Set 8 Flashcards

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Frayed

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Worn out due to excessive friction

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Level headed

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Calm and sensible

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Straggle

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Move slowly to be behind the people in front

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3
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Roister

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Revel in a noisy way

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4
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Boutonnière

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A spray of flowers worn in a button hole

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5
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Bilious

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  1. Associated with nausea or vomiting

2. Bad tempered

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6
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Transpired

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  1. Occur; happen

2. to reveal a secret

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7
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Restiveness

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Unable to remain still due to tedium or dissatisfaction

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Hitch

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Move something into a different position with a jerk

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9
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Savvy

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Shrewdness and practical knowledge

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10
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Pyloric stenosis

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A medical condition which an infant vomits violently

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Machausen’s Syndrome

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A medical condition which the patient believes himself to be ill but in reality he is healthy

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12
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Elephantiasis

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A medical condition which the patient’s legs resemble an elephant’s due to parasitic infection

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13
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Myelogenous Leukemia

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Leukocyte cancer

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14
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Continence

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The exercise of self restraint from sexual matters

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15
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Chortling

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Laugh in a noisy, gleeful(triumphant ) way

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Savor

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Taste, flavor or smell (esp. a pleasant one)

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Heft

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Lift or carry something heavy

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Avid

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Show keen interest or enthusiasm

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Swoon

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  1. Faint from extreme emotion
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20
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Beckon

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To gesture

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Testy

22
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Cabal

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A secret political clique(A small group of people with common interest or ther features in common, who spend time together and do not allow others to join them) or faction ( a small, organized dissenting group within a larger one)

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Lingerie

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Undergarment or nightwear

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Gauge
1. Measure or estimate | 2. Assess or judge
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Prance
(Of a horse) move with high springy steps
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Haunches
Buttock and thigh together
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Evicted
Expel (from support of law)
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Josh
Tease someone in a playful way
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Scant
Barely sufficient or adequate
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Inscrutable
Impossible to understand or interpret
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Dapple
Mark with spots or rounded patches
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Tete a tete
Private conversation between two people; privately
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Flimsy
Fragile
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Incorporated
1. Absorb; to take in
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Mooning
Behave or move in an aimless, listless way
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Compatriots
Fellow citizens
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Jostling
Push, elbow or bump against in a crowd
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Falsettos
A method of singing in high pitch for male singers
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Sabbatical year
A paid leave for university professors
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Self perpetuating bureaucracy
Making itself continue...excessively complicated administrative procedure
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Spadework
Hard or routine preparatory work
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Prenaturally
Beyond normal or natural
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Jaunty
Cheerful or self confident manner
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Stowed
Store or pack
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Tote
Carry or wield (something heavy)
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Glum
Sad, morose
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Seance
A meeting of people to contact the dead
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Nil
Zero; non existent
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Chastened
(Of reprove or misfortune) have a restraining or moderating effect on