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Round 4 - Vocab.com top 1000 Flashcards

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devolve

A

grow worse; to transfer or delegate (a duty, responsibility, etc.) to or upon another; pass on (usually w/ a bad connotation)

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recriminate/recrimination

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to countercharge and accuser; accuse in return

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alacrity

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cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness; eagerness; liveliness; briskness; keenness, zeal

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waive

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do without or cease to hold or adhere to; refrain from doing or insisting upon; forgo; relinquish intentionally

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unwonted

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out of the ordinary; not customary or usual; rare as in “unwonted kindness”

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seethe

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to be in a state of agitation or excitement

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scrutinize

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to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail

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diffident

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lacking in self-confidence, worth, or fitness; restrained or reserved in manner/conduct

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execrate

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curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment; to detest utterly; abhor; abominate; to curse; imprecate evil upon; damn; denounce

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anathema

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a person or thing detested or loathed:
“That subject is anathema to him.”

a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction.

a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication.

any imprecation of divine punishment.

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imprecation OR malediction

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curse; malediction; the act of cursing

imprecate: to invoke curses upon a person

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implacable

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not to be appeased/mollified/pacified; inexorable

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inexorable

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unyielding/unalterable; unable to be moved/persuaded by pleads or entreaties

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entreaty

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supplication; earnest request or petition

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pique

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a sudden outburst of anger; to arouse emotion or excite; to affect with sharp irritation or resentment; to wound someone’s pride/vanity

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mite

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a slight but appreciable amount; a contribution that is small but all a person can afford

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uncouth

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lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly; strange or ungraceful

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petulant

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easily irritated or annoyed; moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance

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expiate

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make amends or reparation for

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cavalier

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given to haughty disregard of others; offhand or supercilious; disdainful

one having the spirit or bearing of a knight; a courtly gentleman; gallant; a man escorting a woman or acting as her partner in dancing

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supercilious

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haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression

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repartee

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a quick, witty reply; skill in making such replies; conversations full of banter

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bluster

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act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner; to roar and be tumultuous, as wind; to be loud, noisy, or swaggering; utter loud, empty menaces or protests; to force or accomplish by blustering; noisy empty threats or protests; inflated talk

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debase

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adulterate; corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; to lower in rank, dignity, or significance; to reduce in character or value

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retainer

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a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)

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subjugate

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make subservient; force to submit or subdue

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extol

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praise, glorify, or honor

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fraught

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laden/attended/filled with

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august

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profoundly honored; inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic; venerable; eminent

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fissure

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a long narrow depression in a surface; a natural division or groove in an organ, as in the brain; to cleave or split

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knoll

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small natural hill or eminence

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inculcate

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teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; teach persistently or earnestly

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nettle

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cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

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blanch

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turn pale, as if in fear or sickness

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inscrutable

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of an obscure nature; physically impenetrable

incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.

not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable

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thrall

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the state of being under the control of another person; a person in bondage; slave; morally or mentally enslaved by some power/influence

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exigency

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a pressing or urgent situation; the need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition

a case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy; emergency

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disconsolate

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sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

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impetus

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a force that moves something along

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auspices

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kindly endorsement and guidance; patronage; support; sponsorship; a favorable sign or propitious circumstance; prognostication or divination

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propitious

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presenting favorable conditions; favorable; auspicious

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prognostication

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premonition or prediction or forecast

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sonorous

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full and loud and deep; giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place i.e. a cave; resonant; rich and full in sound as in language; high-flown speech; grandiloquent

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grandiloquent

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speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic

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dint

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interchangeable with means' in the expression by means of’; force or power; to impress or drive in with force; make a dent

ex. By dint of hard work she became head of the company.

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zenith

antonym: nadir

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a highest point or state; the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected

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voluble/loquacious

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marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent; glib; talkative

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glib

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readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so; easy or unrestrained in manner or actions

having only superficial plausibility

49
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yeoman

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servant; attendant; subordinate; in former times was free and cultivated his own land; one of a class of lesser freeholders, below the gentry, who cultivated their own land, early admitted in England to political rights

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levity

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a manner lacking seriousness; lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness

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