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Monthly Vocab Quiz Flashcards

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Resembling or having the properties of oil / marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality

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Oleaginous

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To contend against; oppose

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Repugn

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  1. One accused with or charged with a crime
  2. One guilty of a crime or fault
  3. The source or cause of a problem
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Culprit

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To make more violent, bitter, or severe

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Exacerbate

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  1. The action, process, or fact of spreading apart

2. A divergence of opinion

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Divarication

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  1. Of, relating to, or connected with the sense of smell
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Olfactory

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  1. Dominant influence or authority of others

2. The social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence by a dominant group

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Hegemony

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  1. The use of a word to modify or govern syntacticly two are more words with only one of which it formally agrees in number, gender, or case
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Syllepsis

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  1. A long discussion or meeting usually between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication
  2. Idle talk, misleading or beguiling speech
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Palaver

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Extremely sharp or keen

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Rapier

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The world viewed as a community in which distance and isolation have been dramatically reduced by electronic media

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Global village

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Immeasurably or incalculably small

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Infinitesimal

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Great haste

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Posthaste

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One who attempts to put into effect an abstract doctrine or theory with little or no regard for practical difficulties

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Doctrinaire

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  1. An opinion or decision that is based on careful thought
  2. The act or process of forming an opinion or making a decision after careful thought
  3. The ability to make good decisions about what should be done
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Judgement

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Brought back - used postpositively

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Redux

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  1. Respect or honor

2. Something that is done to honor someone or something

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Homage

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  1. Hopeful or romantic in a way that is not practical

2. Foolishly impractical, especially in the pursuit of ideals

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Quixotic

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Of or relating to trees

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Arboreal

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A theory in philosophy that your own existence is the only thing that is real or can be known

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Solipsism

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An original model on which something is patterned: archetype

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Prototype

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Conspicuous; especially bad

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Egregious

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Prevalent especially to an increasing degree

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Rife

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Volunteering ones services where they are neither asked nor needed

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Officious

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A melodic phrase or figure that accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation in a music drama

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Leitmotif

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Second to last

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Penultimate

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One who is extremely fond of shopping

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Shopaholic

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To laugh at contemptuously

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Deride

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Having a smooth rich flow, filled with something sweet

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Mellifluous

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To assert without proof or before proving

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Allege

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Not able to be compared

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Incommensurable

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The ringing or sounding of bells, a jingling or tinkling sound as if of bells

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Tintinnabulation

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A going or marching: advance; especially: a military advance

A difficult and dangerous military retreat

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Anabasis

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Not open to question, indisputable

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Incontrovertible

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Lacking in candor; also: giving a false appearance of simple frankness: calculating

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Disingenuous

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Anxiety arising from awareness of guilt
Distress of mind over an anticipated action or result
A twinge of misgiving: scruple

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Compunction

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Occurring every day
Belonging to each day: everyday
Commonplace, ordinary

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Quotidian

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To pull up by the roots

To do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots

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Eradicate

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A landscape method developed especially for arid and semiarid climates that utilizes water conserving techniques (such as the use of drought-tolerant plants, mulch, and efficient irrigation)

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Xeriscape

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Popular sentiment

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Vox populi

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Deliberately affected: theatrical

Of or relating to actors, acting, or the theater

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Histrionic

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Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of Thraso: bragging, boastful

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Thrasonical

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Having a changeable luster or color with an undulating narrow band of white light

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Chatoyant

44
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Sort, kind

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Ilk

45
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Attempt to ingratiate oneself

To curry favor with (as by flattery)

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Apple-polish

46
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Producing wealth, profitable

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Lucrative

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To win over by wiles: entice

To acquire by ingenuity or flattery: wangle

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Inveigle

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The character of a language

An intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate

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Sprachgefühl

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Perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion
Not easily overcome or removed

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Obstinate

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To have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred); also: claim
Intend purpose

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Purport

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To draw or paint the surface

To outline in clear sharp detail

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Limn

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Governed or characterized by caprice: impulsive, unpredictable

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Capricious

53
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Joint, connection

A point of time, especially: one made critical by a concurrence of circumstances

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Juncture

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