TKAM Vocab 2 Flashcards
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Sustain: verb
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- lengthen or extend duration or space
- supply with necessities and support
- provide with nourishment
- admit as valid
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Hypocrite
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A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives (noun)
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Cantankerous: adjective
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- stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
- having a difficult and contrary disposition
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Peril: noun
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- a state of danger involving risk
- a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
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Contradict: verb
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- to go against or say the opposite of someone
- to prove negative; to show to be false
- to deny the truth of
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Acquire: verb
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-to come to possess an object, a trait, a skill, or an inability
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Pensive: adjective
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- meditating; lost in thought
- contemplative
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Antagonize: verb
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- to cause to become hostile
- to incur the dislike of
- to provoke someone to react angrily
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Contemporaries: noun
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- people or things existing at the same time
- people of roughly the same age
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Emerge: verb
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- to come forth into view or notice
- to rise up from (or as if from) water or other liquid
- to come into existence
- to rise in status, state, or condition
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Infallible: adjective
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- absolutely trustworthy or sure
- exempt from mistakes
- certain
- reliable
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Stealthy: adjective
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- sneaky
- characterized by great caution or secrecy
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Irrelevant: adjective
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- does not apply
- not important
- not relating to the matter at hand
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Pursuit: noun
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- an occupation; a pastime; a hobby
- an effort to secure or attain; a quest
- the act of pursuing
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Inevitable: adjective
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- certain
- necessary
- unable to be avoided
- sure to occur
