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Group 15 & 16 Flashcards

1
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Alienate

A

Makes someone isolated or estranged

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2
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Apathy

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Lack of interest, concern or enthusiasm

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3
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Apropos

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With reference to

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Apt

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Suitable in circumstances

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5
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Cloak

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Something serve to hide or disguise something

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6
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Consensus

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A general agreement

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7
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Divergent

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Tending to be different or develop in different directions

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8
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Elated

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Make someone feel ecstatically happy

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9
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Enchant

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Fill someone with great delight

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Entrenched

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Firmly established and difficult or unable to change, ingrained

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11
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Exotic

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Characteristic of distant foreign country

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12
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Forseeable

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Able to foreseen or predict

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13
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Forsake

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Abandon, renounce

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14
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Gratify

A

Give someone pleasure or satisfaction

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15
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Heed

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Pay attention to or take notice of

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16
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Judicious

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Showing, having or done with great judgement

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17
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Lucid

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Clearly expressed, easy to understand

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18
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Pertinent

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Relevant to a particular matter

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19
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Propriety

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Conformity to conventionally accepted standards of behavior

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Scintillation

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Shinning brightly, brilliantly clever

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21
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Sensational

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Causing great public interest or excitement

22
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Sophisticated

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Having, revealing or involving a great deal of worldly experience or knowledge in fashion or culture, advanced and complicated

23
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Strife

A

Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues

24
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Understated

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Express or present in a subtle and effective way

25
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Unscrupulous

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Having or showing no moral principles, not honest or fair

26
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Veracity

A

Conformity to the facts

27
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Virulent

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Extremely severe or harmful in its effects, bitterly hostile

28
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Antedate

A

Precede in time

29
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Banish

A

Send someone away from the country as an official punishment, get rid of

30
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Bridle

A

Used to control movement

31
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Comply

A

Act in accordance with a wish or command

32
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Crestfallen

A

Sad and disappointed

33
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Elucidate

A

Make something clear, explain

34
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Evade

A

Escape or avoid something especially by trickery

35
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Feckless

A

Lacking initiative or strength of character, irresponsible

36
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Fester

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(of wound)become septic, (of person)become worse

37
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Iconclastic

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Criticize cherished institutions or beliefs

38
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Immure

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Confined or enclosed against their will

39
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Inhibit

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Prevent

40
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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand or interpret

41
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Lionize

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Give a lot of public attention and approval to somone

42
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Monotonous

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Dull, tedious, lacking in variety

43
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Peculiar

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Strange and special

44
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Premeditate

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Think out or plan beforehand

45
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Profligate

A

Wasteful in use of resources

46
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Recondite

A

little known, abstruse

47
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Relinquish

A

Voluntarily cease to keep or claim, give up

48
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Ruminate

A

Think about something deeply

49
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Skittish

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(of animal) easily scared of, (of person) unpredictable

50
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Synoptic

A

of or forming general summary

51
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Superfluous

A

Surplus

52
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Vociferous

A

Expressed by vehement opinions, loud and forceful, outspoken

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