent: a child’s naivete makes every experience seem wonderous

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self-love, conceit, vanity

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narcissism
sent: narcissism led her to challenge any critique of her work

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blossoming, budding, emerging

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nascent
sent: the nascent windmill industry has transformed the town

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cloudy, hazy, imprecise

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nebulous
sent: his nebulous explanation just confused matters

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arch-enemy, rival, retribution

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nemesis
sent: othello’s nemesis is clearly
his advisor, iago

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to irritate, vix, annoy

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nettle
sent: her constant nitpicking will just nettle her coworkers

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detail, subtlety, fastidiousness

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nicety
sent: using the proper fork is a nicety of table manners

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grasping, parimonious, stingy

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niggardly
sent: he was especially niggardly at handing out compliments

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offensive, foul, rank

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noisome
sent: what is that noisome odor coming from the kitchen?

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unconcerned, indifferent, cool

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nonchalant
sent: act nonchalant, and they will never suspect a thing

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trifling, invaild, unimportant

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nugatory
sent: leave those nugatory details out of the report

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coin collector

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numismatist
sent: the numismatist has coins found on a sucken ship

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stubborn, obstinate, unyielding

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obdurate
sent: an obdurate refusal to learn will not help you to succeed

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fat, stout, corpulent

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obese
sent: if he becomes more obese, it will affect his heart and liver

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to complicate, confuse, obscure

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obfuscate
sent: don’t obfuscate the truth with unimportant details

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sycophantic, flattering, fawning

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obsequious
sent: her obsequious behavior made her seem oily and passive

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outdated, passe, archaic

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obsolete
sent: that computer is obsolete; you can no longer buy parts for it

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defiant, confrontational, aggressive

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obstreperous
sent: the obstreperous girl spent time in the principal’s office

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blatant, prominent, brash

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obtrusive
sent: the solar panels blend in and are not too obtrusive

44
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preclude, avert, hinder

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obviate
sent: a good carpet can obicvate the need to refinish the floors

45
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abhorrent, hateful, vile

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odious
sent: that odious person deserves no one’s pity

46
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composition, masterwork, lifework

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oeuvre sent: her oeuvre contains poetry as well as prose

47
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self-important bureaucratic, overbearing

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officious
sent: with an officious manner, the women directed us to sit down

48
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government by the few

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oligarchy
sent: my town os a democracy but yours is more of an oligarchy

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all-powerful, invincible, almighty

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omnipotent
sent: zeus was omnipotent, bbut he still got into trouble

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burdensome, opperssice, troublesome

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onerous
sent: filling out tax forms can be an onerous task

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dense, obscure, unclear

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opaque
sent: the tiles are opaque to hide the shoer stall

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disgrace, ignominy, dishonor

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opprobrium
sent: he left town to escape any opprobrium for his misdeeds

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seer, soothsayer, visionary

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oracle
sent: an oracle warned him that he would face many enemies

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speechifying, rhetoric, eloquence

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oratory
sent: plainspoken harruy truman was not knwon for his oratory

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to swing, vacillate, sway

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oscillate
sent: the breeze caused the swings to oscillate gentlu

56
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to kiss, bussm contact

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osculate
senta: the two pool balls osculate as they come to rest

57
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showy, flamboyant, pretentious

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ostentatious
sent: that ostentatious display does not inspire me to buy his hats

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chatter, gossip, chitchat

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palaver
sent: after an hour of palaver club members got down to business

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picket, fence, fortification

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palisade
sent: we set up a palisade around the orchard to keep out the deer

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trivial, trifling, unimportant

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paltry
sent: leave the paltry task and join our more important discussion

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flair, elan, style

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panache
sent: he wears his unusual outfits with panache

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tribute, encomium, compliment

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panegyric
sent: she delivered a panegyric in memory of her father

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model, example, archetype

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paradigm
sent: is romeo the paradigm of the star-crossed lover?

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dominant, supreme, principal

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paramount
sent: raising wages is paramount in our plan for reform

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outcast, exile, untouchable

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pariah
sent: his odd appearrance made him a pariah in the village

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stinginess, frugality, economy

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parsimony
sent: parsimony led her to live in rags when she could afford better

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pity, sympathy, sorrow

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pathos
sent: the pathos in the music made the audience somber and still

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dialect, regionalism, vernacular

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patois
sent: he speaks an unusual patois that mixes french and english

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scarceness, lack, rarity

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paucity
sent: there is a paucity of fresh seafood in my inland city

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offense, transgression, sin

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peccadillo
sent: a minor peccadillo will not result in much punishment

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monetary, financialm, economic

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pecuniary
sent: his pecuniary difficulties led him to seek new employment

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teaching, education, instruction

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pedagogy
sent: my education professor teaches theories of pedagogy

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dull, doctrinaire, obscure

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pedanric
sent: the speaker’s pedantic tone nearly put me to sleep

74
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atonement, repentance, regret

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penitence
sent: as penitence for being late, she promised to pay for dinner

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throughtful, boording, meditative

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pensive
sent: in a pensive mood, he meditated on his life

76
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indigent, destitute, stingy

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penurious
sent: the penurious family scratched out a living on five arces

77
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laborer, farm worker, drudge

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peon
sent: rather than valuing my input, my boss treats me like a peon

78
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to roam, stroll, amble

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perambulate
sent: my parents like to perambulate along that paths in the park

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