Vicab Final Flashcards

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Elegy

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Sad or mournful poem

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Hubris

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Excessive pride or self-confidence

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Shard

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Something broken with sharp edges

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4
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Sibilant

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Hissing effect; shh

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5
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Regale

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Entertain or amuse (someone) with talk

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Sacrosanct

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Too value or important to interfered with

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7
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Raiment

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Clothing

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8
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Ferret

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Type of rodent

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9
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Bowdlerize

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To remove offensive passage of a play, novel etc

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10
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Panache

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Self-confidence in showy manner

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11
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Palliative

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To ease to lossen to soothe

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12
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Obviate

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To prevent , get around

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13
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Offal

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Garbage, waste parts

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14
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Meretricious

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Lying, false. Deceitful

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15
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Nebulous

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Hazy, vague, uncertain

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16
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Affluence

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Wealth, richness

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Labyrinth

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Complicated network of winding passages a maze

18
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Kismet

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Destiny fate fortune

19
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Libertine

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One who leads an immortal life

20
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Hol polloi

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Common people: masses

21
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Hybrid

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Anything mixed orgin

22
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Grotesque

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Absurd : distorted

23
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Gumption

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Courage , common sense, initiative

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Empirical

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Based on experience rather then theory

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Emendation
Correction
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Egregious
Remarkably bad, outrageous
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Ebullient
Enthusiastic
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Chagrin
Embarrassment complete loss of courage
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Celibate
Unmarried no sex
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Bona fide
Good faith
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Carcinogenic
Causing cancer
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Adventitious
Accidental nonessential
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Aesthetic
Pertains to beauty