Verbal ability 3 Flashcards

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Convalescence

A

time spent recovering from an illness or medical treatment; recuperation.

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Damper

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a person or thing that has a depressing, subduing, or inhibiting effect.

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Lien

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a right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a debt owed by that person is discharged.

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Incumbent

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  1. necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility.
  2. the holder of an office or post.
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5
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dissipate

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(with reference to a feeling or other intangible thing) disappear or cause to disappear.

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Labyrinth

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a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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Fallow

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(of farmland) plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production.

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Rejuvenated

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having been given new energy or vigor; revitalized.

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9
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Caterwauling

A

make a shrill howling or wailing noise like that of a cat.

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indigent

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poor; needy.

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Illiterate

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unable to read or write.

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12
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domicile

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the country that a person treats as their permanent home, or lives in and has a substantial connection with.-resident

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13
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Cryptic

A

having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure.

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14
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Placate

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make (someone) less angry or hostile.- Appease

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15
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Appease

A

relieve or satisfy (a demand or a feeling).

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16
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Vitriolic

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filled with bitter criticism or malice.
-caustic

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zealot

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a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.
-fanatics

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Itinerant

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traveling from place to place.

19
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Empirically

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by means of observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

20
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Deciduously

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Shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season:

21
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Rhetorically

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in terms of rhetoric or speech intended to impress or persuade.

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Flaccid

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(of part of the body) soft and hanging loosely or limply, especially so as to look or feel unpleasant.

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Pernicious

A

having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.

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Neurotic

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having, caused by, or relating to neurosis.
-unstable

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Quixotic
exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.
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Solicitous
characterized by or showing interest or concern.
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Sorcerer is practice of
necromancy-the supposed practice of communicating with the dead, especially in order to predict the future.
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Masochism
the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation.
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Obstreperous
noisy and difficult to control.
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Obsequious
obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.