Vocab 01 Flashcards
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Useless or tedious printed material
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BUMF
bum fodder
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Two time british PM Robert Peel
Another name for a Police officer
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Bobby
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A pull over hood jacket long enough to cover the hips
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Anorak
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The old english word for Nose
List other words derived from it
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SNOWTE
Snort
snot
Sniffle
Snuffle
Snout
Snivel
Snore
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Ankle length Knickers are also known as
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Bloomers
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Loose fitting short pants gathered at the knee
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Knickers
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Knicker is an abbreviation for
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Knickerbocker
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Dutch like language spoken in South Africa
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Afrikaans
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Bright flowers with wide plate like petals
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Anemone
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Knickerbocker is an eponym of
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Diedrich Knickerbocker
The invented narrator of Washingtons Irvings book A history of New york
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Hot enough to make you sweat
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Sweltering
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Helot
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Svelte
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Personal clothing, accessories or equipment
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Accouterment
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Sentence with the word
Acoutrement
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Alex is a light traveller: he has crammed all his ACCOUTREMENTS in a single shopping bag
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Someone who is preoccupied possessing material Things
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Acquisitive
Children are naturally acquisitive. When they see something they want it
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Grassy plants with the highest concentration around wetlands
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Sedge
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Anything that is consistent ongoing and constant
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Unabating
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An outdoor area thats designed using plants that dont require much water to thrive
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Xeriscape
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A tuft of hair in a different direction from the rest
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Cowlick
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Lacking liveliness spirit or zest
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Vapid
1.Vapid song lyrics
2. gossipy, vapid woman obsessed in her own elegance.
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Force with a thumb
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Gouge
The accident left a big gouge on the side of the car
The lamp fell and gouged the table
The bomb gouged a large crater on the street
They felt they were being gouged by the oil companies
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A sudden short attack
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FORAY
A foray into enemy territory
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Someone or something that causes anxiety
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Vexation
1.The problems and vexations of everyday life.
2. The repeated vexations guaranteed that she couldnt get any work done.
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Strong feelings of embarrassment
Mortification
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An exemption from some rule or obligation
Dispensation
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Add details to clarify an idea
Expound
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To allow unwillingly or reluctantly
To envy or resent
Begrudge
*1. You shouldnt begrudge her success.*
*2. many commuters begrudge every minute spent in traffic.*
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An authoratative declaration
Dictum
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Habitually reserved and uncommunicative
Taciturn
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Spotlessly clean and fresh
Unsullied
*An unsullied reputation.*
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Opposite of Prudent
Imprudent
*1. An imprudent investor.*
*2. A sweet girl but so imprudent that no one trusts her with a secret.*
*3.It is politically imprudent to stir up a controvery during an election year.*
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When a literary or scholarly work is revised. A critical revision of a text
Recension
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An act or expression of criticism or censure
Reproof
*1. The fear of reproof prevented them from complaining.*
*2. Even in church we were not free from mothers familair reproof of our ingrained tendency to fidget in our seats.*
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A verbal attack that dosent let up
Harangue
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Expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Surmise
Conjecture
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To present something for acceptance or rejection
Proffer
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Humorous play on words
Paronomasia
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To represent an abstarct idea by a concrete instance
Instantiate
*Heroes instantiate ideals.*
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If you are between two places or experiences esp if you are transitioning between them
Liminal
*1. The liminal state between life and death.*
*2. Liminal visua; stimuli*
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To toss ideas around without focusing on one.
To discuss lightly or banteringly
Bandy
*1. names of potential running mates have been bandied about*
*2.Bandy compliments
*3. A gun is not a toy to be bandied about.*
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Extreme version of frugal or thrifty. A person who would save, gain or extort money by any means
Skinflint
*1. She is a penny pinching skinflint.*
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List the synonyms of Thrifty
Niggardly
Cheapskate
Provident
Penurious
Parsimonius
Penny Pincher
Economical
Thrifty
Tightwad
Tight Fisted
Scrooge
Skinflint
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Ragged or disreputable in appearance
Tatterdemalion
Ragamuffin
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Being in a decayed state or condition
Tatterdemalion
*One of those tatterdemalion towns of the rust belt where the factories closed down decades ago.*
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A Spanish or a Latin American military dictator
A Spanish Warlord
Caudillo
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When a person or a thing changes in a way that surprises you.
