Module 5 Vocabulary Flashcards

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abhorrent

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ab·hor·rent (ăb-hôrənt, -hŏr-)
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adj.
1. Disgusting, loathsome, or repellent.
2. Feeling repugnance or loathing.

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amain

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: with all one’s might
to a high degree : EXCEEDINGLY

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bedight

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To dress or array.

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bemuse

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  1. To cause to be bewildered; confuse.
  2. To occupy the attention of; absorb or engross: The book bemused him for days.
  3. Usage Problem To cause to be mildly or wryly amused: “Unlike William McKinley,
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boorish

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Resembling or characteristic of a boor; rude and clumsy in behavior.

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cerement

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  1. Cerecloth.
  2. often cerements A burial garment.
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churlish

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  1. Having a bad disposition; surly: “as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear” (Shakespeare).
  2. Archaic Of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar.
  3. Archaic Difficult to work with; intractable. Used as of soil.
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colossal

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  1. Of great size, extent, or amount; immense. See Synonyms at enormous.
  2. Of great scope or consequence; monumental: a colossal blunder.
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extremity

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  1. The outermost or farthest point or portion: at the extremity of the peninsula.
  2. The greatest or utmost degree: the extremity of despair.
  3. Grave danger, necessity, or distress: people in extremity.
  4. An extreme or severe measure: had to resort to extremities in the crisis.
    5.
    a. A bodily limb: She is in a wheelchair because of weakness of the lower extremities.
    b. extremities The hands and feet: Frostbite affects the extremities first.
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fester

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  1. To generate pus; suppurate.
  2. To form an ulcer.
  3. To undergo decay; rot.
    4.
    a. To be or become an increasing source of irritation or poisoning; rankle: bitterness that festered and grew.
    b. To be subject to or exist in a condition of decline: allowed the once beautiful park to fester.
    v. tr.
    To infect, inflame, or corrupt.
    n.
    A small festering sore or ulcer; a pustule.
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flagrant

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  1. Conspicuously bad, offensive, or reprehensible: a flagrant miscarriage of justice. See Usage Note at blatant.
  2. Obsolete Flaming; blazing.
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frigate

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  1. A warship that is smaller than a destroyer and used primarily for escort duty.
  2. A high-speed, medium-sized sailing war vessel of the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s.
  3. Obsolete A fast, light vessel, such as a sailboat.
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laving

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  1. To wash; bathe.
  2. To lap or wash against: Waves laved the shore.
  3. To refresh or soothe as if by washing: “The quiet and the cool laved her” (Edna Ferber).
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luminous

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a. Emitting light, especially in the dark; shining.
b. Reflecting light; illuminated: “He watched a luminous cloud drifting up from the Gulf” (Tim Gautreaux). See Synonyms at bright.
2. Having a high degree of saturation: a luminous green.
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a. Presented or perceived clearly or vividly: luminous memories.
b. Enlightened or intelligent: luminous ideas.

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manifold

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adj.
1. Many and varied; of many kinds; multiple: our manifold failings.
2. Having many features or forms: manifold intelligence.
3. Being such for a variety of reasons: a manifold traitor.
4. Consisting of or operating several devices of one kind at the same time.
n.
1. A whole composed of diverse elements.
2. One of several copies.
3. A pipe or chamber having multiple apertures for making connections.
4. Mathematics A topological space in which each point has a neighborhood that is equivalent to a neighborhood in Euclidean space. The surface of a sphere is a two-dimensional manifold because the neighborhood of each point is equivalent to a part of the plane.
tr.v. man·i·fold·ed, man·i·fold·ing, man·i·folds
1. To make several copies of, as with carbon paper.
2. To make manifold; multiply.

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oppress

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  1. To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny.
  2. To cause to feel worried or depressed: “People were at a loss … oppressed by the atmosphere of the dead man’s room” (Ward Just).
  3. Obsolete To overwhelm or crush.
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rime

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  1. A white incrustation of ice formed when supercooled water droplets freeze almost instantly on contact with a solid surface.
  2. A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film: “A meal couldn’t leave us feeling really full unless it laid down a rime of fat globules in our mouths and stomachs” (James Fallows).
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spartan

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  1. Of or relating to Sparta or its people.
  2. also spartan
    a. Rigorously self-disciplined or self-restrained.
    b. Simple, frugal, or austere: a Spartan diet; a spartan lifestyle.
    c. Marked by brevity of speech; laconic.
    d. Courageous in the face of pain, danger, or adversity.
    n.
  3. A citizen of Sparta.
  4. One of Spartan character.
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tranquil

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  1. Free from commotion or disturbance: a tranquil lake; a tranquil evening.
  2. Free from anxiety, tension, or restlessness; composed: a tranquil mind. See Synonyms at calm.
  3. Steady; even: a tranquil flame.
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tremulous

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adj.
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a. Marked by trembling, quivering, or shaking: tremulous hands.
b. Marked by a rapid varying between pitches or tones: a tremulous voice.
2. Timid or fearful: “the tremulous daughter who never left her father’s house” (Margo Jefferson).

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visage

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n.
1. The face or facial expression of a person; countenance.
2. Appearance; aspect: the bleak visage of winter.

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winsome

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Charming, often in a childlike or naive way.

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wizened

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Withered