Random #1 Packet Flashcards

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1
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Motion picture; movie; film

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Cinema

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Look down on with contempt or disgust; loathe; regard as inferior

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Despise

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Overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberant

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Ebullient

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Enlarge a fact or statement beyond what is true; overstate

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Exaggerate

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Arouse by words; advise strongly; urge

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Exhort

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Specialized skill or technical knowledge; know how; expertness

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Expertise

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Excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please; fussy; particular

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Finicky

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Make sore; irritate mentally; annoy; vex

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Gall

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Lacking significance or sense; pointless; silly; insipid

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Inane

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10
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Compensate for loss, damage or injury; reimburse; repay

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Indemnify

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11
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West; countries of America and Europe

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Occident

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Read; look at fairly attentively; study

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Peruse

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13
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Rough struggle with scrambling and confusion; fight

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Scuffle

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Thrust aside with disdain or contempt; reject;

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Spurn

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Fixed or regular pay for services; wage; salary

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Stipend

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Close watch over a person, group or area; supervision

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Surveillance

17
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Moderately warm; lukewarm

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Tepid

18
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Risk (something) on the outcome of a contest or uncertain event; gamble; bet

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Wager

19
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Decrease in power or size; dwindle; decline; sink

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Wane

20
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Bewilder; perplex; fill with confusion; puzzle; frustrated

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Baffle