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Unit 4 Flashcards

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Prodigy

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N. An extremely talented child; an extraordinary accomplishment or occurrence

The three year old prodigy could play all of Beethoven and most of Brahms on his harmonica

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Profane

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Adj. not having to do with religion; irreverent

Sticking out your tongue in church would be a profane gesture

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Profess

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V. To declare; to declare falsely or pretend

Jason professed to have taught himself calculus

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Proficient

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Adj. thoroughly competent; skillful; good

I fiddled around at the piano for many years but never became proficient at playing

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Profligate

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Adj. extravagantly wasteful and, usually, wildly immoral

The young heir was profligate with his fortune, spending millions on champagne and racehorses

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Proletariat

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N. The industrial working class

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Proliferate

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V. To spread or grow rapidly

Honey bees proliferated when we filled our yards with flowering plants

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Propensity

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N. A natural inclination or tendency; a predilection

Jessie has a propensity for saying stupid things: every time she opens her mouth, something stupid comes out

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Proponent

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N. An advocate; a supporter of a position

The proponents of a tax increase will probably not be reelected next fall

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Proprietary

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Adj. characteristic of an owner of property; constituting property

George felt proprietary about the chocolate chip cookie recipe; he had invented it himself

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Propriety

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N. Properness; good manners

The old lady viewed the little girls failure to curtsy as a flagrant breach of propriety

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Prosaic

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Adj. dull; unimaginative; like prose

The little boys ambitions were all prosaic: he said he wanted to be an accountant, an auditor, or a claims adjuster

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Protract

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V. To prolong

The trial was so protracted that one of the jurors died of old age

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Provident

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Adj. preparing for the future; providing for the future; frugal

The provident father had long ago set aside money for the college education of each of his children

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Provincial

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Adj. limited in outlook to ones own small corner of the world; narrow

The farmers were provincial; they had no opinions about anything but the price of corn and no interest in anything except growing more of it

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Provisional

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Adj. conditional; temporary; tentative

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Proximity

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N. Nearness

In a big city, one is almost always in the proximity of a restaurant

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Prudent

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Adj. careful; having foresight

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Purported

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Adj. rumored; claimed

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Putative

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Adj. commonly accepted; supposed; reputed

The putative reason for placing the monument downtown is that nobody wanted it uptown

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Qualify

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V. To modify or restrict

Susan qualified her praise of Judith by saying that her kind words applied only to Judith’s skillful cooking and not her abhorrent personality

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Qualitative

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Adj. having to do with the quality or qualities of something

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Querulous

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Adj. complaining; grumbling; whining

The exasperated mother finally managed to hush her querulous child

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Quixotic

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Adj. romantic or idealistic to a foolish or impractical degree

For many years mr. Morris had led a quixotic effort to repeal the federal income tax

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Ramification

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N. A consequence; a branching out

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Rancor

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N. Bitter, long lasting ill will or resentment

The mutual rancor felt by the two nations eventually led to war

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Rapacious

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Adj. greedy; plundering; avaricious

Wall Street investment bankers are often accused of being rapacious, but they claim they are performing a valuable economic function

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Rebuke

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V. To criticize sharply

We trembled as mr. Solomon rebuked us for flipping over his car and taking off his tires

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Rebut

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V. To contradict; to argue in opposition to; to prove to be false

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Recalcitrant

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Adj. stubbornly defiant of authority or control; disobedient

The recalcitrant cancer continued to spread through the patients body despite every therapy and treatment the doctors tried

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Reciprocal

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Adj. mutual; shared; interchangeable

Their hatred was reciprocal; they hated each other

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Reclusive

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Adj. hermitlike; withdrawn from society

Our new neighbors were so reclusive at we didn’t even meet them until a full year after they had moved in

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Recondite

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Adj. hard to understand; over ones head

The philosophers thesis was so recondite that I couldn’t get past the first two sentences

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Recrimination

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N. A bitter counter accusations

Melissa was full of recrimination. When I accused her of stealing my pen she angrily accused me of being careless, evil, and stupid

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Redolent

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Adj. fragrant

The air in autumn is redolent of wood smoke and fallen leaves

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Redundant

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Adj. unnecessarily repetitive

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Refute

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V. To prove to be false

His expensive suit and imported shoes clearly refuted his claim that he was poor

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Reiterate

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V. To repeat

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Relegate

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V. To banish to a lower position

The most junior of the junior executives was relegated to a tiny windowless office that had once been a broom closet

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Remonstrate

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V. To argue against

My boss remonstrated with me for telling all the secretaries they could take off the rest of the week

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Renounce

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V. To give up formally

Despite the pleadings and protestations of her parents, Deborah refused to renounce her love for the leader of the motorcycle gang

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Repercussion

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N. A consequence

One repercussion of the new tax law was that accountants found themselves with a lot of new business

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Replenish

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V. To fill again

The commanding general replenished his army with a trainload of food and other supplies

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Replete

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Adj. abounding

The once polluted stream was now replete with fish of every description

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Reprehensible

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Adj. worthy of severe blame

He put the cat in the laundry chute, tied the dog to the chimney, and committed several other reprehensible acts

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Reprove

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V. To criticize mildly

My friend reproved me for leaving my dirty dish in the sink

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Repudiate

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V. To disown

Hoping to receive a lighter sentence, the convicted gangster repudiated his former connection to the mob

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Requisite

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Adj. required

Howard bought a hunting rifle and the requisite ammunition

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Prodigious

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Adj. extraordinary; enormous

The little boy caught a prodigious fish- it was ten times his size and might more easily have caught him had their situations been reversed

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Recant

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V. To publicly take back and deny; to openly confess error

The secret police to tired the intellectual for a week, by tickling his feet with a feather duster, until he finally recanted

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