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Level 3 Flashcards

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Cataclysm n.

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Violent event that brings about change (usually deaing with earth crust or natural disaster). The world is in cataclysm.

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Quiescent

(spelled quiet+scent, ONLY ONE ‘i’)

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Inactive. Still. Quietly at rest, still. how long will the opressed stay quiescent. The dog was only quiescent for a fourth of the night.

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Stigma

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A mark of infamy. Feminists like her wanted to forego the whore stigma.

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Construe

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To interpret. Bush declared he would ‘construe’ the law he himself signed how he saw fit.

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Fastidious

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Excessively particular, hard to please

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Inscrutable

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Incapable of being scrutinized/investigated/seen

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Categorical

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Absolute, downright

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Clairvoyant

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Mystical ability to talk to dead people,
predict future,
know about things you weren’t physically there to witness in person.

Able to see through things, beyond natural vision, a visionary, prophet

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Defray costs

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To keep at bay by way of payment. The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip. Defray the costs. Defray the expenditure.

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Taciturn person

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Habitually untalkative. Tending to be quiet.

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Terse speaking style

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Brief and direct, no excess superfluity in speech.

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Boon

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Good benefit. Help, something to be grateful for. The greatest boon for me is the lack of complexity the technology introduces to our work.

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Indigent adj.

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In need. Poor, Lacking lifes necessities. The widow, the lowly, the indigent are the ones to be served. In-need-gent.

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Heterogeneous vs Homogeneous

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Different in kind, unlike vs alike.

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Proletariat

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Working class, poor

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Glib Polyglot

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A person who not only learns and speaks different languages with ease but he is glib and Readily FLUENT and often thoughtlessly, easy actions/manner

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Penchant

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Strong inclination

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Solicitous

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Showing concern for someone’s well being, having concern (ex- for future), full of desire and eagerness.

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Pittance

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A small amt, scanty remuneration

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Dearth

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Lack, scarcity

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Circumscribe

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Limit.

To surround perimeter, draw a line around, enclose within bounds

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Ingratiating

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Deliberately meant to gain favor, _ manner

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Mercenary

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Acting merely for $ or reward, venal (willing to sell ones influence especially for a bribe)

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Extemporize

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Freestyle, improvize

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Erudite

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Learned, has great knowledge

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Austere (face)

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Plain but stern (unfriendly). Serious looking face, strict, forbidding, not to be mistaken with gaunt.

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Laconic, adj.

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Terse in ones writing or speech. Using few words, but so few as to be rude or mysterious.

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Ameliorate

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To make bearable, improve, amend

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Expunge

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Blot out

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Circumspect

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Prudent

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Foible

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Minor Character weakness

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Fervent

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Having Fiery warmth of spirit, enthusiasm

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Protract

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Extend

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Ostentacious

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Showy,

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Quandary (2 a’s)

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Difficult problem, dilemma. My quandary is… I am in a quandary…

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Censure

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Criticize harshly (tougher than admonished)

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Cavil

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To nag about, he finds something to _ at in everything she says.

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Assimilate to the culture

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Take in as ones own

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Rescind

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Repeal, invalidate

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Discernible

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Capable of being distinguished/differentiated.

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Narcissism

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Excessive self-love

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Incriminate

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Charge of a wrongdoing

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Perquisite

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Perk to job, such as a gratuity

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Adroit

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Expert in use of hands/body, cleverly skillful. _ debater.

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Platitude

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Trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound

46
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Vendetta

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Private feud

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Lucid dreams

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Believable. Easily understood, completely comprehensible, transparent

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Salient

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Prominent, conspicuous

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Allude

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To refer to casually/indirectly

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Venal

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Able to be bribed. A _ administration, mercenaries are _.

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Quietus n.

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The Final blow (noun). That which silences claims. Giving drug dealers their quietus is the way to go. Put the quietus to your prayers, nothing will change here.

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Indisposed

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Mildly ill, clearly disinclined. He was indisposed to doing the task.

53
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Exigent

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Requiring immediate attention and special attention too.

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Upheaval

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Major change that causes unrest, conflict. Event in which earth surface comes up violently.

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Ebullition

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Eruption. Sudden violent outburst , upheaval display.

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Occident

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West

57
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Annul

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Nullify. To make void. Reduce to nothing.

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Asperity

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Harshness. The asperity of life is tough on asperger sufferers.

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Acerbic

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Expressing acidic harsh criticism in a clever way, adding to the asperity of inner city life.

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Solicit

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To ask

61
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Solicitude

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To care about.

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