Internet Words II Flashcards

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Aquiline

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shaped like an eagle’s beak; hooked.

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Arcadian

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rural, rustic, or pastoral, especially suggesting simple, innocent contentment.

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Arid

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being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:

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Arresting

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attracting or capable of attracting attention or interest; striking:

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Artful

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slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky:

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Articulate

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to utter clearly and distinctly; pronounce with clarity.

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Artifacts

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any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use.

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Artifices

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a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile.

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Artisans

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a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.

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Artless

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free from deceit, cunning, or craftiness; ingenuous:

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Ascertain

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to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine:

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Ascetic

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a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.

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Askance

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with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval:

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Assent

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to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to):

to give in; yield; concede:

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Asserts

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to state with assurance, confidence, or force; state strongly or positively; affirm; aver:

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Assiduous

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constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive:

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Assuage

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to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate:

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Austerity

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austere quality; severity of manner, life, etc.; sternness.

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Autodidact

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A self-taught person.

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Avant garde

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the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.

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Avaricious

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characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.

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Aver

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to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.

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Averse

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having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed:

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Aversion

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a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed by to):

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Balkanized
to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.
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Banal
devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite:
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Bane
a person or thing that ruins or spoils: death; destruction; ruin.
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Baneful
destructive; pernicious:
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Pernicious
fatal
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Baroque
of or relating to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century of or relating to the musical period following the Renaissance, extending roughly from 1600 to 1750.
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Bask
to lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth:
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Bedlam
a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
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Beguiled
to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
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Belie
to misrepresent:
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Belletristic
literature regarded as a fine art, especially as having a purely aesthetic function.
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Bellicose
inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
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Besmirch
to soil; tarnish; discolor. to detract from the honor or luster of:
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Besotted
intoxicated; drunk: infatuated or obsessed:
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Bifurcated
to divide or fork into two branches.
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Blandishments
something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice, etc.:
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Blatant
offensively noisy or loud; clamorous:
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Blithe
joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful:
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Blunt
to weaken or impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility of:
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Bodes
to announce beforehand; predict.
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Bombastic
High-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.
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Bonobo
pygmy chimpanzee.
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Boondoggle
work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy.
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Boorish
of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
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Brandishes
to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish:
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Bucolic
of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
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Buoyancy
the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
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Burgeoning
to grow or develop quickly; flourish:
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Bustle
to move or act with a great show of energy
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Buttress
any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.