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Princeton Book Beyond the Key Terms Group 2 Flashcards

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abjure (verb)

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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adumbrate (verb)

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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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anathema (noun)

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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anodyne (adj.)/(noun)

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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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apogee (noun)

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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apotheosis (noun)

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deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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asperity (noun)

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severity, rigor, toughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability

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asseverate (verb)

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to avert, allege, or assert

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assiduous (adj.)

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diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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augury (noun)

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omen, potent

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bellicose (adj.)

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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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calumniate (verb)

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to slander, to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, asperison

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captious (adj.)

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disposed to point our trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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cavil (verb)

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to find adult without good reason

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celerity (noun)

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speed, alacrity; think accelerate

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chimera (noun)

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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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contumacious (adj.)

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insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult; scorn, aspersion

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debacle (noun)

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root, fiasco, complete failure

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denouement (noun)

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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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descry (verb)

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to catch sight of

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desuetude (noun)

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disuse

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desultory (adj.)

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random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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diaphanous (adj.)

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transparent, gauzy

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diffident (adj.)

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self confidence

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dirge (noun)

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a song of grief or lamentation

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encomium (noun)

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glowing and enthusiastic; praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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eschew (verb)

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to shun or avoid

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excoriate (verb)

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate (verb)

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to denounce, to feel loathing or, to curse, to declare to be evil

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exegesis (noun)

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critical examination, explication

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expiate (noun)

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to atone or make amends for

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fatuous (adj.)

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silly, inanely, foolish

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fractious (adj.)

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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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gainsay (verb)

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to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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heterodox (adj.)

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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imbroglio (adj.)

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difficult or embracing situation

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indefatigable (adj.)

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not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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ineluctable (adj.)

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certain, inevitable

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inimitable (adj.)

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one of a kind, peerless

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insouciant (adj.)

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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inveterate (adj.)

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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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jejune (adj.)

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vapid, wanton, greasy, slippery

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mendicant (noun)

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a beggar, sypplicant

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meretricious (adj.)

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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minatory (adj.)

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menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)

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nadir (noun)

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low point, perigee

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nonplussed (adj.)

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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous (adj.)

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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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ossified (adj.)

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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally turned into bone

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palliate (verb)

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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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panegyric (noun)

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formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

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parsimonious (adj.)

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cheap, miserly

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peroration (noun)

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the concluding part of a speech; flowery; rhetorical speech

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plangent 9adj.)

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix (adj.)

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long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity

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propitiate (verb)

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to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable

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puerile (adj.)

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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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puissance (noun)

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power, strength, puissant means powerful, strong

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remonstrate (noun)

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to protest, to object

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sagacious (adj.)

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having sound judgement; perceptive, wise; like a sage

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salacious (adj.)

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salutary (adj.)

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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sanguine (adj.)

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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saturnine (adj.)

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gloomy, dark or sullen, morose

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sententious (adj.)

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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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stygian (adj.)

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gloomy, dark

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sycophant (noun)

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toady, servile, self-seeking, flatter; parasite

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tendentious (adj.)

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biased showing marked tendencies

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timorous (adj.)

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timid, fearful, diffident

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tyro (non)

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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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vitiate (noun)

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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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voluble (adj.)

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken langage

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