list 5 Flashcards by Xuan Bui | Brainscape

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Artifact

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Object made by human being

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Artifice

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Deception

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Artisan

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Manually skilled worker

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Artless

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Without guile, open and honest

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Ascendancy

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Controlling influence or domination

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Ascertain

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Find out for certain

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Ascetic

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Practicing self denial

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Asinine

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Stupid

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Aspire

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Seek to attain

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Assail

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Assault

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Assent

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Agree or accept

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Assert

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Declare or state with confused

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Assessment

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Evaluation

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Assiduous

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Diligent

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Assimilate

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Absorb or call is to become homogenous

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Assuage

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Ease or lessen pain or satisfy Hunger

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Assumption

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Something taken for granted

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Assurance

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Promise or pledge or certainty

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Astronomical

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Enormously large or extensive

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Astute

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Wise; shrewd; keen

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Asylum

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Place of refuge or shelter; protection

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Assymetric

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Not identical on both sides of a dividing central line

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Atheistic

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Denying the existence of God

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Atla

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Bound volume of maps, charts, or tables

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Atone

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Make amends for, pay for

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Atrocity

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Brutal deed

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Atrophy

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Waste away

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Attain

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Achieve or accomplish

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Attentive

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Alert and watchful or considerate or thoughtful

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Attenuate

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Make thin; weaken

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Attest

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Testify or bear witness

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Attribute

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Essential quality or ascribe; explain

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Attrition

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Gradual decrease in numbers

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Atypical

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Not normal

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Audacious

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Daring bold

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Audit

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Examination of accounts

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Auditory

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Pertaining to the sense of hearing

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Augment

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Increase; add to

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August

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Impressive

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Auspicious

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Favoring success

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Austere

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Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented

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Authenticate

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Confirm as genuine

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Authoritarian

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Subordinating the Individual to the state; completely dominating another’s will

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Authoritative

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Having the weight of authority

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Autocratic

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Having absolute, unchecked power

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Automaton

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Robot

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Autonomous

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Self governing

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Auxiliary

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Helper

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Avalanche

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Great mass of falling snow