HARD Flashcards
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Divination of facts concerning and object or its owner through contact with or proximity to the object.
PSYCHOMETRY
Gives pleasure or amusement to.
Affects pleasurably.
REGALES
A composition (as a set oration) in commendation of someone or something (as of the character and services of a deceased person).
EULOGY
Taking no clear position or giving no clear indication of attitude, feeling, or point of view.
NONCOMMITAL
An attorney who conducts proceedings especially of a criminal nature in a court on behalf of the government.
PROSECUTOR
Members of a Muskogean people of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.
CHOCTAWS (Capital C)
A device, symbol, design, or figure adopted and used as an identifying mark.
EMBLEM
To Shrink back especially with a sudden movement (as in horror, fear, disgust).
To move suddenly backward or away.
RECOIL
The materials (as fabric, padding and spring) used to make a soft covering especially for a seat; specifically.
Specifically, the fabric used to cover a seat.
UPHOLSTERY
Characterized by adequate power to produce an intended result.
EFFECTUAL
A not particularly close or intimate friend.
A person with whom one has had some social contact but whom one has no strong personal attachment.
ACQUAINTANCE
A lively Spanish dance usually performed by a man and woman with castanets and in triple time.
FANDANGO
A large cask of varying capacity.
PUNCHEON
Relating to conditioning in which the desired behavior or increasingly closer approximations to it are followed by a rewarding or reinforcing stimulus - used in psychology.
OPERANT
The system of public works of a country, state, or region.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Descended from or as if from the air and come to rest.
Landed, settled.
ALIGHTED
Of or from the city of the same name in England.
CANTERBURY (capital C)
A person whose job is to prepare and serve coffee and similar drinks (such as espresso).
BARISTA
Lodgings, food, and services (as at a hotel).
ACCOMODATIONS
Collective opinion.
The judgement arrived at by most of those concerned.
CONSENSUS
Having an offensive smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition.
RANCID
The tube by which food passes from the pharynx to the stomach.
The esophagus.
GULLET
One who manipulates small-scale figures of humans or other living beings.
PUPPETEER
Suggestive of an agreement manifesting itself in words or deeds and made by two or more persons confederating to do an unlawful act.
CONSPIRATORIAL
Degraded.
Demoted.
RELEGATED
An almost transparent pretense.
CHARADE
Side-whiskers that are narrow at the temple and broad and round by the lower jaws.
MUTTONCHOPS
Historic region of Southwest France whose capital was Toulouse.
AQUITAINE (capital A)
One who behaves criminally or viciously.
MISCREANT
A modified revival of a Panhellenic festival originating in Athens in 1896, held once every 4 years, and consisting of international athletic contests.
OLYMPICS (capital O)
A small usually ceramic vessel with a small mouth; especially.
One used by apothecaries to hold medicines.
GALLIPOT
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other, usually furnished with loopholes, and designed to form a barrier or defensive fortification.
STOCKADE
Former periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trail and determination of civil and criminal cases.
ASSIZES
The creation of a condition of being able to resist a particular disease.
IMMUNIZATION
Intense, turbulent, or furious action, force, or feeling often destructive.
VIOLENCE
Furnished (as an institution) with an income.
ENDOWED
To die from being unable to breathe.
SUFFOCATE
Relating to the beautiful as distinguished from the merely pleasing, the moral, and especially the useful and utilitarian.
AESTHETIC
the action of suspending the sentence of a convicted offender in such a way that the offender is given freedom after promising good behavior and agreeing to a varying degree of supervision.
PROBATION
Having the quality of or suggesting a lamentation or cry of grief.
KEENING
Harsh and usually irritating or unpleasant - used especially of the human voice.
GRAVELLY
A dark brown or black flammable tar deposited from especially wood smoke on the walls of a chimney.
CREOSOTE
Related to a trait or condition failing to serve a useful or adjustive purpose ion society.
DYSFUNCTIONAL
The nutlike seed of a low-growing nut pine of western North America used especially in confectionery.
PINON
Concealed by means of disguise.
CAMOUFLAGED
One duly authorized to treat disease.
A doctor of medicine.
PHYSICIAN
Supreme leader especially of the ancient Romans.
Commander, emperor.
IMPERATOR
The head of a person or animal.
CABEZA
A river in central California flowing from the Sierra Nevada southwest and then northwest into the Sacramento River.
SAN JOAQUIN (capital S, capital J)
A vicious South and Central American rattlesnake that has a powerful neurotoxic venom and is the only rattlesnake of eastern South America.
CASCABEL
A member of a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century.
CARMELITE (capital C)
Marked by or given to ready vehement insistent outcry.
VOCIFEROUS
A breeding ground or common haunt of gregarious birds or animals (as herons, penguins, or seals).
A colony of such birds or animals.
