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MC Vocab 1 Flashcards

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Patrician

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A person of refined upbringing, manners, and tastes.

A member of an aristocracy.

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Saffron

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A moderate or strong orange yellow to moderate orange.

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Cormorant

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Any of several large, widely distributed marine diving birds.
**A greedy, rapacious person

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Ominous

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Menacing, threatening

of or being an omen, especially an evil one

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Tenure

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The act, fact, manner, or condition of holding something in one’s possession as real estate or an office; occupation

  1. A period during which something is held.
  2. The status of holding one’s position on a permanent basis.
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Dissipate

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  1. To break apart or disappear; to drive away; cause to vanish
  2. To spend or expend wastefully; squander, exhaust
  3. To cause to lose irreversibly
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Cavalier

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  1. Showing arrogant or offhand disregard; dismissive

2. Carefree and nonchalant; jaunty

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Sallow

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Of a sickly yellowish hue or complexion

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Evanescence

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Dissipation or disappearance, like a vapor

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Harbinger

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one that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner

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Manifestation

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  1. An indication of the existence, reality, or presence of something
  2. one of the forms in which someone or something is revealed
  3. Public demonstration
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Acrid

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  1. Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter to the taste or smell.
  2. Caustic in language or tone
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Endemic

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  1. prevalent in or limited to a particular locality, region, or people.
  2. Native to or limited to a certain region
  3. common in or inherent to an enterprise or situation
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Storied

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  1. Celebrated or famous in history or story

2. Ornamented with designs representing scenes from history, legend, or story

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Infernal

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  1. of or relating to a lower world of the dead; of or relating to hell
  2. fiendish; diabolical; awful
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Lineaments

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  1. distinctive shape, contour, or line, especially of the face
  2. A definitive characteristic feature
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Bilious

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  1. of, relating to, or containing bile
  2. excess secretion of bile; sickly
  3. resembling bile in color
  4. having peevish disposition; ill-humored
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Antipathy

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  1. extreme dislike; aversion or repugnance
  2. a feeling of aversion
  3. inherent incompatibility or inability to mix
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Sullen

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  1. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky
  2. gloomy or somber in tone or color
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Insidious

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  1. working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner
  2. intended to entrap; treacherous
  3. beguiling but harmful; alluring
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Instigator

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person who initiates or brings something about, often by enticing

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Vicarious

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  1. experienced or felt empathy with or imaginary participation in the life of another person
  2. endured or done by one person substituting for another
  3. committed or entrusted to one another
  4. occurring in or performed by a part of the body not associated with a certain function
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Imperious

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  1. arrogantly domineering or overbearing
  2. urgent; pressing
  3. regal; imperial
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Petulant

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  1. unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish

2. contemptuous in speech or behavior

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Innate

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  1. existing naturally or by heredity rather than being learned through experience.
  2. possessed as an essential characteristic
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Inordinate

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  1. exceeding reasonable limits; immoderate

2. not regulated; disorderly

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Coddle

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  1. To cook in water just below the boiling point

2. to treat indulgently; baby

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Audacious

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  1. fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold
  2. unrestrained by convention or propriety; brazen or insolent
  3. spirited and original
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Surreptitious

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obtained, done, or made by clandestine or stealthy means

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Clandestine

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Kept or done in secret, often to conceal an illicit or improper purpose

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Retaliation

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a response to an action done to oneself or an associate, especially an attack or injury to someone as a response to a hurtful action

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Deprecatory

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  1. expressing disapproval or criticism

2. mildly disparaging or uncomplimentary, especially to oneself

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Derisive

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mocking; jeering

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Destitute

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  1. lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished
  2. utterly lacking; devoid
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Animosity

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  1. bitter hostility or open enmity; active hatred

2. a hostile feeling or act

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Paradox

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a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth

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Metonymy

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a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it

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Hyperbole

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a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect

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Parallelism

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(parallel structure) the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures

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Synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole

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