NSF regionals vocabulary f28 Flashcards by Awesome Cool | Brainscape

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Promulgate

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To promote or make widely known

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Pronto

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Promptly, quickly

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Propensity

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A inclination or natural tendency

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Propinquity

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Nearness in place, very close

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Props

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A object used in a play or dance

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Prosaic

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Commonplace, dull

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Prostrate

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Lying stretched out on the ground

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Providence

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The foreseeing of god and guidance of god

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Proxy

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The authority of representing someone else

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Puckish

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Playful in a mischievous way

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Purchase

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To buy with a form of money

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Purple patch

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A run of success or good luck

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Pyre

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A heap of wood used for burning a corpse

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Quagmire

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A soft boggy area of land

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Quaint

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Attractively old fashioned or unusual

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Quicksilver

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The metallic element mercury

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Quintessence

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The most pure essence of a substance, the

most perfect or typical example of a class

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Quintile

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A aspect of 72 degrees a fifth of circle, five

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Quirk

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A peculiarity of action or behavior, weird

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Raft

A

A flat buoyant used for platform made of

rubber

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Rally

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To bring into order again, to come together to

make an effort

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Ramble

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To walk without a route

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Ramification

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A related or derived subject, a branch

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Rampart

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A broad elevation or a mound of earth raised

as fortification around a place

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Randy

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Rude or aggressive

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Rank

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A position in a class or place or a competition

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Rapt

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Completely fascinated by what one is seeing

or hearing

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Ratchet

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A toothed bar with which a pawl engages

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Reactionary

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Opposing political or social liberalization

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Ream

A

A standard quantity of paper (500) sheets of

paper, a large quantity