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Units 1-3 Vocabulary Cumulative Review Flashcards

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Acquisitive (Adj)

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able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

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Arrogate (verb)

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to claim or take without right

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Banal (Adj)

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Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

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Belabor (Verb)

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To work on excessively; to thrash soundly

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Carping (Adj or Noun)

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(Adj) continually complaining or finding fault about small, meaningless matters

(Noun) continual complaining or finding fault about trivial matters)

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Coherent (Adj)

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Holding or stacking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

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Congeal (Verb)

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To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

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Emulate (Verb)

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To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

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Encomium (Noun)

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A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

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Eschew (Verb)

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To avoid, shun, keep away from

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Germane (Adj)

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Relevant, appropriate, fitting

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Insatiable (Adj)

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So great or demanding as not to be satisfied

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Instransigent (Adj)

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Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

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Invidious (Adj)

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Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

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Largesse (Noun)

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Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contribution

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Reconnaissance (Noun)

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A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection of examination

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Substantiate (Verb)

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To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

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Taciturn (Adj)

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Habitually silent or quiet; included to talk very little

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Temporize (Verb)

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To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

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Tenable (Adj)

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Capable of being held or defended

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Accost (verb)

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approach and speak to first; confront in a challenging or aggressive way

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Animadversion (noun)

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a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

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Avid (adjective)

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desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

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Brackish (adjective)

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having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

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Celerity (noun)

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swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

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Devious (adjective)

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straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhand way

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Gambit (noun)

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in chess and opening move that involves risk or sacrifice or a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

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Halcyon (noun or adjective)

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(n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent

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Histrionic (adjective)

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pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

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Incendiary (adjective or noun)

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adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to sir up strife or rebellion; (n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who cases strife

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Maelstrom (noun)

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whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction

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Myopic (adjective)

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nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

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Overt (adjective)

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open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is not easily recognized

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Pejorative (adjective)

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tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling

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Propriety (noun)

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the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper

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Sacrilege (noun)

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improper or disrespectful treatment

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Summarily (adverb)

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without delay or formality; briefly, concisely

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Suppliant (adjective or noun)

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(adj) asking humbly and earnestly (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

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Talisman (noun)

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an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish

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Undulate (verb)

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to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form

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Articulate (verb)

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to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; to be expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully

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Cavort (Verb)

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(verb) to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry

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Credence (Noun)

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belief; mental acceptance

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Decry (Verb)

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to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate

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Dissemble (Verb)

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to disguise or conceal; deliberately give a false impression

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Distraught (Adj)

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very much agitated or upset as a result or emotion or mental conflict

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Eulogy (Noun)

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a formal statement of commendation; high praise

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Enince (verb)

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to display clearly, make make evidence, to provoke

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Exhume (Verb)

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to remove from a grave; to bring to light

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Feckless (Adj)

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lacking in spirit or strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable

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Murky (Adj)

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dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision

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Nefarious (Adj)

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wicked, depraved, devoid or moral standards

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Piquant (Adj)

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stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative

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Primordial (Adj)

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developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic

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Propinquity (Noun)

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nearness in place or time; kinship

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Unwonted (Adj)

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not usual or expected; not in character

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Utopian (Adj)

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founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical

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Verbiage (Noun)

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language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression

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Verdant (Adj)

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green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgment

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Viscous (adj)

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having a gelatinous or gluey quality; lacking in easy movement or fluidity

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