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Vocab 02 Flashcards

1
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English Trousers are American …..

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Pants

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English wardrobe are American…..

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Closet

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Letter A

Something that can be asserted

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Arguably
Your favourite teacher is arguably the best teacher in school.

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What does momentarily mean in British and American English

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  • For a moment
  • In a moment
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Clothes that are made to order, tailored especially for you

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Bespoke
A wealthy man can easily afford bespoke suits.
Bespoke tailors and bespoke suits

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Letter I

To stain

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Imbrue
The battle will only serve to imbrue their swords with blood.
Water imbrues your jeans when you walk down the street

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If you reject all moral beliefs and take the view that life has no meaning, you could be called a

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Nihilist

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A person who understands multiple languages

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Polyglot

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  • Coarse
  • Greedy
  • Glutinous
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  • Boorish
  • Swinish
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Letter F

Something that boosts, energizes and promotes

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Fillip

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A sour fruit related to oranges and lemons

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Yuzu

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  • Not trusted
  • Dangerous
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Treacherous
* Treacherous person
* Treacherous road

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13
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A smaller, slighlty less important embassy

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Legation

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Someone who helps another person commit a crime

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Abettor

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15
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Small birds who congregate on beaches in groups

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Plover

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Letter D

Analyse it completely and Carefully. Examining its ideas and languages esp to expose its contradictions and hidden meanings

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Deconstruct

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17
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A symbol that means divided by

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Obelus

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  • Bored with the pleasures of life because of frequent indulgence
  • Unconcerned
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Blase
* 1 Blase traveller*
2. His blase reaction to losing the match*

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Partial or a full sale of a companys division or assests

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Divestiture

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To seize and take control without authority

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Arrogate
* Shes arrogated the leadership role to herself.
* They have arrogated to themselves the power to change the rules arbitrarily.

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Letter M

  • Tastelessly showy
  • deceptively pleasing
  • relating to a prostitue
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Meretricious
* Meretricious yet a stylish book
* Meretricious praise, meretricious argument
* Meretricious relationships

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22
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An opening cut in the bulwark of the ship so that water falling on the deck can flow overboard
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Scupper

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An opening in the wall of a building through which water can drain from the floor or flat roof

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Scupper

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To defeat or put an end to
The latest information could ——-the peace talks

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Scupper

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To rail against something with hostility and passion.

Picture an old man banging his fist on the dinner table, railing against the evils of teenagers being allowed to listen to music and dance.

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Inveighs
Inveighed against the imperialist motives

Picture an old man banging his fist on the dinner table, inveighing against the evils of teenagers being allowed to listen to music and dance.

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26
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A large waterfall. Rush of water over a large precipice

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Cataract

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27
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Steep rapids in a river

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Cataract

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Letter C

Another word for downpour

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Cataract
* A cataract of rain
* A cataract of information

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word was originally used to describe the slang of thieves and rogues,

A characteristic language of a particular group

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Argot

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Letter E

Audacious behaviour that you have no right to

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Effrontery

When a couple stroll into a crowded restaurant, demand the best table, and threaten the staff unless they’re seated right away, that’s effrontery.

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Letter H

Dramatic, overdone, emotional actions and words that are done to influence someone.

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Histrionics

Exaggerated crying, unnecessary yelling, and overdone gestures are all examples of histrionics.

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32
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A burning desire to have more wealth than you need.

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Cupidity

Though it sounds like it might have something to do with the little winged figure who shoots arrows and makes folks fall in love on Valentine’s Day, cupidity is all about the love of money. It comes to us from Latin cupidus, which means “desirous.” I

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33
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The outcome of a complex sequence of event

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Denouement

Day-noo-Mon

Denouement is a French word that literally means the action of untying, from a verb meaning to untie.

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34
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1.An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
2. a newspaper format that is printed on large sheets of paper and is characterized by its long vertical pages

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Broadsheet

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Publications that come out on a regular basis.

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Periodicals

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A newspaper, especially one that’s smaller than a traditional daily paper and focuses on sensational news items.

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Tabloid

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To describe someone or something that is beyond compare, an absolute model of perfection of a particular thing.

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Nonpareil
Jane Austen was a writer nonpareil, and James Bond a spy nonpareil.
Her performance was nonpareil
Our bakers cakes are nonpareil
A nonpareil drummer

Coming from the medieval French words non, meaning “not,” and pareil, meaning “equal,” so quite literally it means “not equal” . the use of nonpareil is generally restricted to written form. Use with caution.

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Letter A

Fitting or relevant.

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Apposite
It is apposite that radio stations play Christmas carols on Christmas Eve,

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39
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A social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated

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Pluralism

The extreme opposite of pluralism is totalitarianism, when one supreme dictator makes all the decisions and no one can contradict him.

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40
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In the Catholic Church the practice of holding more than one office at once.

