PW CATER 1-7 Flashcards
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Ridiculously old fashioned.
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Antediluvian
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Approval or praise.
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Approbation
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- Each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.
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Caste
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- A person or nation engaged in fighting during a war.
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Combatants
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1.the branch of law concerned with the preparation of documents for the transferring of property.
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Conveyancing
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- The customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular profession or group.
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Etiquette
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- Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.
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Formidable
8
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2 weeks
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Fortnight
9
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- A small settlement, generally one smaller than a village.
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Hamlet
10
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- incapable of making mistakes or being wrong.
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Infallible
11
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Lummox- A clumsy, stupid person.
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Lummox
12
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Magnanimity- 1. The fact or condition of being magnanimous; generosity.
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Magnanimity
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- Ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish.
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Opulent
14
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. The quality of being religious or reverent.
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Piety
15
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- An earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.
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Precedent
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A member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church
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Protestants
17
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An act of retaliation
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Reprisals
18
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Ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly.
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Supplicating
19
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Full of difficulty or tribulation.
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Torrid-
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- A person who is staying or working in a place for only a short time.
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Transients
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- Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.
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Hegemony
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- The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
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Vernacular
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- The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, par ticularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
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Satire
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- Increasing in size or importance.
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Ascending
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1. harshness of tone or manner.
Asperity
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Math doing
Cipher
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1. A soldier armed with grenades or a grenade launcher.
Grenadier
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1. Impossible to placate or appease.
Implacability
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1. A person's natural tendency or urge to act or feel in a particular way; a disposition or propensity.
Inclination
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1. Inconvenience (someone).
Incommode
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1.Not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something.
Incongruous
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- 1. Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
Indolent
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The crux or central point of a matter.
Nub
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1. (of a person's face) pale, typically because of poor health.
Pallid
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1. A person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities.
Prodigies
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1. Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree
Prodigious
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1. Having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something.
Rabid
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1. make or become hard or solid.
Solidified
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1. Drink alcohol, especially habitually.
Tippling
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(Especially in a woman) the quality of being attractively lively and animated.
Vivacity
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1. habitual; usual.
Wonted
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2. A long or rambling story, especially one that is implausible.
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