Lesson 1 Flashcards

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Excruciating

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Extreme pain, agony, or intense discomfort

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Vague

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Unclear, imprice, or lacking details or clarity

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Enormous

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Extremely large

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Tidy

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Neat, Well-organized

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Daunting

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Intimidating, challenging, overwhelming

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Laborious

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Requires a lot of effort, hard work

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Bizarre

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Very strange, unusual

He told us a bizarre story about a talking cat that solved crimes.

The magician performed a series of bizarre tricks that defied explanation.

I had a bizarre dream last night where I was floating in the air and talking to animals.

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Feasible

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Possible, practical, achievable

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Reluctant

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Hesitation, unwillingness

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Cognizant

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Having knowledge or awareness

Ex: When you love someone, you should always be cognizant of how your words affect them.

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Diffident

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Shy, quiet, modest

Ex: The most diffident student surprised her classmates by getting the highest grades.

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Demure

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Quiet, modest, reserved

Ex: No one expected the demure teen to be such an amazing singer.

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Verb

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A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

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Noun

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A noun is a word that refers to a thing, person, animal, a place, quality, an idea or an action.

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Pronoun

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A pronoun (I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody, etc.) is a word that takes the place of a noun.

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16
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Inure

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To become immune to unpleasant events or situations

Ex:Living in the northeast will inure you to cold weather.

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Serendipity

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Luck, finding good things without looking for them

Ex: The concert was sold out but by serendipity, my friend had bought me a ticket for my birthday.)

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Fastidious

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Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.

Ex: He is fastidious about his appearance and hates wrinkled or torn clothing.)

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Ineffable

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Unspeakable, incapable of being expressed through words

Ex: Watching the whales play from the deck of a cruise ship was an ineffable experience.)

20
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Abstruse

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Hard to comprehend

Ex:Some of the more advanced theories were too abstruse for the philosophy students.