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Hard words in reading comprehensions Flashcards

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Anomaly

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Unexpected or abnormal

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Illusory

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Based on an illusion

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Append

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To add to the end

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Analogous

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Similar in a sense, but otherwise different

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Rustic

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Old-fashioned and simple

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Grave

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Very serious

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Transitory

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Temporary

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Congregate

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Coming together in a crowd

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Covert

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Secretive, concealed, or hidden

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Instrumental

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A factor that is vital to a process

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Exhaustive

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Intricate, complete, and detailed

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Ailment

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A minor problem causing slight physical discomfort

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Probe

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Examining something with your hands or tools

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Twilight

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Time of evening right before complete darkness

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Counterpart

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A person or thing with the same function but in a different location

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Vanquish

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Slaying in a competition or fight

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Strenuous

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Something that takes a lot of physical and mental effort

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Encroach

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Getting very close to an acceptable limit

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Blunt

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Not very sharp

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Astute

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To make a decision based off of important examinations

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Perplex

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Confuse or puzzling

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Mundane

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Boring

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Preposterous

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Ridiculous and unbelievable

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Negate

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Bring down something that was positive

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Orient

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To physically align yourself with something OR explore something

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Retain

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To keep and to continue

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Heritable

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Something that is transferable genetically

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Nautical

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Concerning marine and or the navy

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Iteration and reiteration

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Repeating something for a specific result

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Clandestine

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Secretive, usually of something illicit

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Volatile

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Easily evaporated at normal temperatures

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Deploy

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Distribute

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Augment

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Increase

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Relics

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Remains

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Fostered

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Encouraged

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Deviant

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Deviating from expected standards

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Ascribing

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Attributing to..

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Density

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Heaviness

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Precipitation vs perspiration

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Rain vs sweat

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Irrigation

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The supply of water required to grow crops

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Ingenuity

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En-jun-newety
Cleverness

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In correspondance

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In communications

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Singular personality

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unique, exceptional

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Splintered

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Break in pieces

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Dwarfed

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Dominated

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Engendered

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Give rise to, the cause of an effect

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Omniscient

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Omnishint
Knowing everything

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Automate

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Substitution of computers and technologies with humans

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Ornate

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A lot of complicated decorations

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Quarry

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Kwowry
A large hole that builders dig to get all the materials necessary to build

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Platform

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A flat raised area or structure

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Occupant

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A person who lives or works in a building

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Landmark

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An easily recognizable building

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Refute

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Proving something or someone wrong

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Implausible

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An unbelievable statement being described

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Obsolete

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Not used anymore in a sense of something

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Pivotal

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Extremely important for the success of something

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Paradox

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A situation that seems impossible because it is made of opposite things. Eg: drinking hot tea to feel cool.

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Novel

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Interestingly new and different

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Devise

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Plan or create a new method of thinking

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Apathetc

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Opposite of sympathetic,, lack of emotion

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Superfluous

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Too much, more than is desired or needed

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Viable

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Possibility to be done successfully

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Meager

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Insufficient in amount

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Irrevocable

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Impossible to be reversed

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Futile

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Without the possibility of success

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Affluent

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Wealthy

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Tenacious

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Unchanging and stubborn

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Scores

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Large number of something

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Intersperce

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Inserted between other things

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Dormant

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Inactive now, active later

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Remnant

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Something that is left when most is gone

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Synthesize

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2 different things combined => one

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Feasible

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Able to be done without a problem

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Uppheaval

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A violent, sudden, massive change

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Agile

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Moving quickly and lightly

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Perpetuate

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Foster or engender

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Yield

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To produce or cause after a process

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Conspicuous

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Easy to see

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Desist

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To stop doing

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Evade

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To avoid

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Arduous

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Requires a lot of effort

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Sheer

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Only (to emphasize the largeness of something)

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Intrinsic

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Essential- without it there is nothing

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Fragrant

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A good smell

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Innate

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Not learned, from birth

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Dreary

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Sad and boring or colorless

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Procure

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Obtain with a lot of effort

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Subsume

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To contain or to include

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Ensue

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Happen as a result

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Oblong

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Longer in one direction

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Proliferate

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To grow in number very quickly

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Jagged

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Uneven and sharp

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Calamity

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Kuhlamity
An event leading to a lot of loss and pain

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Confer

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Meet and discuss b4 deciding

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Liable

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Likely to do or happen

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Elude vs allude

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Evade vs imply

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Secluded

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Hidden from view

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