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General Knowledge 6 Flashcards

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betrayal, treachery, disloyalty

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perfidy
sent: his earlier perfidy means that no one trusts him now

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mechanical, unthinking, indifferent

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perfunctory
sent: i only gave the instructions a quick, perfunctory look

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wandering, roving, itinerant

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peripatetic
sent: her career has been periatetic, taking her to six different cities

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banter, chat, repartee

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presiflage
sent: their silly persiflage was meant to amuse the listener

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astute, insightful, shrewd

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perspicacious
sent: one perspicacious remark led me to reconsider my plans

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irritable, peevish, bad-tempered

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petulant
sent: that petulant child deserves a short time-out

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formation, configuration, arrangement

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phalanx
sent: a phalanx of armed horsemen appeared on the hillside

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apparition, specter, ghost

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phantasm
sent: wispy fog can make you think you have seen a phantasm

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hyocrite, goody-goody

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pharisee
sent: his know-it-all superiority made us call him a pharisee

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benevolent, altruistic, charitable

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philanthropic
sent: philanthropic works are expected of the very rich

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stamp collector

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philatelist
sent: does the philatelist have any stamps that are available?

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boor, borbarian, lout

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philistine
sent: does my dislike of opera make me some kind of philistine?

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placid, undmonstrative, apathetic

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phlegmatic
sent: as others become passionate he becomes more phlegmatic

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trivial, paltry, worthless

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picayune
sent: that was a picayune waste of everyone’s time

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spotted, mottled, multicolored

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piebald
sent: the child rode a russet and white piebal pony

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devotion, faithfulness, reverence

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piety
sent: we expect nuns to display more piety that the average person

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to steal, embezzle, filch

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pilfer
sent: if you pilfer writing supplies from work, is that a crime?

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to shackle, immobilize, bind

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pinion
sent: both wrestlers oinion their opponents easily

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to calm, pacify, appease

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placate
sent: his quiet explanation seemed to placate the children

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cliche, banality, truism

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platitude
sent: responding with a platitude will not make her feel better

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acclaim, recognition, approval

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plaudit
sent: she earned every plaudit that she recieved for her work

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excess, overabundance, surplus

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plethora
sent: the shop houses a plethora of worthless castoffs

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argument, controversy, refutation

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polemic
sent: his polemic against the two-party system made us mad

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artful, shrewd, diplomatic

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politic
sent: your outburst was not politic and merely upset people

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ominous, significant, pompous

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portentous
sent: a portentous dark cloud seemed to hover over the hero

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entry, walkway, porch

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portico
sent: they stood under the portico to greet their guests

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hypothesize, assert, assume

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postulate
sent: what did early scientists postulate about lunar eclipses?

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practical, sensible, down-to-earth

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pragmatic
sent: she gave her som pragmatic advice as he set off for college

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to chatter, jabber, babble

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prate
sent: don’t prate about your day when i am trying to work

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partiality, tendency, preferenec

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predilection
sent: in bakeried, my predilection is for anything chocolate

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headlong, rash, impulsive

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precipitant
sent: throughtful prepararion is better than precipitant action

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advanced, gifted, premature

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precocious
sent: her precocious daughter could red by the age of three

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to lie, evade, hedge

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prevariacte
sent: do not prevaricate; tell the panel what really happened

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prevalent, predominant, influential

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preponderant
sent: wineries are preponderant in the land between the lakes

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clairvoyant, psychic, perceptive

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prescient
sent: she seemed prescient when she correctly predicted the winner

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right, privilege, sanction

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prerogative
sent: it is their prerogative to ask for a legal opinion

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integrity, honestly, morality

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probity
sent: they believe that hos probuty is beyond reproach

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penchant, tendency, liking

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proclivity
sent: a proclivity for sweers may lead to tooth decay

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profligate, wasteful, dissolute

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prodigal
sent: her prodigal habits made her father put her on an allowance

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extraordinary, phenomenal, immense

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prodigious
sent: the table held a prodigious number of desserts

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dissolute, decadent, extravagant

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profligate
sent: profligate spending will bankrupt them in no time

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to predict, forecast, protend

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prognosticate
sent: what do tou prognosticate about next week’s weather?

