Interesting words Flashcards
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Burnish
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Polish (not the country)
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Hauteur
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Arrogance
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Dissolute
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Overindulging in sensual pleasures
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Officious
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Domineering interfering
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Insatiable
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Impossible to satisfy
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Panache
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Flamboyant confidence
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Ingratiate
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Flattery to better yourself
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Quasi
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Appearing to be so (seemingly)
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Vagaries
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An unexpected and inexplicable change
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Incessant
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Continuing without pause or interruption
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Modus operandi
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A particular way of doing something
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Propensity
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An inclination to behave in a certain way
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Opulence
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Great wealth or luxuriousness
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Fecundity
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Fruitfulness and fertility
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Guise
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A new form (used to describe a change)
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Benign
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Gentle and kind
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Decree
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An official order
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Expedite
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To make an action happen quicker
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Facetious/levity
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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour
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Brevity
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Saying a lot with few words
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Satyriasis
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Uncontrollable or excessive sexual desire in a man
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Prudent
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Acting with care and thought for the future
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Sagacious
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Having good judgement (wise)
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Insouciant
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Showing a casual lack of concern
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Esoteric
Specific conversation only interested/educated people would understand
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Efficacy
The ability to produce a desired or intended result (successfulness)
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Engender
Cause or give rise to
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Fealty
Formal acknowledgement of loyalty to a lord
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Enmity
A state or feeling of active opposition or hostility
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Profligacy
Reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources
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Nomenclature
The devising or choosing of names for things, especially in a science or other discipline
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Debride
To remove dead, contaminated material
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Unguent
A soft greasy or viscous substance used as ointment for lubrication
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Receptacle
A hollow object used to contain something
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Enshroud
Envelop and completely hide from view
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Thespian
An actor or actress
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Infallible
Incapable of being wrong
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Holistic
Dealing with or treating the whole of something and not just a part.
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Systemic
Relating to a system rather than localised
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Posterity
All future generations of people
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Gambrelled
That has been strung up on a gambrel (the top of a house which is distinct via having a roof consisting of two slopes with the second slope nearer the edge being steeper)
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Languor
Tiredness of inactivity. Especially when pleasurable
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Midmost
The very middle
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Discalced
Not wearing shoes
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Immolate
Kill or offer via sacrifice (usually burning)
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Escarpment
A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
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Laved
Wash
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Providential
Occurring at a favourable time, opportune.
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Earnestness
Sincere and intense conviction
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Advent
The arrival of a notable person or thing.
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Lank
Long, limp, and straight.
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Meconium
A mammalian infant's first stool
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Macadam
The road surface (tarmac) broken stone of even size, bound with tar or bitumen.
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Stropped
To sharpen with a strop, a device often wore on the belt
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Rachitic
Feeble and weak pertaining to rickets
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Parsable
Denoting to the analysis of speech in grammatical constituents.
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Devils advocate
A person who expresses a contentious opinion in order to provoke debate or test the strength of the opposing arguments
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Eclectic
Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.
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Polymath
Someone with extensive knowledge about different things.
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Illustrious
Well known and respected
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Mendicant
Given to begging
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Secular
Not connected with religious or spiritual matters.
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Midden
A dung hill or refuse heap
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Mattock
The opposing end to a pickaxe characterised by a wider blade
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Capricious
Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour
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Gaud
A showy and purely ornamental thing
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Stakebed
A truck with stakes as body
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Conflagration
An extensive fire
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Ensconce
Establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe place.
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Catatonic
Immobile or unresponsive stupor
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Insidiously
Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects
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Incredulously
In a manner indicating disbelief
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Venerable
Accorded a great deal of respect
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Innocuous
Not harmful or offensive
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Contralto
The lowest female signing voice
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Punitive
Inflicting or intended as punishment
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Cache
A collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place.
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Hygroscopic
Tending to absorb moisture from the air
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Assiduously
With great care and persistence
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Polymath
Someone with a vast array of knowledge
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Righteous
Morally right or justifiable
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Carrion
The decaying flesh of dead animals
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Plinth
A heavy base supporting a statue or vase
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Aperture
A hole or gap
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Cad
A man who behaves dishonourably especially towards a woman
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Gaunt
Lean and haggard because of disease/age
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Sustenance
Nourishment
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Estranged
No longer close or affectionate to someone
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Fastidious
Very attentive and corned with detail and accuracy
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Saleable
Able to be sold
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Sanguine
Optimistic, especially in a bad situation
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Loquacious
Talkative
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Habiliment
Clothing
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Gamut
The complete range of something
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Coterie
A small group of people with shared interests
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Litigious
Ready to take legal action to settle disputes
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Usurp
To take illegally or by force
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Cordite
A particular type of explosive
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Invalid
A person made weak or disabled by injury
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Obstinate
Stubborn
