TOTC Vocab #2 Flashcards

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1
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Disparage

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To degrade, to speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner

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Dissociate

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Separate

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Dissolution

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Disintegration, decomposition, and dispersion

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Docile

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Easily manages, obedient, passive

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5
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Edifice

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A very large building

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Elicit

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To bring out a response, to evoke

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Emancipated

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Very thin

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8
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Embellish

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To decorate, make beautiful with ornamentation

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Emulate

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To try to equal or to be like

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Engender

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To cause, to produce, to create

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Engrossed

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Completely occupied, absorbed

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12
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Entreaty

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To plea

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13
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Evanescent

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Fleeting; impermanent

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14
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Execrable

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Extremely bad, deserving of hate

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Expeditious

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Done with speed and efficiency

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Felicitous

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Happy or delightful

17
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Ferocity

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Savagery

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Florid

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Flowery, flushed with color

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Forbearance

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Patience, lenience

20
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Foreboding

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Premonition of evil, an ominous omen

21
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Forensic

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Pertaining to debate or argument

22
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Furtive

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Secret in an underhanded way, stealthy

23
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Galling

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Very irritating

24
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Gaunt

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Very thin

25
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Gravity

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Serious, important

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Hideous

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Very ugly, offensive

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Impel

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To urge or to drive forward

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Implacable

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Incapable of being appeased

29
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Impute

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To blame or to charge

30
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Incorrigible

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Incapable of being reformed or improved

31
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Infallible

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Incapable of error

32
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Infamous

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Having s reputation of the worst kind

33
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Disdain

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Intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy