Laura's Vocabs Flashcards by elisa ricco

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Connote

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Suggest or imply in addition to the precise meaning, literal meaning

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Strive

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To struggle, to make a great effort

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Endeavor

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To make an effort, to try very hard

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Malevolent

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Malicious, evil

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Amalgamate

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Mix, combine, unite societies

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Stray

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Wander, lose one’s way

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Acumen

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Keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment

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Sporadic

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Happening from time to time

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Audacious

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Bold

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Affinity

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Close connections, relationship

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Animosity

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Strong dislike

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Appease

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Make quiet or calm

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Adulterate

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To make impure, poor in quality

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Apt

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Well-suited

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Accolade

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Praise, approval

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Impermeable

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That cannot be permeated

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Abide

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Be faithful, to endure

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Catalyst

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Substance that causes something to happen

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Affable

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Pilots and friendly

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Judicious

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Sound in judgment, wise

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Ameliorate

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Improve, make better

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Succumb

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Yield, die

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Derivative

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Unoriginal , obtained from another source

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Dormant

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In state of inactivity but awaiting development

Encapsulate

Enclose in a capsule

Eradicate

To get rid of - usually completely

Engulf

To swallow up

Evoke

To call up or bring out

Presentiment

Anticipatory fear, premonition

Ambivalent

Having both of two contrary meanings

Pertain

Belong as a part, have reference to

Constrict

Make tight or smaller

Luminary

Star, light-giving body

Perish

Destroyed

Abstruse

Difficult to comprehend

Turbulence

Uncontrollable violent

Aberration

Straying away from what is normal

Arcane

Known or understood by very few

Paradigm

A model example or pattern

Precursors

A person or thing that precedes