UNIT 7 Flashcards

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surfeit

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an excessive amount

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paucity

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lack

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copious

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abundant

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barren

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sterile

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capacious

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having lots of room

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scanty

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barely enough

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replete

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completely filled

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sparse

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scattered (rozrzucony)

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voluminous

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having great size

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desolate

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deserted

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diminutive

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tiny

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meager

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inadequate

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rarefy

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to make less

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rife

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plentiful

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tribulation

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a cause of great trauble

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despondent

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lacking hope

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doleful

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depressed

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anemic

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anemiczny

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malady

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a disease

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anguish

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extreme suffering

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dirge

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a funeral song

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blight

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a diseased condition

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affliction

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a disorder causing suffering

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elegy

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a poem realting to death

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epitaph
napis nagrobny
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doldrums
persistent unhappiness
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adversity
misfortune
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etymology
to study the origin of words
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semantics
the study of the meanings of words and symbols
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entomology
the study of insects
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fecund
fruitful
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fallow
unused
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desiccated
completely dried out
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quagmire
difficult situation / bagno
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bucolic
characteristic of the countryside
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cultivate
to grow crops
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barren
niezyzny
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arid
extremely dry
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astral
relating to the stars
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nautical
pertaining to sailing
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lunar
relating to the moon
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cosmic
relating to the universe
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celestial
relating to the sky
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arable
zyzny
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archeology
archeologia
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anthropology
the study of human cultures
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ethics
the study of philosophy of moral choice
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theology
teologia
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pathology
the study of diseases
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sociology
the study of human social behaviour
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genealogy
geneologia
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demographics
the study of statistics relating to human populations
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oncology
onkologia
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paleontology
the study of fossils and ancient life
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neurology
neurologia
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hermit
one who prefers to live alone
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ostracize
to exclude from a group
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exile
a banishment
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expel
wyrzucic
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recluse
one who likes to live alone
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isolate
to place sth apart from everything else
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solitude
isolation
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banish
to force to leave an area
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outcast
wyrzutek
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seclusion
privacy
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pariah
outcast
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relegate
to banish
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quarantine
kwarantanna
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disseminate
to spread information
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diverge
to go apart
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proliferate
to grow rapidly
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amass
to gather together
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distend
to increase in size
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propagate
to cause to multiply
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inundate
to flood
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diffuse
to spread out (as a gas)
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germinate
to grow
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disperse
to spread apart
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rampant
growing out of control
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dissipate
rozrzucac
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saturate
to fill completely
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annex
to acquire land to expand an existing country
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addendum
sth added
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postscript
a message added after completion of a letter
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epilogue
an extra chapter added onto the end of a novel
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append
to add on
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adjunct
added in a subordinate capacity
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augment
to make greater
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cession
capitulation
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affix
to attach
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appropriate
to allocate
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encore
bis
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appendix
supplementary material at the end of a text
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supplement
to add
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circumscribed
having distinct boundaries or limits