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Round 11 - Vocab.com top 1000 Flashcards

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nostrums

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ineffective drugs; patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable; placebo without effects

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immure

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lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

When you immure someone or something, you put it behind a wall, as in a jail or some other kind of confining space.

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astringent

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acid based; corrosive; sour or bitter in taste; toxic or bitter personality

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unfaltering

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unwavering; marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

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tutelage

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attention and management implying responsibility for safety

If you babysit and tutor younger children after school, the kids are under your tutelage. You are responsible for their care and education.

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elysian

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being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; blissful state

paradise; heavenly scene

blissful; delightful

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fulminate

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criticize severely; explode

Watch a bomb fulminate or explode and hope you’re under safe cover. Have your parents fulminate or blow up at you for coming home past curfew and hope you’re not grounded for too long.

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fractious

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easily irritated or annoyed

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manumit

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set free; liberate; free from slavery or servitude

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triumvirate

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group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority

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sybarite

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a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses

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magisterial

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offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

A person who is magisterial can be distinguished and grand, or possibly just conceited and bossy.

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roseate

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rosy; of something having a dusty purplish pink color

ie a roseate glow

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obloquy

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a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone’s words or actions

If you are on the receiving end of obloquy, then society has turned against you and you are in a state of disgrace. Poor Hester Prynne who was forced to wear a red “A” on her chest for “adultery” knows all about obloquy.

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striate

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mark with striae or striations (grooves or stripes)

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arrogate

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to take over; seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one’s right or possession

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rarefied

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of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style

so stylish, smart, or moral that they seem elevated above the ordinary, like the rarefied conversation of brilliant scholars.

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chary

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characterized by great caution and wariness

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credo

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system of beliefs or principles

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superannuated

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too old to be useful; obsolete

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impolitic

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politically unwise; putting your foot in your mouth

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aspersion

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a disparaging remark

when you cast aspersions on someone, you are questioning their abilities or doubting them

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abysmal

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resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable

real bad

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poignancy

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a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

something that is deeply touching, especially something that brings forth strong emotions like sympathy, sadness, or sorrow. The poignancy of the movie may bring you to tears

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stilted

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artificially formal

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effete (e-FEET)

adj.

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marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; a disapproving term meaning decadent and self-indulgent, even useless.

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provender

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food for domestic livestock

food that might not be fancy but it keeps you from going hungry, like the long-time provender of college students: rice, pasta, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and the occasional discount pizza.

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endemic

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prevalent; of or relating to a disease: constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality

If you want to underscore just how commonly found and present something is within a particular place, try the word endemic. Tight pants are endemic in my lunch room!

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jocund (jock-UND)

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cheery and merry; full of or showing high-spirited merriment

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rakish

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marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness

Ladies, the rakish fellow you met last night with the suave dance moves, smoothly rehearsed lines, and your number listed as “Goddess #14” in his phone is fine for a flirt, but probably isn’t meet-the-parents material.

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peroration

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long, lofty speech; a flowery and highly rhetorical oration

speech’s conclusion

If you attend a political convention, be prepared to hear a peroration — a long, lofty speech. If the speech really drags on, you might find yourself hoping for its peroration, as peroration can also refer to a speech’s conclusion.

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nonentity

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a person of no influence or importance

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abstemious

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marked by temperance in indulgence; restrained

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viscid

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having the sticky properties of an adhesive; sticky or thick and slow-moving

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doggerel

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a comic verse of irregular measure; irregularly rhyming, really bad poetry, usually comic in tone and fit only for dogs.

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sleight/adroit

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adroitness in using the hands

ie “sleight of hand”

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wizened

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lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

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whorl

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a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

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fracas (FRAY-cus)

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noisy quarrel

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iconoclast

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someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions; challenges and attacks traditions

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saturnine

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bitter or scornful; gloomy, mean, scowling

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discursive

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(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; ramble from topic to topic in a hard to follow manner

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moribund

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not growing or changing; without force or vitality; almost dead

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modicum

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a small or moderate or token amount

45
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adventitious

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things that “just kind of happen”; associated by chance and not an integral part

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recondite

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abstruse or esoteric

hard for the average mind to understand; difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

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zephyr

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gentle breeze; a slight wind (usually refreshing)

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countermand

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cancel officially; to revoke or reverse a command

49
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captious

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hypercritical; tending to find and call attention to faults

50
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cognate

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words that look and mean the same in different languages; having the same ancestral language

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