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Lesson 4 Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Aesthetic

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  • Concerned with notions such as the beautiful and the ugly

* concerned with the study of the mind and emotions

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Aloof

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  • At a distance, especially in feeling or interest
  • reserved or reticent
  • indifferent or disinterested
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Archaic

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  • Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period
  • Antiquated or ancient
  • Forming earliest age
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Assuage

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To make milder or less severe

Mitigate or relieve to ease or appease

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Belie

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  • To show to be false
  • Contradict
  • Misrepresent
  • Slander or to lie about
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Daunt

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  • to overcome with fear

* intimidate

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Contentious

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  • tending to argue or strife
  • quarrelsome
  • Characterized by argument or controversy
  • caused or involving
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Debilitate

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  • To make weak or feeble

* Hinder or delay

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Discord

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  • Lack of concord or harmony between persons or things

* Disagreement

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Dissemination

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  • spreading widely

* spreading information

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Dogmatic

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  • Asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or Arrogant manner

* any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc

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Duplicity

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  • Instance or act of such deceitfulness
  • state of having 2 elements or parts
  • deceitfulness in speech or conduct as by speaking or acting in 2 different ways to different people
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Egocentric

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  • Having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things
  • having little or no regard for interests, beliefs, or attitudes other than ones own
  • self centered
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Euphemism

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Substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt.

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Gluttonous

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  • Tending to eat and drink excessively
  • voracious
  • greedy
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Mundane

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  • common
  • ordinary
  • banal
  • unimaginative
  • widely earthly
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Ominous

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  • Portending evil or harm
  • forbidding
  • Threatening
  • Indicating the nature of a future event for good or evil
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Petulance

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  • The state or quality of being petulant

* Bad tempered

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Pompous

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  • Characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance.
  • Ostentatiously lofty or high-flown
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Precocious

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  • Unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development
  • Prematurely developed
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Slothful

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  • Sluggardly
  • Lazy
  • Not easily aroused to activity
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Trivia

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• Matters or things that are very unimportant

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Verbose

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  • Use of many or too many words

* wordy

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Virulent

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  • Actively poisonous
  • Intensely noxious
  • Highly infective
  • Malignant or deadly
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Rolatile

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  • Evaporating rapidly

* explosive

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Amorphous

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  • Lacking definite form
  • having no specific shape
  • formless
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Connotation

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That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the world’s literal meaning

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Context

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Words, events, or circumstances that help determine the meaning

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Coordination

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Grammatical order equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but

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Counterargument

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A challenge to a position; an opposing argument

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Credible

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Worthy of belief; trustworthy

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Cumulative sentence

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An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail

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Declarative sentence

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A sentence that make a statement

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Deduction

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Reasoning from general to specific

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Denotation

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The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition

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Dialtectal journal

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A double column journal in which one writes a quotation in one column and reflections on that quotation in the other column

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