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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

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napis nagrobny

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doldrums

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persistent unhappiness

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adversity

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misfortune

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etymology

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to study the origin of words

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semantics

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the study of the meanings of words and symbols

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entomology

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the study of insects

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fecund

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fruitful

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fallow

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unused

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desiccated

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completely dried out

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quagmire

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difficult situation / bagno

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bucolic

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characteristic of the countryside

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cultivate

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to grow crops

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barren

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niezyzny

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arid

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extremely dry

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astral

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relating to the stars

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nautical

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pertaining to sailing

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lunar

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relating to the moon

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cosmic

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relating to the universe

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celestial

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relating to the sky

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arable

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archeology

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archeologia

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anthropology

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the study of human cultures

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ethics

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the study of philosophy of moral choice

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theology

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pathology

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the study of diseases

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sociology

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the study of human social behaviour

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genealogy

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geneologia

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demographics

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the study of statistics relating to human populations

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oncology

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paleontology

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the study of fossils and ancient life

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neurology

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neurologia

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hermit

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one who prefers to live alone

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ostracize

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to exclude from a group

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exile

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a banishment

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expel

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recluse

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one who likes to live alone

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isolate

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to place sth apart from everything else

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solitude

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banish

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to force to leave an area

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outcast

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seclusion

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pariah

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relegate

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quarantine

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kwarantanna

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disseminate

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to spread information

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diverge

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to go apart

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proliferate

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to grow rapidly

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amass

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to gather together

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distend

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to increase in size

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propagate

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to cause to multiply

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inundate

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diffuse

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to spread out (as a gas)

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germinate

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disperse

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to spread apart

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rampant

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growing out of control

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dissipate

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saturate

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to fill completely

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annex

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to acquire land to expand an existing country

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addendum

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postscript

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a message added after completion of a letter

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epilogue

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an extra chapter added onto the end of a novel

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append

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adjunct

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added in a subordinate capacity

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augment

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to make greater

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cession

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capitulation

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affix

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appropriate

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to allocate

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encore

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appendix

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supplementary material at the end of a text

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supplement

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circumscribed

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having distinct boundaries or limits

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