List 1 Flashcards by sivan Ben-hayun | Brainscape

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Abound

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Plentiful

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Abduction

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Kidnapping

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Absurd

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Ridiculous

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Adhere

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To stick to

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Accomplice

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Helper

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Afoot

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In motion

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Agitate

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To disturb, trouble or shake and object

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Airtight

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Perfect

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Allegiance

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Loyalty

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Amass

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To collect a lot of

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Amity

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Friendship

1 divergent faction

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Anchor

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To hold in place

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Anonymous

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Without a name

Anon hate

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Apparel

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Cloths

Where you won’t shop

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Apprehend

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To catch and take into custody
To understand

Like to comprehend

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Arbiter

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One who settles a dispute

An arbiter bites the bullet

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Ascending

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Going up

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Asylum

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Shelter

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Auctioneer

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One who sells goods at an auction

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Avert

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To avoid

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Babble

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To talk foolishly or too much

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Barbaric

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Primitive; uncivilized

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Bid

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To make an offer

To order or command

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Bloated

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Swollen

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Bogus

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Fake

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Brace

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To support

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Breadth

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How broad something is

Bread is a broad category of baked goods

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Buoyant

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Happy

2. Able to float

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Byway

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Side road

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Cadet

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Military student

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Candid

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Honest; open; outspoken

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Carnivorous

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Meat eating

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Censure

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To criticize harshly; to blame

Many people censure censoring

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Chronic

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Constant

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Collage

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A collection of pictures or images

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Compassionate

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Kind; sympathetic

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Complacent

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Self satisfied, smug

Me (1st) place

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Composer

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One who writes music

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Compress

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To press together

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Conclusive

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Definite; proven

Conclusion

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Confectioner

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Maker if candy

Confectionate sugar

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Connoisseur

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Expert

Con noise because an expert doesn’t say much

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Consequential

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Important
Resulting

It’s important to remember the consequences

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Conspiracy

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A secret plan to do something unlawful

Pirates have conspiracies

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Contour

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Curve; shape

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Criterion

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One criteria

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Cumulative

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Including everything from the beginning

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Dabble

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To take a mild interest in something

If babble is to talk too much about something, to dabble is to not do it enough to talk about it

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Decay

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To rot

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Decode

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To translate a code into understandable language

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Deflate

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To remove air from something
2: to discourage

If you were to deflate my tires you would deflate my hopes of getting home before curfew

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Delete

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To remove

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Demote

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To lower in rank

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Descendant

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Relative from a younger generation

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Detect

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To notice

Detectives detect things

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Devise

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To plan; to design

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Dignity

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Honor

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Directory

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A book of names, addresses

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Discipline

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Noun- ability to practice regulations

2. Verb- to punish

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Discourse

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Speech; conversation

In dis course the teacher gives lots of speeches

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Discriminate

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To notice differences

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Dishearten

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To discourage

Diss my hearts desire

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Dismay

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Sadness; disappointment

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Disrepute

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Having a bad reputation

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Distant

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Unfriendly

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Distress

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Worry; unhappiness

Did stress is causing me unhappiness

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Document

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To support with evident

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Drought

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Severe dryness

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Duration

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How long something is

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Dynamics

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The study of motion

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Eccentric

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Strange; unusual in the interesting way

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Egoist

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One who pays too much attention to themselves

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Embrace

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To hug

2. To accept

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Emotive

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Emotional

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Endow

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To give a talent or quality to someone

2. To give money to

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Enlighten

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To inform; to make clear

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Entity

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Object: thing

2. Living being

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Equilibrium

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Balance

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Error

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Mistake (baseball)

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Evade

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To escape from; to avoid

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Excerpt

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A part of a quote or passage

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Exhibitionist

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One who enjoys showing off

Makes themselves an exhibit

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Expertise

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Skill

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Extravagance

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Wasteful spending

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Fabricate

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To creat

2. To lie

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Farfetched

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Unbelievable

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Flourish

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To grow; to be successful

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Forethought

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Thinking beforehand

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Fragment

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Noun- a broken piece

2. Verb- to break into pieces

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Fraudulent

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Fake

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Fumble

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A mistake in football

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Galaxy

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A group of stars

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Ghastly

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Horrible

That smell if that ghas is ghastly

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Glutton

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One who wats too much

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Grandiose

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Magnificent

2. Showy

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Grove

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Small forest or field if trees

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Guzzle

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To drink quickly

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Habitable

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Fit to be lived in

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Hangar

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Shelter for airplanes

The plans hang in the hangar

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Haze

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Fog; mist

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Heir

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A person who inherits

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Hibernation

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In animals, the state of sleeping through winter; inactivity

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Home run

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Score in baseball

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Hurl

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To throw forcefully

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Hypothesis

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Assumption; possible explanation