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Pluralism

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letter L

A person who supports progressive or socialist ideas is a

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Leftist

This meaning goes back to the seating arrangement of legislators in the Estates General during the French Revolution: those seated on the left supported the revolution, and came to be called la gauche, or “the left.” Leftists is just another way to describe anyone with progressive or liberal political beliefs.

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42
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A witty statement, or a very well-chosen word

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Bon Mot

The most popular guest at a party is probably the one who keeps everyone chuckling with his bons mots.

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43
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when you use words that have the same sound at the beginning

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Alliteration

“Stellar students synthesize sweet sentences.”

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44
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a word for someone (or something) unique, excellent, and superior.

eminent beyond or above comparison

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Peerless

Picasso, Gandhi, and Shakespeare are considered peerless. The rest of us have a lot of peers.

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45
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a fake version of something real

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Simulacrum

A wax museum is full of simulacrums of famous people.Also, a simulacrum can be a representation that’s not very good. If you say, “This video game is only a simulacrum of playing football!” that means it does a poor job of copying the game.

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46
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an assortment of different things

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Smorgasbord

a magazine might feature a smorgasbord of stories on a wide variety of subjects.Use the noun smorgasbord when you’re talking about a selection of things, like a fabulous breakfast buffet, a long list of college classes you could take, or a motley group of camping companions. In Swedish, a smörgåsbord is a table full of different sandwich offerings.

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47
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something abstract, you make it real.

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Reify

You might reify your affection for Italy by hanging posters of the Italian Riviera on your wall and cooking Italian food every night.

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48
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The complete work of a writer or an artist

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Oeuvre

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49
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someone or something that is romantic and unrealistic, or possessed by almost impossible hopes.

not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic

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Quixotic

50
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to justify or support the ideas behind something

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Underpin

your extensive research underpins your self-published book on ice cream trucks in the United States.

51
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Letter S

A nickname

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Sobriquet

52
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something universal, or something that has a wide, general application.

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Ecumenical

Today it most often refers to bringing people of diverse Christian religions together; however, an ecumenical service might bring Christians, Jews, and Muslims together under one roof.

53
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Letter A

Openly declared as such

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Avowed
Nehru was an avowed agnostic.

54
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If you intrude on people without their permission, you are an

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Interloper

The noun interloper may also refer to something other than a person: “The new chain superstore built at the edge of town and was an interloper among the various mom-and-pop grocery stores in the area.”

55
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Letter A

self-evident truth

Taken for granted

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Axiomatic
It is axiomatic that good athletes have strong mental attitudes

56
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serving no useful purpose

Its also an old word for Lazy

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Otiose
Largely otiose Vice Presidency.

that steak knife next to your plate is otiose if you’re having oatmeal for dinner. If you’re already wearing suspenders, then a belt is otiose.

57
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The surgical removal of a body part or part of a tissue

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Ablation

if an oncologist removes a cancerous growth, thats ablation. If a limb is being amputated, thats ablation. If a dentist pulls out a tooth that ablation

58
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The derivation of sexual gratification from being subject to physical pain or humiliation by onself or another person

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Masochism

Austrian writer Leopold Von Sacher Masoch. The term was coined by psychiatrist EBING

59
Q

A wooded uninhabited area

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Willowwacks

60
Q

A wooded ship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or Steel armour

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Iron Clad

an ironclad guarantee, an ironclad promise

61
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Letter S

A flighty and disorganised person

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Scatterbrain

62
Q

Think blood suckers like mosquitoes, bed bugs , leeches and vampire bats

An animal that gets its nourishment from blood.

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Sanguivorous

63
Q

Right of access to water

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Riparian rights

64
Q

Anything located on or on the banks of a river

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Riparian

65
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Letter A

How reflective and bright something is

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Albedo

ratio of reflected light to incident light

66
Q

A practice play between two teams

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Scrimmage

67
Q

A noisy riotous fight

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Scrimmage

68
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When something is really extraordinary. it’s really unusual or even unprecedented, and well worth remarking on

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Doozy

whether you’re admiring a doozy of a sunset or having another doozy of an argument with your twin sister. If it’s a doozy, it’s really unusual or even unprecedented

69
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A continual involuntary repetition of thought

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Perseveration

70
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A personality thats bitter and even toxic

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ASTRINGENT

You know that vinegar-like liquid teens put on their faces in order to tighten their pores and dry up their pimples? That’s astringent. An astringent personality, on the other hand, is perceived as bitter and perhaps even a bit toxic.

71
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A minor parish official who serves in a smaller church function

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Beadle

72
Q

A broad flat Italian bread thats deliciously chewy and great for Sandwiches

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Ciabatta

73
Q

Someone who tells the future by examining the dead animals organs

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Haruspex

74
Q

A condiment made of chopped sweet peppers, pickles and tomatoes

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Picalilli

75
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Truly remorseful and contrite

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Penitential

76
Q

Becoming the most complete version of yourself, as one possibly can

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Self Actualization

77
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A complete group or a collection of something. any collection in its entirety

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Caboodle

Your eccentric aunt might send you her doll collection, enclosing a note that says, “I gave you the whole caboodle!” frequently within the phrase “the whole kit and caboodle,”

78
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A series of things

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Concatenation
“it was caused by an improbable concatenation of circumstances”

79
Q

A short poetic form about a famous person

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Clerihew

A clerihew must have four lines and consist of rhyming couplets. A clerihew should also be about a famous person.