ROOKERY
A device that restores the heart’s normal rhythm.
DEFIBRILLATOR
A woman’s small drawstring bag used as a pocketbook, workbag, or carryall.
RETICULE
A meeting for the purpose of receiving spirit communications.
SEANCE
An article of artistic worth.
OBJET D’ART
Having characteristics of an architecture developed in the eastern Roman Empire having as it’s chief decorative feature the incrustation of walls with marble veneering and with richly colored mosaic on grounds of gold.
BYZANTINE (capital B)
A firm fabric in plain weave usually with a silk or rayon warp and a heavy cotton filling that forms pronounced crosswire ribs.
GROSGRAIN
The central body portion of an airplane designed to accommodate the crew and passengers or cargo.
FUSELAGE
An electron tube in which bunching of electrons is produced by subjecting them to acceleration and deceleration by high potential across a gap and which is used for the generation and amplification of ultrahigh-frequency current (as in radar).
KLYSTRON
A branch of science that deals with practical applications (as the transmission of energy or the effects of flow) of water or other liquid in motion.
HYDRAULICS
Of or relating to, involving, or according to the laws of a branch of mathematics in with arithmetic relations are generalized and explored by using letter symbols to represent numbers, variable quantities, or other mathematical entities.
ALGEBRAIC
Site in northern Ukraine of a town abandoned after a nuclear accident nearby in 1986.
CHERNOBYL
In a manner marked by caution and earnest attention to all significant circumstances and possible consequences of action.
CIRCUMSPECTLY
Given to airy dismissal of thing worthy of attention.
CAVALIER
A commissioned officer in the army, navy, air force, or marine corps.
LIEUTENANT
A manual or guide for systematic instruction (as for moral and religious instruction) sometimes in the form of a comprehensive summary of doctrine and often in the form of questions and answers.
CATECHISM
An island in the western Indian Ocean off southeastern Africa that is known for its unique flora and fauna.
MADAGASCAR
Something that is hidden or stored in a secret or secure place.
CACHE
The condition of admitting of two or more meanings, of being understood in more than one way, or of referring to two or more things at the same time.
AMBIGUITY
A French gold coin first struck in 1640 and issues up to the Revolution.
LOUIS D’OR
Clumsy or unskilled seamen.
LUBBERS
One of the pirates preying upon Spanish ships and settlements especially in the West Indies in the seventeenth century.
BUCCANEER
A coarse, brutal, or cruel fellow.
RUFFIAN
Highly objectionable.
Mean, bad, wretched, vile, detestable.
VILLAINOUS
Produced by human beings and intended to imitate something in nature.
Simulated.
ARTIFICIAL
River 1,700 miles long in southwestern Asia flowing from eastern Turkey southeast through Syria and Iraq to unite with the Tigris forming the Shatt al Arab.
EUPHRATES (capital E)
A feeling of well-being or elation.
EUPHORIA
Not capable of being copied.
Matchless.
INIMITABLE
Free from fault or blame.
Flawless.
IMPECCABLE
Any of several simple gaseous compounds used as refrigerants, cleaning solvents, and aerosol propellants and in the manufacture of plastic foams, and that are believed to be a major cause of stratospheric ozone depletion.
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON
A line of five metrical feet.
PENTAMETER
Long narrow flat-bottomed boats with a high prow and stern used on the canals of Venice.
GONDOLAS
Having a smooth even surface.
Free of roughness; specifically.
Having an epidermal covering that is totally or relatively devoid of hairs or down.
GLABROUS
Admitting and diffusing light so that objects beyond cannot be clearly distinguished.
Partly transparent.
TRANSLUCENT
One of a race of giants in Greek mythology with a single eye in the middle of the forehead.
CYCLOPS (capital C)
The sum total of the ethical consequences of a person’s good or bad actions comprising thoughts, words, and deeds that is held in Hinduism and Buddhism to determine one’s specific density in one’s next existence.
KARMA
Wasting away by slow combustion.
SMOLDERING
In a manner that is unwilling, reluctant, illiberal, or ungenerous
GRUDGINGLY
A transgressor against duty or law especially in a degree not constituting crime.
DELINQUENT
Persons held in custody for political reasons.
DETAINEES
A group of Indian peoples of the islands and coast of southern Alaska.
TLINGIT (capital T)
Having no material body or form.
Not consisting of matter.
INCORPOREAL
Small obscure clefts, corners, or closed spaces that are easy to overlook and are likely places for concealing something or hiding.
CRANNIES
Details that have meaning only for the specialist.
TECHNICALITIES
Conscious or capable of fine distinctions or perceptions.
Sensitive.
SENTINENT
Transparent, pure, pellucid.
CRYSTALLINE
The evening preceding All Saints’ Day.
Halloween.
SAMHAIN
