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Test Words 12 Flashcards

1
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Ancilliary

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Providing necessary support to primary activities.

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Nebulous

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Hazy

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Exegesis

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Critical explanation or interpretation of a text

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Disparaging

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Derogatory

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Insouciance

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Indifference, Casual lack of concern.

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Irenic

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Aimed at peace

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Bequeathed

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Leave to another person by will

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Annals

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A record of events year by year

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Putative

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Generally considered

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Grandiose

A

Impressive, pretensiously so

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Antedated

A

Come before in date

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Sclerotic

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Unresponsive; unability to adapt

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Ossified

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Unresponsive; Become rigid or fixed

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Dearth

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Lack

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Lieu

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In the place of

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Stateliness

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A formal impressive quality

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Bravura

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Great Technical Skill shown in performance or activity

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Virility

A

Manliness

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Beget

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Cause; bring about

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Palpation

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Method of feeling with the fingers

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Incontrovertible

A

Not able to be denied or disputed

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Peruse

A

Read something carefully in a thorough way.

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Taxonomy

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The science of classifying, naming orgnisms

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Efficacious

A

Effective

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Predicated

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Based on something

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Beholden

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Owing thanks to someone

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Chastened

A

Having a restraining or moderating effect on, punish(archaic)

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Approbatory

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Praise

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Deign

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Do something one considers is beneath one’s dignity

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Elusive

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Difficult to find, catch or achieve

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Indiscernible

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Difficult to see or clearly distinguish

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Artful

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Clever or skillful in a cunning way

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Brisk

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Active, Energetic, Quicken something

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Jaunt

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Quick and short journey

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Nevertheless

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In spite of, notwithstanding, all the same

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36
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Spurious

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False and Fake

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Limpidity

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Clear and easy to understand

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Allusions

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An indirect or passing reference

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Commemoration

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Recall and show respect for someone

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Evanescent

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Quickly fading or dissapearing

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Intrigues

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Secret plannings

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Enfeebled

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Made feeble or weak

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Unheralded

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Not previously annouced or expected

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Tentative

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Not certain or fixed

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Elicit

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Evoke or draw out from some as reaction.

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Canonical

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According to ordered by canon law, authoritative

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Conjugal

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The relationship of a married couple

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Expansive

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Open around others and willing to talk

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Transgression

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Disjointed

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Lacking a coherant sequence or connection

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Dubious

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Hesitating or doubt

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Muddled

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Not arranged in order, untidy

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Coherent

54
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Apprehension

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Understanding or grasp; anxiety or fear or something bad will happen.

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Affectation

A

pretentious behavior, studied display of real or pretend feeling

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Flaccid

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Soft and limp, not firm, flabby

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Discordant

A

Disagreeing or incongruous

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Gush

A

speak or write with exxagerated enthusiasm

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Relish

A

Great enjoyment

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Feign

A

Pretend to be affected by

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Hauteur

A

Proud Haughtiness of manner

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Asperity

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Hashness of tone or manner

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Ethereal

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extremely light and delicate to make it seem not of this world.

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Prophetic

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Accurately Predicting what will happen in the future

65
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Synoptic

A

forming general summary or synopsis

66
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Annex

A

Add as an extra subordinate part

67
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Proselytize

A

convert or attempt to convert ones belief, opinion or religion

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Axiomatic

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Self evident and unquestionable

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Endemic

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Regularly occuring in a community or area

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Doggedly

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In a manner that shows tenacity and grim persistence

71
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Nascent

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Just coming into existence

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Elegy

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Serious reflection to lament for the dead

73
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Vitiate

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spoil or impair the quality of

74
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Pat

A

a light touch (on subject or physically)

75
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Bereft

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Lacking, Deprived of or lacking

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Succor

A

Assistance in time of hardship

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Heady

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Potent, Intoxicating

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Buck

A

Oppose, resist

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Ordinances

A

An authoritative order

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Hubbub

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Flurry

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A number of things happening at the same time (whirl (physical meanin))

82
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Emendations

A

Revision or correction of text

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Rapproachement

A

Establish harmonious relations

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Waning

A

Weaken, decrease in size

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Forbearance

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Patient self control; restraint and tolerance

86
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Wayside

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Side of the road; (fall by the wayside means fail to persist)

87
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Cessation

A

Process being brought to an end

88
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Vacuity

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Lack of though/intelligence/empty headedness

89
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Latitude

A

Scope for freedom or action of thought

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Indignation

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Annoyance at unfair treatment

91
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Insurmountability

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incapable of overcoming, passing over or surmounted

92
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Subordinated

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Lesser degree or importance

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Raillery

A

Good humored teasing

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Banter

A

Exchange freindly teasing remarks

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Invective

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Sojourners

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A temporary resident

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Prolocutor

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Chairperson, Presiding officer

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Phelgmatic

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Unemotional, Calm Disposition

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Cantankerous

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Bad-tempered, argumentative and uncooperative

100
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Detractor

A

Sombody who disparages someone or something

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