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to multiply, breed, reproduce

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proliferate
sent: wildflowers proliferate the moment it gets warm

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verbose, wordy, long-winded

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prolix
sent: his prolux spsech confused and exhausted his audience

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to broadcast, publicize, disseminate

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promulgate
sent: candidates promulgate their messages through social media

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closeness, proximity, relationship

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propinquity
sent: the propinquity of the shop to the highway made it desirable

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favorable, auspicious, promising

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propitious
sent: it is a propitious time to buy that particular stock

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straightforward, matter-of-fact, pedestrian

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prosaic
sent: prosaic worries prevent us from seeing the beauty around us

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to forbid, ban, prohibit

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proscribe
sent: do the rules proscribe bringing more than one guest?

47
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temporary, interim, short-term

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provisional
sent: it is a provisional appointment until we see how you perform

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skill, competence, expertise

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prowess
sent: the gymnast’s prowess on the uneven bars amazed us

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lascivious, salacious, lecherous

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prurient
sent: keep that prurient literature out of hte hands of children

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juvenile, childish, immature

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puerile
sent: his puerile conduct would have seemed silly in a child of five

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combative, belligerent, argumentative

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pugnacious
sent: being agreeable may beat being pugnacious in this situation

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to crush, macerate, mash

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pulverize
sent: that machine is used in winemaking to pulverize graps

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to steal, pilfer, rob

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purloin
sent: she would purloin a quarter or two from his change jar

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cowardly, timid, spineless

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pusillanimous
sent: the pusillanimous officer ran away at the first sign of battle

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supposed, alleged, preseumed

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putative
sent: who was the putative winner of last night’s election?

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to drink, imbibe, guzzle

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quaff
sent: quaff that beer, and let’s be on our way

57
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predicament, quandary, dilemma

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quagmire
sent: deciding on a graduate school felt like a quamire to him

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to defeat, suppress, nullify

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quash
sent: don’t their ideas; they have a right to express them

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wharf, dock, jetty

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quay
sent: several people were fishing from the end of the quay

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petulant, complaining, whiny

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querulous
sent: her querulous objections followedme down the hallways

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exemplary, prototypical, classic

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quintessential
sent: he is the quintessential leading man-articulate and attractive

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idealistic, romantic, impulsive

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quixotic
sent: my quixotic vision of a world at peace

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everyday, commonplacem usual

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quotidian
sent: they continued to follow their quotidian rountine

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zealous, fanatical, fervent

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rabid
sent: they are both rabid believers in the need for alternative energy

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carefree, breezy, ridicule

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raffish
sent: she tossed on her colorful scarf with a raffih air

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teasing, banter, ridicule

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raillery
sent: his raillery was meant in fun but felt hurtful

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boisterous, unruly, disorderly

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rambunctious
sent: the rambunctious girls oushed rudely through the crowd

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unrestrained widespread, extensive

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rampant
sent: rodents were rampant in the basement of the old museum

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esoteric, obscure, highbrow

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rarefied
sent: college life can seem rarefied to young blue-collor workers

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affinity, bond, relationship

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rapport
sent: we built up a rapport after working together for weeks

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starving, famished, voracious

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ravenous
sent: we were ravenous and stopped at the next diner we saw

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to reason, calculate, deduce

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ratiocinate
sent: i can’t ratiocinate of you keep adding more information

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unmanageable, unruly, defiant

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recalcitrant
sent: recalcitrant middle- schoolers can be difficult to teach

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disavow, retract, renounce

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recant
sent: galileo wouls not recant his statements about the sun

74
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interchange, return, counter

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reciprocate
sent: we would like to reciprocate your hospitality sometimes

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