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Pre-Final 1100 words Flashcards

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to Solicit

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To beg, seek earnestly

ex: to solicit contributions(вклады, взносы)

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Adverse

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Unfavorable, harmful, preventing success, development.

ex: Adverse weather conditions.

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Amicable

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Friendly, peaceful

ex: There will be an amicable settlement for the dispute.

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Malady

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Disease

ex: an incurable malady

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Inclement

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Unfavorable, stormy, harsh

ex: Inclement weather

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To peruse

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To read carefully

ex: He sat at his desk, trying to peruse a company report.

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Premonition

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Forewarning, a strong feeling that something is going to happen, esp sth unpleasant

ex: A premonition of calamity

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To desist

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To cease

ex: A premonition of calamity that besieged him wouldn’t desist.

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To recoil

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To draw back

ex: He recoiled when the phone rang.

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Pertinent

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Appropriate, to the point

ex: The astute lawyer was able to elicit the pertinent information from the key witness.

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A mastiff

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A large dog

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To obsess

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To preoccupy, to haunt

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Doleful

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Sad, Melancholy

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Wan

[won]

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Sickly pale

ex: She was looking wan.

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Histrionics

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Display of emotions

ex: The doctor explained the situation calmly, avoiding histrionics.

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Elusive

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Hard to grasp

ex: The elusive dog had frustrated all attempts to find him so far.

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Symptomatic

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Having to do with signs or symptoms, indicative

ex: …symptomatic of rabies.

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To interject

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To interrupt, to insert

ex: The policeman interjected that there hadn’t been a case of a mad dog in the county in over twenty years.

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Inert

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ინერტული, without power to move

ex: She lay inert in her bed.

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Salient

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Prominent, outstanding, most noticeable

ex: Once the salient characteristics appear, then death will be imminent.

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Imminent

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Likely to happen, threatening

ex: You’re in imminent danger.

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Squeamish

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Easily shocked, over sensitive, easily made to feel sick/disgusted/faint

ex: He was squeamish at the sight of blood.

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Engrossed

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Absorbed

ex: They seemed to be engrossed in conversation.

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To inundate

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To flood, to swamp

ex: The station was inundated with phone calls.

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Fruitless

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Useless

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Poignant

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Moving, painful to the feelings

ex: A poignant reminder of the passing time.

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Garbled

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Confused, mixed up

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Sanguine

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Optimistic

ex: There was little tangible evidence, but the police remained sanguine.

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Phlegmatic

[fleg mat’ ik]

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Calm, hard to rouse to action, sluggish(slow-moving)

ex: The normally phlegmatic Jerry Hart was deeply upset.

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To corroborate

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To confirm, support

ex: Even if the rabies could not be corroborated Jerry was determined to see that his son received the vaccine.

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Zealous

[zel’ es]

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Enthusiastic

ex: The comprehensive search party was zealously fanning out in circles around the supermarket.

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To coerce

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To force

e: They were coerced into silence.

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To elapse

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To slip by

ex: Forty hours had elapsed before the police work and the publicity paid off.

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Meticulous

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Careful

ex: The police was meticulously checking registrations of every car.

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Domicile (noun)

[dom’ e sil]

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Home

ex: A man’s domicile is his castle.

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Lax (adj)

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Careless, negligent

ex: The lax control of the borders enabled the enemies to raid the country.

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Sporadic

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Occasional

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Rash

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Too hasty, reckless

ex: It would extremely rush to make such assumption.

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To obviate

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To do away with, eliminate

ex: The necessity for preparing sandwiches was obviated when the picnic was postponed.

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Lurid

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Sensational

ex: The newspaper switched from mundane coverage to lurid reporting.

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Quip

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To joke

ex: “His bark was worse than his bite,” quipped Jerry.

Uni Eng Part 2 (7 decks)

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