80
Q

Humorous form of poetry that rhymes and has five lines

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Limerick

81
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Letter C

Dance around all crazy and jumping on and over anything

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Cavort

82
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Have a complex, illogical and bizarre character
Anything that is strange and nightmarish

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Kafkaesque

People often use this adjective for interactions that are unnecessarily bureaucratic or complicated. But some kafkaesque situations involve a feeling of oppression or danger, like a kafkaesque nightmare that leaves you feeling uneasy even after you wake up.

83
Q

The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes. Foot fetishism

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Retifism

It’s named after Nicolas-Edme Rétif de la Bretonne, a French novelist who wrote a novel about it called Fanchette’s Foot.

84
Q

An organsim that thrives in sandy areas like desert and coastal area

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Psammophile

85
Q

A quick sprinted Italian folk dance that involves spinning and often playing the tambourine

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Tarantella

86
Q

Woodlands along the banks of a forest or a stream

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Riparian Woodlands

87
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Letter D

Something that can be cancelled or changed

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Defeasible

a defeasible law or rule is subject to change.You’re most likely to come across the word defeasible in legal or philosophical writing. An attorney, for example, might help a client establish a defeasible estate — this means that property or land left in a will comes with certain conditions attached.

88
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Anything that acts as a memorial to someone or something

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Commemorative

89
Q

When it seems that you are doomed to have bad luck

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Star Crossed

camping plans are star-crossed if it rains every time you head into the woods with your sleeping bag.

90
Q

The practice of an election winner giving government jobs to supporters , friends and family members

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Spoils System

91
Q

An inclination to act purposefully

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Conation

You might be smart enough to get a PhD, but you’ll also need the conation to research and write a 200-page dissertation

92
Q

An adjective describing tortoises and turtles

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Chelonian

93
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Letter Q

A small argument or a fight

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Quibble

94
Q

A style of painting thats so realistic that it apperas to be three dimensional

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Trompe L’oeil

Tromp Loy

95
Q

Fear of Snakes

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Lepidophobia
Ophidiophobia
Herpetophobia

Herpetophobia is actually fear of reptiles

96
Q

Fear of butterflies or moths

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Lepidopterophobia

97
Q

In the biblical times it was a unit of money.
Ancient unit of currency or weight

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Talent

98
Q

In the Roman Republic the military unit composed of 120 soldiers fighting in the formation of three long lines

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Maniple

99
Q

A victory which is won but at too great a cost

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Pyrrhic

100
Q

A person who is easily tricked or swindled

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Piegon

101
Q

Long haired LLama

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Alpaca

102
Q

A small sash worn by a catholic priest orginally carried on his hand

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Maniple

103
Q

A judges decision that does not settle the whole matter

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Interlocutory decree

104
Q

Letter Q

Another word for essence or eccentricity

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Quiddity

105
Q

The theory that lower taxes , less regulation of business and free trade, stimulate production and improves the countrys economy is

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Supply side economics

106
Q

In Economics to cut out the middle man, simplifying a transaction by selling directly to the consummer instaed of using distributor

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Disintermediate

107
Q

Capable of being cancelled or rescinded

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Defeasible
Voidable

108
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Letter S

Someone who gives the smartest advise like your brilliant insightful teacher

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Sapient

109
Q

A policy aimed at recovering the nations lost territory

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Revanche

110
Q

A ships discarded or lost cargo that has sunk to the sea floor. usually attached to a buoy

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Lagan

111
Q

Someone who is not autistic and does not have any developmental disorder that affects the nervous system

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Neurotypical

112
Q

A small gift given by the merchant to the customer

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Lagniappe

113
Q

A large travelling bag made of stiff leather

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Portmanteau

114
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  1. To abolish by authoritative action
  2. To fail to do what is required
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Abrogate

  1. Abrogate a treaty
  2. The companys directors are accused of abrogating their responsibilities
115
Q

The study of Knowledge

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Epistemology

116
Q

A preparation to enhance flavour

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Condiment

Mustard and ketchup are condiments

117
Q

The spicy or savoury condiment you slather on hotdogs or hamburgers is

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Relish

118
Q

Two unstresed syllables followed by a stressed syllable

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Anapest

119
Q

Someone who is innovative and open to new ideas

Modern or innovative

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Neoteric

You might prefer to eat at the familair neighbourhood pub instaed of the slick neoteric restaurant.

120
Q

An old fashioned mans hat with three points or corners

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Tricorn

The first few US presidents wore this.The famous portrait of George washington crossing the Delaware river was with this hat

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