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Part 6 Flashcards

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Cacophony

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harsh, loved, unpleasant sound

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Badinage

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Humorous or witty conversation, half teasing, playful not serious

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Banter

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Playful and pleasing exchange of teasing remark

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Persiflage

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Banter which is a little but indicative of contempt

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Cliche

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A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought

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Bromide

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A trite(overused) statement that intended to placate(calm)

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Platitude

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a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content

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Bovine

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relating to or affecting cattle

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Leonine

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resembling in lion’s appearance

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Canine

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resembling in dog

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Feline

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resembling in cat

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Equine

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resembling in horse

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Carnage

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great destruction of life

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Reincarnation

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Re-birth or reappearance

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Incarnate

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Embodied in human form

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Voracious

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Engaging in an activity with great eagerness and enthusiasm

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Omnipresent

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Present in all places at once

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Clandestine

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Kept or done in secret

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Surreptitious

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kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of

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Enervate

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To reduce the mental or moral strength

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Castigate

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To criticize someone severely

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Self abnegation

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The denial of one’s own needs in favor of the needs of other

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Recapitulate

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Summarize and state again the main points

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Decapitate

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To chop off someone’s head

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Capitulate

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To surrender

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Vegetate

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To live or spend a period of time in a dull monotonous unchallenging

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Monotonous

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Doing same thing again and again when it gets bored

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Simulate

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to give/assume/the appearance or character or effect of imitate

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Levity

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lack of seriousness, especially when seriousness is required

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Alleviate

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make it less severe

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Commiserate

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To feel or express sympathy

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Vacillate

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To waver/ hesitate in mind, will, feeling

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Obsequious

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

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Obsequies

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The burial ceremonies

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Querulous

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Complaining in rather whining manner

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Obstreperous

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Noisy and difficult to control

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Supercilious

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Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others

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Chivalrous

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Respectful especially toward women

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Cavalcade

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A procession of person on horse back

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Cavalier

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As a noun cavalier was a mounted soldier as an adj; it is describes actions and attitude that are naughty, unmindful of other’s feelings

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Cavalry

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The mounted or ‘horsed’ part of an army

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Bibulous

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Excessively found of drinking alcohol/ highly absorbent

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Imbibe

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Assimilate/ absorb in the mind

45
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Bib

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Upper part of an apron/ napkin around child’s neck

46
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Cadaverous

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Very pale, thin or bony

47
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Codaver

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dead body

48
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Decandant

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Deteriorating becoming corruptor

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Dolorous

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Expressing misery or grief

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Dolor

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A poetic synonym of grief

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Doleful

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Full of grief

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Condole

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Express sympathy

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Elegiac

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Grief/sorrow

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Serendipity

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Something happen by luck

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Inept

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Foolish

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Profligate

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The one who waste money

57
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Natty

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The one who always find a false

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Verisimilar

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Believing

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Inchoate

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Beginning stage

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Fervent

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Passionate

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Nascent

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In the first stage of growing

62
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Incipient

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In the start of development

Norman Lewis 1-47 (6 decks)

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