Unit 1 Flashcards

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1
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PHOT/PHOS

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“light”

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Phototropic

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Tending to grow or move toward light

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Phosphorescent

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Giving off light without heat

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Photogenic

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Attractive in pictures or photographs

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LUC

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“light”

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Lucid

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Easy to understand; clear

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Elucidate

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To make clear by understanding

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Translucent

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Allowing light to pass through

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SPEC/SPECT

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“to look at”

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Prospect

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That which is expected

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Specter

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A ghost or phantom

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VID/VIS

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” to see, to look at”

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Invidious

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Hateful or spiteful

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Providential

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Happening by good fortune

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Improvise

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to create without forethought or preperation

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Enunciate

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to pronounce or articulate

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Renounce

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to reject by deceleration

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Pronouncement

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A declaration of opinion ; judgement

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NUNC/NOUNC

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to announce

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VOK/VOC

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to call

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Invoke

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to call on for support

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provocative

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causing disturbance or excitement

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revoke

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to make invalid;deactivate

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FA

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to speak

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Infantile

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Childish;immature

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Affable

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easy to converse with; friendly

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DIC/DICT

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to say, to tell

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Edict

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an official order

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Indict

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to charge with crime; accuse

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dictum

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a formal or authoritative statement

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HIB/HAB

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to have to hold

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prohibit

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to stop one from doing something; prevent

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Inhibit

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to get in the way; hinder

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34
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FUS/FOUND

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to pour out

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Suffuse

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to fill up within; to spread throughout

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Confound

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to confuse and frustrate

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infuse

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to inject; to fill something or someone with

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TEN/TAIN/TIN

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to hold

39
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sustain

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to support for an extended period of time

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abstain

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to not do something; refrain

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tenacious

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stubbornly persistent; determined

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retinue

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a group that attends an important person

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PLE

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to fill

44
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Replete

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filled up with

45
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Implement

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to put into action; execute

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Deplete

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to use up;waste

47
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misinformation

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untrue or wrong information

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formative

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occurring at the time with most influence

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reform

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to bring back to rightness, order, mortality

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Inept

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Unskilled;clumsy

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FORM

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to form to establish

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APT/EPT

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to fit

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adept

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skilled;expert at

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Apptitude

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skilled or suitable for

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POS/PON

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to put in place

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posit

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to put forth; assert

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Dispotision

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attitude or mood

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Impose

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to forcibly place upon

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FIG

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to shape

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Figment

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something invented or imaginary

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prefigure

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to look like or predict a later thing or event

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Effigy

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a figure constructed of mockery

63
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BELL

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war

64
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Bellicose

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warlike in nature

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Antebellum

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occurring before a war

66
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Belligerence

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Warlike mood or attitude

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AM

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love

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Enamored

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Fond of, feeling love towards

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Amiable

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Good-natured;cheerful

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Amicable

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Not bitter or hostile; friendly

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AGON

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contest, struggle

72
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Antagonize

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to act hostile towards; provoke

73
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protagonist

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The central character in a work of literature

74
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Antagonist

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One who is hostile towards; one who opposes

75
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PHIL

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love

76
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Philosophical

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calm and wise; reasonable

77
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philanthropy

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charitable donation to public causes

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Bibliophile

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one who loves books

79
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PED

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food

80
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Expedient

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practical; prudent

81
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Impediment

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Something that gets in the way, obstacle

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Pedestrian

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lacking excitement; ordinary and dull

83
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PED - 2

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child

84
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pedant

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one possessing abundant knowledge of minor, often uninteresting, things

85
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pedagogue

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a teacher, especially one who is dull and narrow minded

86
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VEST

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clothing

87
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travesty

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a bad imitation of; a preservation of

88
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vested

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significance to one’s own profit or well-being

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Vestment

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Clothing worn to symbolize religious or political authority

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Divest

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To strip or remove a title or potion of authority

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CORPOR/CORPU

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body

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Corporeal

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having to do with the body

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Corpulent

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Extremley fat; obease

94
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incorporate

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to bring together features, ideas, or elements