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Mountains Beyond Mountains Vocab Flashcards

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Circuitous

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Indirect, round-about

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Tertiary

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Of the third order

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Daguerreotype

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Early kind of photograph

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Austere

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Stern and servere

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August

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Dignified

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Ebullience

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Exuberance

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Oeuvre

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All the creative works of a lifetime

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Catch 22

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Person becomes a victim of the practice no matter what choice they make

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Honorarium

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Money paid for services rendered when no precise amount was rendered

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Prophylaxis

A

Any prevention or protection from disease or an undesirable outcome

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Indigenous

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Native, inherent

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Encomium

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Formal expression of high praise

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Proselytize

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To try to convert someone

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Oxymoron

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Figure of speech where a two word phrase takes on a meaning beyond the simple denotative meanings of both words taken separately

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Roil

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To agitate

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Stentorian

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Very loud

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Inculcate

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To urge persistently

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Desultory

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Aimless, incidental

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Perfunctory

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Done without care or interest

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21
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Antebellum

A

Before the civil war

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Portico

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Porch or covered walk

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Implacable

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Relentless, inflexible

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Sardonic

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Disdainfully sarcastic

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Polymath

A

Person of great and diversified learning

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Fetid

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Having a very bad smell

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Nettlesome

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Irritating

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Vector

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An animal that transmits disease from a host to an uninflected organism

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Epidemiology

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The study of disease in population

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Palliation

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The easing of pain or severity

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Aphorism

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An adage, a maxim; a wise saying

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Proclivity

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A natural tendency

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Mordant

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Biting or caustic

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Egregious

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Remarkably or outrageously bad

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Leonine

A

Lion-like

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Countenance

A

A persons facial appearance

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Luddite

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A person opposed in principle to technological change (a pejorative term)

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Occam’s Razor

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The principle that states that the best explanation of an event is the simplest one, using the fewest possible assumptions

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Feckless

A

Weak, irresponsible

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Bibulous

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Fond of alcohol

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Restive

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Restless or unsettled

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Loathe

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To despise

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Loath

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Reluctant or hesitant

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Persona non grata

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A person who is not welcome

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Expunge

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To erase or delete

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Pseudonym

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A false name

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Agonal

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Having to do with the pangs of death

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Depredations

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Robbing; laying waste

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Profligate

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Recklessly extravagant

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Noxious

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Unwholesome

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Proximate

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Nearest in space, order, or time

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Rales

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Abnormal breathing sound

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Accoutrements

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Equipment

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Staunch

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To stop or close off

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Quixotic

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Foolishly idealistic

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Phalanx

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A group united for a single purpose

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Paradigm

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A pattern or model

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Gambit

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An opening move intended to gain advantage

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Commensurate

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Proportionate

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly defiant

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Sycophant

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A parasite; a brown-noser; a toady

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Peripatetic

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Wandering; itinerant

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Ancillary

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Subordinate; auxiliary

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Intractable

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Hard to work with, stubbornly defiant

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Oligarch

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A state ruled by only a very few who have power

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Incipient

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Just beginning to exist

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Anomaly

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Any abnormality

68
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Eschew

A

To avoid

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Prescient

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Foreknowledge

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Erudite

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Learned; scholarly

71
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Distal

A

Farthest from the center

72
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Tap tap

A

Pick up truck used as a taxi in Haiti

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