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Unit 6B Flashcards

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(Adj.) performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another

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Vicarious

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(Adj.) stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud

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Surreptitious

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(Adj.) not subject to change, constant

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Immutable

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(N.) a delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc., far in excess of reality

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Megalomania

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(V.) to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law

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Transgress

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(N.) a position requiring little or no work; an easy job

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Sinecure

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(V.) to change from one nature, substance, or form to another

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Transmute

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(trans) (gress)

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(gress)

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(trans) (mute)

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(mute)

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(hei) (nous)

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(hei)

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(fett) (er)

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(fett)

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(vi) (car) (i) (ous)

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(car)

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(surr) (ep) (tit) (ious)

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(tit)

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Syn:(n.) bond, restraint,(v.) bind, hamper

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Fetter

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(Adj.) a very wicked, offensive, hateful

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Heinous

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Syn: overstep, exceed, trespass, err

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Transgress

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(in) (sur) (gent)

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(sur)

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Syn: revolutionary, rebellious, mutinous

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Insurgent

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Syn: delusions of grandeur

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Megalomania

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Ant: (v.) free, liberate, emancipate

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Fetter

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(N.) one who revels or rises against authority; (adj.) rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority; surging or rushing in

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Insurgent

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A town so peaceful, quiet, and law-abiding was bound to be horrified by so _________ a crime

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Heinous

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(meg) (a) (lo) (ma) (ni) (a)

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(ma) [the one right before lo and after ni]

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The old phrase “chain gang” refers to prisoners made to work each joined to the next by linked________

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(n.)Fetter

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Syn: furtive, covert, clandestine, concealed

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Surreptitious

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Syn: unchangeable, unalterable, fixed, invariable

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Immutable

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Syn: transform, covert, translate, metamorphose

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Transmute

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Ant: changeable, inconstant, variable, fickle

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Immutable

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Ant: loyalist, loyal, faithful

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Insurgent

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Syn: surrogate, substitute, imagine, secondhand

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Vicarious

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(N.) A chain of shackle placed on the feet ( often used in plural) anything that confines or restrains (v.) to chain or shackle; to render helpless or impotent

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Fetter

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Ant: maintain unchanged, preserve

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Transmute

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In search of_________excitement, we watched movies of action and adventure

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Vicarious

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Ant: excellent, wonderful, splendid

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Heinous

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(si) (ne) (cure)

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(si)

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It is said that good inventors do not ________ themselves with conventional thinking

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(v.)Fetter

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Ant: humility, modesty, self-abasement

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megalomania

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Scientists labored to discover a set of ________ laws of the universe

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Immutable

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George Washington and his contemporaries were _______ against Britain

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(n.)Insurgent

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Ant: open, frank, aboveboard, overt

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Surreptitious

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The office of Vice President of the United States was once considered little more than a ________

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Sinecure

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Ant: obey, toe the line

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Transgress

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The army was confident that they could crush the ___________ forces

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(adj.)Insurgent

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To _______ distrust into friendship along that war-torn border will take more than wise politicians and just laws

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Transmute

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Sudden fame and admiration can make people feel unworthy- or it can bring feelings of_______

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Megalomania

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(i) (mu) (ta) (ble)

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(mut)

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Syn: “No-show’ job, cushy job, “plum”

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Sinecure

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The penitent citizens promised to never again _______ the laws of the land

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Transgress

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Ant: real, actual, firsthand

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Vicarious

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Syn: evil, odious, abominable, outrageous

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Heinous

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