Units 1-6 Vocabulary Flashcards
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commendation, sanction
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approbation
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mitigate, alleviate, allay, slake
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assuage
3
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alliance, federation, league, combine
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coalition
4
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degeneration, corruption
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decadence
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call forth, evoke, extract, deduce
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elicit
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protest, remonstrate, complain
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expostulate
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banal, trite, commonplace, corny
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hackneyed
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pause, lacuna
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hiatus
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insuation, intimation
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innuendo
10
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intervene, mediate
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intercede
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sated, surfeited, cloyed
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jaded
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gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly
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lurid
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praiseworthy, laudable, commendable
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meritorious
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irritable, waspy, testy
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petulant
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perquisite, perk
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prerogative
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narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive
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provincial
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feign, pretend, affect
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simulate
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surpass, outstrip
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transcend
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irritation, pique, annoyance
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umbrage
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mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy
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unctuous
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loathe, abhor, despise, detest
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abominate
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adaptation
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acculturation
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extrinsic, incidental, fortuitous
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adventitious
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impute, credit, attribute
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ascribe
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indirect, meandering, winding
circuitous
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feel sorry for, empathize
commiserate
27
bid, charge, command, adjure
enjoin
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speed up, facilitate, accelerate
expedite
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make amends for, make reparations, redeem, atone
expiate
30
commotion, turmoil, unrest
ferment
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titular, token, trifling, inconsequential
nominal
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cagey, uninformative, playing it safe, playing it to the vest
noncommital
33
misappropriate, embezzle, defraud
peculate
34
natural bent, penchant, propensity
proclivity
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poise, self-assurance, equanimity
sangfroid
36
mutinous, rebellious, subversive
seditious
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flimsy, insubstantial, vague, hazy
tenuous
38
withering, acerbic, mordant
vitriolic
39
cajole, inveigle, soft-soap, sweet-talk
wheedle
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accidental, unconsidered
inadvertent
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amend, better
ameliorate
42
levelheadedness, self-possession, composure
aplomb
43
inflated, highfalutin, high-flown, pretentious
bombastic
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green, raw, unfledged, inexperienced
callow
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balderdash, hogwash, tommyrot, slaver
drivel
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abstract, digest, model, archetype
epitome
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entreat, implore, adjure
exhort
48
encroach, impinge, intrude, poach
infringe
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cozy up to, curry favor with
ingratiate
50
trespasser, meddler, buttinsky
interloper
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immanent, organic
intrinsic
52
rail, harangue, fulminate, remonstrate
inveigh
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fatigue, lethargy, torpor, langour
lassitude
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chiliad, golden age, prosperity, peace
millenium
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supernatural, esoteric, abstruse, arcane
occult
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provoke, produce, reckless, impetuous
precipitate
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stern, rigorous, tough, urgent, imperative
stringent
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infer, gather, inference, presumption
surmise
59
genial, amicable, agreeable, cordial
affable
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augment, amplify, enhance, exalt
aggrandize
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formless, unstructured, nebulous, inchoate
amorphous
62
ambience, atmosphere
aura
63
illicit, bootleg, unlawful
contraband
64
profoundly educated, well-read
erudite
65
filmy, diaphanous, sheer, airy, feathery, gauzy
gossamer
66
gather, deduce, presume, guess, speculate
infer
67
impenetrable, incomprehensible, enigmatic
inscrutable
68
narrow-minded, parochial, provincial
insular
69
irreversible, unrecallable, unalterable
irrevocable
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natural bent, proclivity, penchant
propensity
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petulant, touchy, cranky, irritable
querulous
72
reason against, expostulate
remonstrate
73
disavow, abjure, renounce
repudiate
74
springy, elastic, buoyant, bouncy
resilient
75
rumble, thunder, boom, echo
reverberate
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obscene, filthy, abusive, vituperative
scurrilous
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assiduous, tireless, indefatigable
sedulous
78
inferior, cheesy, tawdry, tatty
sleazy
79
home rule
autonomy
80
taken for granted
axiomatic
81
broadcast, trumpet
blazon
82
admonition, word to the wise
caveat
83
right, reasonable, evenhanded
equitable
84
disentangle, extract, disengage
extricate
85
pilfer, purloin, swipe
filch
86
scoff at, sneer at, snicker at, scorn
flout
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refractory, recalcitrant, peevish
fractious
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principle, maxim
precept
89
salubrious, curative
salutary
90
searing, harsh, ferocious, savage
scathing
91
flog, beat, bane, plague, pestilence
scourge
92
doleful, lugubrious, mortuary
sepulchral
93
narcotic, anesthetic
soporific
94
highly conventional, overly strict, stuffy
straitlaced
95
impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent
transient
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cumbersome, bulky, clumsy, impractical
unwieldy
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insipid, lifeless, colorless
vapid
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exceptional, atypical, unusual, aberrant
anomalous
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innuendo, calumny, denigration
aspersion
100
grotesque, fantastic, outlandish
bizarre
101
curt, tactless, ungracious, gruff, rough
brusque
102
wheedle, inveigle, soft-soap, sweet-talk
cajole
103
chastise, rebuke, censure, upbraid
castigate
104
think up, devise, concoct, fabricate
contrive
105
rabble-rouser, firebrand
demagogue
106
undeceive, enlighten, set straight
disabuse
107
languor, world-weariness, listlessness
ennui
108
bond, restraint; bind, hamper
fetter (Nouns, Verbs)
109
evil, odious, abominable, outrageous
heinous
110
unchangeable, unalterable, fixed, invariable
immutable
111
revolutionary, rebellious, mutinous
insurgent
112
delusions of grandeur
megalomania
113
"no-show" job, cushy job, "plum"
sinecure
114
furtive, covert, clandestine, concealed
surreptitious
115
overstep, exceed, trespass, err
transgress
116
transform, convert, translate, metamorphise
transmute
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surrogate, substitute, imagined, secondhand
vicarious
