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Summit Week 5 Flashcards

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Arrogate (v)

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To claim or take without right

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Belabor (adj)

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To work on excessively; to thrash soundly

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Carping (adj/n)

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Tending to find fault, especially in petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way
Petty, nagging criticism

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Congeal (v)

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To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

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Emulate (v)

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To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

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Encomium (n)

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A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

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Eschew (v)

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To avoid, shun, keep away from

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Insatiable (adj)

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So great or demanding as not to be satisfied

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Intransigent (adj)

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Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

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Invidious (adj)

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Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

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Largesse (n)

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Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

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Reconnaisance (n)

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A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

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Substantiate (v)

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To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

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Temporize (v)

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To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

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Tenable (adj)

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Capable of being held or defended

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Animadversion (n)

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A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

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Avid (adj)

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Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

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Brackish (adj)

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Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

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Devious (adj)

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Straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in s shifty or underhanded way

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Gambit (n)

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In chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

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Histrionic (adj)

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Pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

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Incendiary (adj/n)

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Deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion
One who deliberately sets fire, arsonist; one who cause strife

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Maelstrom (n)

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A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction

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Myopic (adj)

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Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

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Overt (adj)

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Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized

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Pejorative (adj)

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Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling

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Propriety (n)

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The state of being proper, appropriateness

(Pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable

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Sacrilege (n)

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Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

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Summarily (adv)

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Without delay or formality; briefly, defilement

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Suppliant (adj/n)

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Asking humbly and earnestly

One who makes a request humbly and earnestly, petitioner, suitor

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Talisman (n)

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An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish

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Acquisitive (adj)

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Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

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Cavort (v)

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To romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry

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Credence (n)

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Belief, mental acceptance

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Decry (v)

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To condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate

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Dissemble (v)

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To disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false inpression

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Distraught (adj)

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Very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict

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Evince (v)

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To display clearly, to make evidence, to provoke

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Exhume (v)

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To remove from a grave, to bring to light

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Feckless (adj)

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Lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable

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Murky (adj)

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Dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision

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Nefarious (adj)

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Wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards

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Piquant (adj)

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Stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative

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Propinquity (n)

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Nearness in place or time; kinship

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Unwonted (adj)

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Not usual or expected, not in character

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Utopian (adj)

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Founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical

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Verbiage (n)

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A language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense of content, wordiness, a manner of expression

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