Set 1-4 Flashcards

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Apposite

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Suitable; well-adapted
S: relevant
A: inappropriate

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Aggregation

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Group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc.
S: combined
A: individual

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Circumspect

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Watchful and discreet
S: attentive
A: careless

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Colloquy

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A conversational exchange
S: dialogue
A: silence

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Consign

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To hand over or deliver formally
S: entrest
A: keep

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Dictum

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An authoritative pronouncement
S: motto
A: nonsense

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Ductility

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Able to undergo change or form without breaking
S: mailability
A: un shapable

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Interdict

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Any prohibitory act or an authoritative mission
S: forbid
A: permit

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Introspection

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Observation or examination of ones own mental and emotional state
S: self analysis
A: oblivious

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Locus

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A place
S: location
A: no where

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Malediction

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A curse
S: imprecation
A: blessing

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Malevolent

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Harmful, wishing evil or harm to someone
S: wicked
A: friendly

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Mortician

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Undertaker

S: embalmer

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Prescribe

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To lay down in writing or otherwise as a rule or a course of action
S: to advise
A: disallow

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Proscribe

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To denounce or condemn as dangerous
S: ban
A: admit

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Allocate

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To set apart for a purpose
S: a lot
A: keep

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Benediction

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The utterance or bestowing of a blessing
S: prayer
A: malediction

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Comport

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Conduct oneself, behave
S: behave
A: misbehave

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Diffident

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Modest or shy because of a lack of self confidence
S: bashful
A: bold

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Indict

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Formally accuse of or charge with a serious crime
S: charge with
A: absolve

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Inter

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Place in a grave or tomb
S: entomb
A: exhume

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Novitiate

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The state or period of being a beginner
S: learner
A: experienced

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Perfidious

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Deliberately faithless or treacherous
S: discreetful
A: faithful

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Purport

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To present as an original
S: to claim
A: actual

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Soliloquy

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The act of talking while or as if alone
S: aside
A: dialogue

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Specter

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A ghost

S: apparition

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Temporize

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To be indecisive to gain time
S: procrastinate
A: expedite

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Transliteration

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The change into corresponding characters of another language
S: adaptation

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Superannuated

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Retired because of new technology
S:
A: modern

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Porter

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A person who is hired to carry luggage

S: bellhop

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Allocution

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A formal speech, especially one of an incontrovertible nature
S: address
A: listening

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Confraternity

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A brotherhood devoted for purpose

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Convocation

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A group of people gathered in answer to a summons

S: gathering

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Egregious

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Extraordinary in some bad way
S: extreme
A: little

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Evansescent

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Vanishing, fading away
S: brief
A: long

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Extemporaneous

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Done, spoken
S: automatic
A: planned

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Fastidious

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Hard to place
S: critical
A: indifferent

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Fiduciary

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A person to whom property is entrusted for the benefit of another
S: guardian

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Interlocutor

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A person who takes part in a conversation

S: dialogist

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Interurban

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Located in between cities
S: civil
A: rural

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Irrevocable

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Not to be revoked or recalled
S: certain
A: alterable

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Maladroit

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Unskillful
S: clumsy
A: able

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Manumit

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To release from slavery
S: free
A: detain

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Repository

A

A place where there are deposited

S: archive

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Urbanity

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Courtesy or politeness
S: elegance
A: rude

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Avocation

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Something a person does in addition to s principal occupation
S: hobby
A: work

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Adumbrate

A

To produce a faint image or resemblance of

S: darken

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Centuple

A

Hundred times as great

S: a hundred fold

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Conflagration

A

A destructive fire usually an extensive one

S: blaze

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Dinister

A

To dig up
S: excoriate
A: Bury

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Garrulous

A

Excessively talkative in a rambling manner
S: apoculative
A: quiet

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Juxtaposition

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Comparing by putting the items side by side

S: adjacent

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Matron

A

A woman in charge of marry-able/ domestic relations
S: biddy
A: patron

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Missive

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A written message

S: letter

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Obsequious

A

Obedient
S: well-behaved
A: arrogant

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Perennial

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Lasting for an indefinitely long time

S: enduring

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Predicate

A

To proclaim, declare
S: declare
A: denounce

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Providence

A

The foreseeing care and guidance of God

S: fate

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Recapitulate

A

To review by a brief summary
S: outline
A: foreshadow

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Terrier

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Of or relating to the Earth

S: earthly