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Sentient to Z Flashcards

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Sentient

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Aware; conscious; able to perceive

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Servile

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Submissive; obedient

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Sextant

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Navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude

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Shard

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A piece of broken glass or pottery

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Sidereal

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Relating to the stars

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Simian

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Apelike; relating to apes

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Simile

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Comparison of one thing with another using like or as

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Sinecure

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Well-paying job or office that requires little or no work

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Singular

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Unique; extraordinary; odd

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Sinuous

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Winding; intricate; complex

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Skeptic

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One who doubts

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Sobriety

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Seriousness

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Sodden

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Thoroughly soaked; saturated

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Solicitous

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Concerned; attentive; eager

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Soliloquy

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Literary or dramatic speech by one character, not addressed to others

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Solvent

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Able to meet financial obligation

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Somatic

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Relating to or affecting the body; corporeal

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Soporific

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Sleep producing

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Sordid

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Filthy; contemptible and corrupt

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Specious

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Seeming to be logical and sound, but not really so

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Spectrum

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Band of colors produced when sunlight passes through a prism; a broad range of related ideas or objects

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Spendthrift

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N. person who spends money recklessly, adj. wasteful and extravagant

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Sporadic

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Irregular

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Squalor

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Filthy, wretched condition

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Staccato

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Marked by abrupt, clear-cut sounds

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Stanch

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To stop or check the flow of

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Stentorian

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Extremely loud

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Stigma

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Mark of disgrace or inferiority

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Stint

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V. to be sparing, n. a period of time spent doing something

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Stipulate

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To specify as an essential condition

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Stolid

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Having or showing little emotion

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Stratified

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Arranged in layers

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Striated

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Marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels

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Stricture

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Something that restrains; negative criticism

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Strident

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Loud; harsh; unpleasantly noisy

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Strut

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To swagger; display to impress others

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Stultify

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To impair or reduce to uselessness

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Stupefy

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To dull the senses of; stun; astonish

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Stygian

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Dark and gloomy; hellish

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Subpoena

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Notice ordering someone to appear in court

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Subside

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To settle down; grow quiet

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Substantiate

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To support with proof or evidence

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Substantive

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Essential; pertaining to the substance

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Subsume

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To include; incorporate

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Subversive

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Intended to undermine or overthrow, especially an established government

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Succor

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Relief; help in time of distress or want

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Sundry

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Various

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Supersede

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To replace, especially to displace as inferior or antiquated

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Supine

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Lying on the back; marked by lethargy

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Supplant

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To replace; substitute

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Suppliant

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Beseeching

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Supplicant

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One who asks humbly and earnestly

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Supposition

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The act of assuming to be true or real

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Syllogism

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A form of deductive reasoning that has a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion

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Sylvan

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Related to the woods or forest

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Tacit

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Silently understood; implied

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Talisman

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Charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune

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Tangential

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Peripheral; digressing

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Tautology

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Unnecessary repetition

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Taxonomy

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Science of classification; in biology, the process of classifying organsims in categories

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Tenet

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Belief; doctrine

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Tenuous

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Weak; insubstantial

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Terrestrial

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Earthly; commonplace

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Theocracy

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Government by priests representing a god

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Thespian

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An actor or actress

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Timbre

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The characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone color

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Tirade

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Long, violent speech; verbal assault

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Toady

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Flatterer; hanger-on; yes-man

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Tome

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Book, usually large and academic

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Torpor

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Lethargy; dormancy; sluggishness

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Torque

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A turning or twisting force; the moment of a force; the measure of a force’s tendency to produce twisting or turning and rotation around an axis

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Tortuous

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Having many twists and turns; highly complex

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Tout

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To promote or praise energetically

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Tractable

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Obedient; yielding

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Transgression

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Act of trespassing or violating a law or rule

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Transient

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Temporary; short-lived; fleeting

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Translucent

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Partially transparent

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Travail

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N. work, especially arduous work; tribulation; anguish, v. to work strenuously

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Travesty

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Parody; exaggerated imitation; caricature

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Treatise

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Article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly

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Tremulous

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Trembling; quivering; frugal; timid

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Trepidation

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Fear and anxiety

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Truculence

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Aggressiveness; ferocity

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Tryst

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Agreement between lovers to meet; rendezvous

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Tumid

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Swollen; distended

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Turbid

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Muddy; opaque; in a state of great confusion

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Turgid

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Swollen; bloated; pompous

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Tutelary

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Serving as a guardian or protector

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Uncanny

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Mysterious; strange

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Undulating

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Moving in waves

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Unfeigned

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Not false; not made up; genuine

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Untenable

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Indefensible

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Untoward

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Not favorable; troublesome; adverse; unruly

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Usury

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Practice of lending money at exorbitant rates

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Vacillate

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To waver; oscillate

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Vacuous

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Empty; void; lacking intelligence; purposeless

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Valedictory

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Pertaining to a farewell

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Vapid

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Tasteless; dull

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Variegated

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Varied; marked with different colors

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Vaunt

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To boast; brag

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Venal

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Bribable; mercenary; corruptible

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Vendetta

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Prolonged feud marked by bitter hostility

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Venerate

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V. to adore; honor; respect, adj. respected because of age, character, or position

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Veracious

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Truthful; accurate

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Verbose

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Vertigo

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Vexation

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Irritation; annoyance; confusion; puzzlement

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Viable

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Practicable; capable of developing

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Vindictive

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Spiteful; vengeful; unforgiving

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Virtuoso

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Someone with masterly skills; expert musician

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Visage

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Countenance; appearance; aspect

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Viscous

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Thick, syrupy, and sticky

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Vitiate

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To impair the quality of; corrupt morally; make inoperative

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Vituperative

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Using or containing harsh, abusive censure

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Vivisection

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Dissection; surgery; or painful experiments performed on a living animal for the purpose of scientific research

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Vogue

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Prevailing fashion or practice

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Volatile

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Tending to vary frequently; fickle

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Vortex

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Whirlpool; whirlwind; center of turbulence

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Warranted

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Adj. justified, v. to attest to the accuracy or quality; justify; grant authorization

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Wary

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Careful; cautious

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Welter

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To wallow or roll; toss about; be in turmoil

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Whimsical

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Fanciful; unpredictable

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Whimsy

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Playful or fanciful idea

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Wistful

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Vaguely longing; sadly thoughtful

126
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Zealot

A

One who is fanatically devoted to a cause

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Zealotry

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Fanaticism

GRE words 817 (10 decks)

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