To change or alter greatly often in a grotesque or humorous manner
Transmogrify
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# Starts with the letter T
Silliy nonsensical talk
* Twaddle
* Taradiddle
* Tommyrot
* Tosh
* Trash
* Trumpery
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# Starts with T
Tasty
Toothsome
*A toothsome blonde ( sexually attractive)*
*Crisp toothsome fried chicken*
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# letter V
To depart quickly
Vamoose
*Its getting late so we had to Vamoose.*
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# Letter H
Something amazing, striking or extraordinary person or thing
Humdinger
*That was one humdinger of a storm.*
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Hornbeam
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Something that swings back and forth
Pendular
*Elections tend to be pendular.*
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Mix together especially text or idea
Conflate
* This unsettling book conflating journalism, personal reportage, sociology and philosophical inquiry
* Given its name St Thomas in Houstaon on occasion been conflated ( confused) with St Thomas in Minnesotta.
* Be careful not to conflate gossip with real news.
* The movie conflates documentary footage and dramatised reenactments so seamlesly that viewers may not know what is real and what is not.
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# Phrase
To surprise someone with something unexpected
Throw a curve ball
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To fish for Eels by pushing a baited hook into the holes in which they are hiding
Sniggle
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An english speaking person
Anglophone
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Do we post a letter or do we mail a letter
We mail a letter
*To post something is to publish it such as by putting it on a poster or a bulletein board.*
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To do something skilfully esp in a cunning way
ARTFUL
*THE CHESS PLAYER IS ARTFUL IN ESCAPING THE OPPONENTS ATTACKS.*
*The politician is artful in appealing to different groups of people.*
*An artful performance on the violin*
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WhEn you refuse to speak because you are in a bad mood. You are....
Sullen
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When you refuse to speak beause you are depressed, bitter and resentful. You are ....
Morose
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A protective structure on an animal or plant like a shell, exoskeleton or thorns
Armature
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A word to word translation from one language to another
Calque
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Spindle or pillars in the railing of a stairway
Baluster
## Footnote
many Balusters form a balustrade
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A governor in the province of ancient Persia
Satrap
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A feeling that makes the members of a group want to succeed. Team spirit
Esprit de Corps
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March out into an open ground
Debouch
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Davit
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In Grave circumstances or at the point of death
In Extremis
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A car that is old and unrealible
Clunker
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Nourished by organic compounds
Heterotrophic
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Improve in style appearance and flavour by a small change
Zhuzh
* What can we do to zhuzh up the grocery store bouquet
* Tortillas and bread can be zhuzhed up in a toaster or pan
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A harsh settlement imposed on a defeated party or nation
Diktat
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Doctrine promoting intellectual pleasure and avoiding pain
Epicureanism
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Bond requiring someone before a court
Recognizance
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Not diminishing in intensity or severity
Unmitigated
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Severe stomach pains or quesiness
Collywobbles
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Slowing of activity during summer
Estivation
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# Letter R
Exquisite, excessively refined, exotic
Recherche
* As usual the dinner was recherche
* Only extra virgin oil would do for a recherche dinner table.
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# Letter A
Harshness of tone or manner
Asperity
* He asked with some asperity just what they were implying
* That warm hug softened the asperity of her grief
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The state or quality of being faithless and disloyal
Perfidious
* They are guilty of perfidy
* His wifes perfidy was a moment of uncharacteristic weakness.
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# Letter D
Deceptive in words or action
Duplicitous
*Warned her not to trust the duplicitous art dealer.*
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# Letter A
Another word for skilled
Adept
*He was adept at managing his investments which always turned a handsome profit.*
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Synonyms of capricious
* Fickle
* Flighty
* Impulsive
* Changeable
* Whimsical
* Volatile
* Mercurial
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A pithy, punchy definition
* Aphorism
* Gnomic
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Two examples of a compound noun
* Lighthouse
* Powder Room
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Words invented as soundalikes
Onomatopoeia
* Squelch
* Plop
* burp
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Relating to drama and theatre
Thespian
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Thespian is an Eponym. Who has been behind this word
THESPIS
Father of Greek Tragedy
## Footnote
legend has it, he was the first poet to recite poetry on stage
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An object which imitates the design of a similar artefact in another material
Skeuomorph
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# Letter C
A rude mean spirited person
Churl
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People on the fringes of respecatable society like prostitutes, arms dealers and money lenders
Demi-monde
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A person who influences a controlling or mesmeric and usually sinister influence on another
Svengali
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# Letter H
Ridiculous nonsense and lies
Hogwash
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What does the phrase" he is over the barrel" mean
Drowning in deep trouble
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# Pissed
Soaked thoroughly, wet and full of moisture
* Permeate
* Imbued
* Impregnate
* Sodden
* Saturate
* Steeped
* Drenched
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Dressed very elegantly, Well grommed
Soigne
**She was dark, petite and soigne
* Soigne black dress
* Soigne restaurant
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# Letter J
Physically tired and exhausted
Bored and lacking enthusiasm
Jaded
*meals to tempt the most jaded appetites*
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* In ancient rome a powerful authority figure.
* The nobles who inherited land and ruled over it separately from the Greater kingdom
Palatine
