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Latin Words Flashcards

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Adumbrate

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V.

To produce a faint image

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Avocation

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N.

Hobby or minor occupation

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Centuple

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Adj.

A hundred times as great

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Conflagration

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N.

A destructive fire

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Disinter

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V.

To dig up

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Garrulous

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Adj

Tending to talk a lot withot making sense

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Juxtaposition

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N.

Comparing by putting the items side by side

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Matron

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N.

Women in charge of domestic and medical arrangements

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Missire

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N.

A written message

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Obsequious

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Adj.

Obident & well-behaved

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Perennial

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Adj.

Lasting or existing for a long time

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Prediate

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V.

To proclaim or declare

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Providence

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N.

Forseeing and guidance of God

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Recapitulate

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V.

To review by brief summer; outline

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Terrier

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N.

Of or relating to Earth; earthly

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Aggregation

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N.

A group or mass of distinct or varied things

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Apposite

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Adj.

Suitable, well-adaptedc relevant

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Circumspect

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Adj.

Discreet & watchful

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Colloquy

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N.

A conversational exchange; dialogue

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Consign

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V.

To give over to the care of another; in trust

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Dictum

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N.

A formal announcement; motto

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Ductility

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Adj.

Capable of being hammered out thin; malleability

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Interdict

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N. & V.

An authoritice Prohibition; prohibition

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Introspect

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N.

Observation or examination of one’s own thoughts; self-analysis

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Locus

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N.

A place; location

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Malediction

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N.

A curse; imprecation

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Malevolent

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Adj.

Wishing evil; wicked

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Mortician

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N.
Undertaker
S- embalmer

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Prescribe

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V.

To advise

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Proscribe

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V.

To forbid; ban

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Allocate

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V.

To set apart for a particular purpose; Allot

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Benediction

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N.

A utterance of good wishes; approval

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Comport

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V.

To conduct oneself; behave

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Diffident

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Adj.

Lacking confidence in onems own ability; vashful

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Indict

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V.

To charge with a crime; charge

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Inter

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V.

A place in a grave or tomb; bury

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Novitiate

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N.

A period or state of being a beginner; learner

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Perfidious

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Adj.

Deliberately faithless or treacherous; deceitful

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Purport

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V.

to present as an original; to proclaim

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Soliloquy

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N.

An actbof talking as if alone; aside

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Specter

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N.

A ghost; apparition

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Temporize

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V.

To avoid making decision; procrastinate

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Transliteration

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N.

The change into corresponding characters of another language; translate

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Superannuated

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Adj.

Retired because of new technology; antiquated

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Porter

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N.

A person who carries luggage; bellhop

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Allocution

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N.

A formal speech; giving advice, address

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Confraternity

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N. A brotherhood; affiliation

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Convocation

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N.

The act of calling everyone together; assumins

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Egregious

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Adj.

Very bad; easily noticed, atrocious

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Evanescent

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Adj.

Appearing for a short time; momentary

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Extemporaneous

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Adj.

Done without preparation; improvised

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Fastidious

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Adj.

Excessively particular; meticulous

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Fiduciary

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N. & Adj.

A person who is legally entitled to make decisions for you; trustee

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Interlocutor

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N.

A person who takes part in a conversation; conversationalist

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Interurban

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Adj.

Relating to or connecting urban areas; metropolitan

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Irrevocable

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Adj.

Not able to changed; permanent

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Maladroit

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Adj.

Unskillful; clumsy

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Manumit

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V.

To release from captivity;free

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Repository

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N.

A place where things are deposited; archive

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Urbanity

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N.

Courtesy, politeness; elegance

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