Group 5 Flashcards

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Anesthetic

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Substance that causes insensibility and removes pain

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Antipathy

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Dislike

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Astrologer

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Someone who believes the stars and planets dictates the future

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Aversion

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An intense feeling of dislike or disgust

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Bent

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An inclination or tendency

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Condone

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To approve

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Dogma

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A set of religious principles

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Ensure

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Make certain

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Equivocal

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Ambiguous, doubtful, or uncertain

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant

EXTRA + ANUS…extra anus is not essential :p.

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Illusory

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Deceptive, based upon a false belief or impression

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Insipir

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Without taste or flavor, bland

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Inured

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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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Miser

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An individual who lives poorly in order to hoard money

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Nonplussed

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Baffled, in a quandary; at a loss for what to say or do

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Penchant

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Strong liking

P+enchant

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Penury

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Poverty

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Preempt

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take action in order to prevent (an anticipated event) from happening; forestall

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Presumption

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The act of making an assumption

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Qualms

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Misgivings, reservations

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Quiescence

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Stillness, quality of being at rest

Quiet + Essence = being still

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Repudiate

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To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown

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Restitutions

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The act of returning something to its proper owner

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Savor

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To enjoy

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Solvent

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Able to meet financial obligations

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Stint

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To restrain

Sounds like stunt, like stunting growth

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Subjective

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Not objective, based upon perceptions over fact

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Trivial

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Unimportant, lacking value

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Veneration

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Extreme respect; worship