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Key Terms Group 2 Flashcards

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1
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Abate

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To lessen in intensity or degree

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Accolade

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An expression of praise

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Adulation

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Excessive priase; intense adoration

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Aesthetic

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Dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful

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Ameliorate

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To make better or more tolerable

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Ascetic

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One who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devoation

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Avarice

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Greed, esp. for wealth

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Burgeon

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To grow rapidly or flourish

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Bucolic

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Rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their people

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Cacophony

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Harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance

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Castigation

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Severe criticism or punishment

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Catalyst

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A substance that accelerates the rate of change of a chemical reaction; a person or thing that causes change

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Caustic

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Burning or stinging; causing corrosion

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Chary

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Wary; cautious; sparing

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Cogent

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Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing

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Complaisance

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The willingness to comply with the wishes of others

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Contentious

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Argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement

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Contrite

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Regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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Dearth

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Smallness of quantity; scarcity; a lack

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Demur

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To question or oppose

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Didactic

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Intended to teach or instruct

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Discretion

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Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

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Disinterested

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Free of bias or self-interested; impartial

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Dogmatic

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Expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles

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Ebullience

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The quality of lively or enthsuastic expression of thoughts and feelings

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Eclectic

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Composed of elements drawn from various sources

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Elegy

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A mournful poem, especially lamenting the dead

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Emollient

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Soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smooths the skin

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Empirical

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Based on observation or experiment

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand

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Ephemeral

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Brief; fleeting

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Esoteric

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Intended for or understood by a small, specific group

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Eulogy

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A speech honoring the dead

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Exonerate

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To remove blame

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Facetious

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Playful; humorous

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Fallacy

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An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief

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Furtive

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Marked by stealh; covert; surreptitious

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Gregarious

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Sociable, outgoing; enjoying the company of others

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Harangue

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To deliver a forceful or angry speech; ranting speech or writing

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Heretical

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Violating accepted dogma or convention

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Hyperbole

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An exaggerated statement, often as a figure of speech

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Impecunious

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Lacking funds; without money

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Incipient

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Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

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Inert

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Unmoving, lethargic, sluggish

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Innocuous

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Harmless, causing no damage

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Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

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Inveigle

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To obtain by deception or flattery

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Morose

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Sad, sullen

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Odious

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Evoking intense aversion or dislike

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Opaque

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Impenetrable by light

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Oscillation

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Swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm

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Penurious

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Penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous

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Pernicious

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Extremely harmful in a way that is not easily seen or noticed

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Peruse

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To examine with great care

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Pious

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Extremely reverent or devout

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Precursor

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One that precedes and indicates or announces another

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Preen

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To dress up, to primp, to groom oneself w elaborate care

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Prodigious

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Abundant in size, force, or extent

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Prolific

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Producing large volumes or amounts

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Putrefy

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To rot, to decay and give off a foul odor

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Quaff

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To drink deeply

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Quiescence

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Stillness, motionlessness, being at rest

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Redoubtable

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Awe-inspiring, worthy of honor

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Sanction

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Permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority

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Satire

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A literary work that ridicules or criticizes vice through humor or derision

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Squalid

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Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect

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Stoic

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Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast

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Supplant

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To take the place of; to supersede

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Torpid

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Lethargic; sluggish; dormant

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Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere at the same time; widespread; constantly encountered

72
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Urbane

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Sophisticated; refined; elegant

73
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Vilify

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To defame; to characterize harshly

74
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Viscous

A

Thick, sticky

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