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Key Terms Group 1 Flashcards

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1
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Aberrant

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Deviating from the norm (noun: aberration)

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Abscond

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To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Assuage

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To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality

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Arduous

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Strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort

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Audacious

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Daring and fearless; recklessly bold

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Austere

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Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic

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Axiomatic

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Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth

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Canonical

A

Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

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Capricious

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Inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable

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Censure

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To criticize severely, to officially rebuke

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Chicanery

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Trickery or subterfuge

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Connoisseur

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An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert

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Convoluted

A

Complex or complicated

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Disabuse

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To undeceive; to set right

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Discordant

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Conflicting; dissonant, or harsh in sound

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Disparate

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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Effrontery

A

Extreme boldness; presumptuousness

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Eloquent

A

Well-spoken, expressive, articulate

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Enervate

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To weaken; to reduce in vitality

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language with deceptive intent

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Erudite

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Very learned; scholarly

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Exculpate

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To exonerate; to clear of blame

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Exigent

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urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention

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Extemporaneous

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Improvised; done without preparation

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Filibuster

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Intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speechmaking

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Fulminate

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To loudly attack or denounce

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Ingenuous

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Artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication

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Inured

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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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Irascible

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Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts

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Laud

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To praise highly

35
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Lucid

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Clear; easily understood

36
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Magnanimity

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The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving

37
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Martial

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Associated with war

38
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Mundane

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Of the world; typical or concerned with the ordinary

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Nascent

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Coming into being; in early developmental stages

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Nebulous

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Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form

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Neologism

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A new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses

42
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Noxious

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Harmful; injurious

43
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Obtuse

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Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression

44
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Obviate

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To anticipate and make unnecessary

45
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Onerous

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Troubling; burdensome

46
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Paean

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A song or hymn of praise and thanks

47
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Parody

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A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect

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Perennial

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Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly

49
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Perfidy

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Intentional breach of faith; treachery

50
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Perfunctory

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Cursory; done without care or interest

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Perspicacious

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Acutely perceptive, having keen discrenment

52
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Prattle

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to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner

53
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Precipitate

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Acting with excessive haste or impulse (adj.) // to cause or happen before anticipated or required (v.)

54
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Predilection

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A disposition in favor of something; preference

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Prescience

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Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occuring

56
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Prevaricate

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To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead

57
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Qualms

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Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy

58
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Recant

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To retract, especially a previously held belief

59
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Refute

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To disprove; to successfully argue against

60
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Relegate

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To forcibly assign, especially lower

61
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Reticent

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Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts + feelings

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Solicitous

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Concerned and attentive; eager

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Sordid

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Characterized by filth, grime, or squalor

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Sporadic

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Occuring only occasionally

65
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Squander

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To waste by spending or using irresponsibly

66
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Static

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Not moving, active, or in motion; at rest

67
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Stupefy

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To stun, baffle, or amaze

68
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Stymie

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To block or thwart

69
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Synthesis

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The combination of parts to make a whole

70
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Torque

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A force causing rotation

71
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Tortuous

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Winding, twisting; excessively complicated

72
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Truculent

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Fierce and cruel; eager to fight

73
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Veracity

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Truthfulness

74
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Virulent

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Extremely harmful of poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic

75
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Voracious

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Having an insatiable appetite; ravenous

76
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Waver

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To sway; to be unsettled in opinion

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