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Vocab 03 Flashcards

1
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To move in a clumsy and ungainly way

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Galumph

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A position someone automatically gains because of another job or position she holds

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EX Officio

The US VP is the ex officio president of the senate

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Elite Turkish soldier who was a member of the Sultans guard

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Janissary

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Letter J

A devoted follower or a steadfast ally

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Janissary

People chanting supportively and waving signs at political rallies are usually the candidates Janissaries

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Letter G

Utterly astounded

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Gobsmacked

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Someone who writes movie scripts

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Screen Writer

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Another word for a movie script

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Screen play

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A person employed to write ads or press releases

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Copy writer

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9
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Remembering the peaceful happy time of his youth

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Halcyon

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10
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Infested or damaged by worms

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Wormy

Vermiculate

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Decorated with worm like tracery or markings

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Vermiculate

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People constantly on the move , travelling from one location to another

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Peregrinate

The most common way to peregrinate is on foot, wandering from place to place, as when you decide to peregrinate around your city’s various neighborhoods pretending you’re a tourist.

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A condition of absolute contentment

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Elysium

*Finished your exams? Summer stretches in front of you? You’re in a state of Elysium, a condition of absolute contentment.

Named after the mythological Greek place where the illustrious dead went to hang out in the after life.

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Letter G

Marked by refinement in taste and manners

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Genteel

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Someone who sews tiny pleats in a fabric

An old fashioned fabric insert in the neck of the dress

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Tucker

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letter T

To exhaust or tire out

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Tucker

A long day at the zoo may tucker out your young brother

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17
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Bumped and pushed in a horde of people

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Jostle

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18
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Having a hardened crust

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Crusty

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19
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BSF

Brusque
Surly
Forbidding

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Crusty

  • Crusty remarks
  • Crusty old man
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Letter C

Annoyed and irritable

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Crabbed

ou can think of crabbed as describing what someone would be like if they were made into a crab

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21
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Of or relating to barbers or barbering

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Tonsorial

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22
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Phrase

Flatter with the intention of getting something

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Brown nose

Brown nosing his teacher.

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23
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Another word for undertaker or funeral director

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Mortician

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24
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A speech expressing farewell or leave taking

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Valedictory speech

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25
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Not very often used in english and not found in many dictionaries

Wealthy or rich but can also mean miserly or thrifty

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Pecunious

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People who are too rigid and narrow in their thinking. Exaggeratedly proper

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Straitlaced

My straitlaced aunt does not approve of my miniskirts

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27
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letter T

A person who would do anything to please his boss

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Toady

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28
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Anything characterized by sharp angles

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Angular

whether its a face with strikingly lean bone structure, a tall rectangular building, something written in arabic script.

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29
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Depraved behaviour

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Turpitude

  • Corrupt politicians get booted out of office because of acts of turpitude
  • Prisons are filled with criminals who have engaged in acts of moral turpitude
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30
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A small storeroom for storing foods or wines

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Buttery

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31
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Letter B

Unpleasantly and excessively suave

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Buttery

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32
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Having sticky properties of an adhesive. Glue like

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Glutinous

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33
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A Government report on any subject

A detailed or authoritative report

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White paper

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34
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A public statement stating your views

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Manifesto

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35
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Letter F

Anything that is funny is

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Facetious

Don’t take a facetious comment seriously because it’s supposed to be funny. Anything facetious is a joke. If you’ve just won a hotdog-eating contest and someone asks if you’d like to go out for burgers, they’re probably being facetious.

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36
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Grant freedom to esp from slavery or servitude

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Enfranchise

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37
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renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others

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Abnegation

Monks practice abnegation in material aspects of human life.

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38
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marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

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Pedantic

There’s nothing wrong with focusing on the details, but someone who is pedantic makes a big display of knowing obscure facts and details.

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39
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Remember Diaper

Synonyms for PEDANTIC

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  1. Donnish
  2. Inkhorn
  3. Academic
  4. Pedantic
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40
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appropriate (as property entrusted to one’s care) fraudulently for one’s own use

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Peculate

If you embezzle, especially if you steal public funds for your own private use, then you peculate that money. To peculate is, of course, illegal — if you’re caught, you can serve jail time.

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41
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Remember PEMDAS

List the synonyms of Peculate

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  1. Peculate
  2. Embezzle
  3. Malversate
  4. Defalcate
  5. Misappropriate
42
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to go back on your word or fail to keep a promise.

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Renege

Not quite lying, reneging is more a sin of omission — failing to do what you said you would.

43
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High fashion designing and dressmaking. The design, manufacturing, and sale of designer clothing.

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Couture

You might like to wear couture styles, but your job at the ice cream shop makes jeans and T-shirts a more appropriate choice.Haute couture, or “high” couture, is a step above couture, referring to the most exclusive designers and their wares. The closest the average person gets to haute couture is watching movie stars walk the red carpet on Oscar night.

44
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The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others

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shenanigan

45
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Tricky actions to hide or get something.

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Subterfuge

She employed a very clever subterfuge to get the information she needed.

If you want to surprise your mom with a sweatshirt, but don’t know her size, it might take an act of subterfuge, like going through her closet, to find it out.

46
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a common synonym of Shenanigan

students engaging in youthful shenanigans on the last day of school

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Chicanery

47
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Deviating from the general or common order or type

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Anomalous

*the recent discovery of ice, and therefore water, on the moon was anomalous to all previous ideas that the moon was lifeless. *

48
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Generally incompetent and ineffectual

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Feckless
Feckless attempts to repair the plumbing.
This politician is feckless.

49
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The appearance conveyed by a person’s face

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Countenance

50
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A common synonym of countenance

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Visage

51
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What does an obnoxious person have in common with sandpaper?

Sharply disagreeable

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Abrasive

An abrasive character

If you find someone abrasive, he or she grinds away at your nerves.

52
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Letter N

Injurious to physical or mental health

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Noxious

  1. Noxious chemical waste.
  2. Noxious ideas
53
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Chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)

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Vesicant
Vesicatory

54
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  1. ( Of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves.
  2. not easily irritated
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Placid
1. a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay
2. not everyone shared his placid temperament

55
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A trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease

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Amulet

56
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Synonym of Amulet is

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Talisman

57
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Letter R

  1. Having deserted a cause or principle
  2. Lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  3. Disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
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Recreant
1. some provinces had proved recreant
2. this recreant knight

A recreant is a heavy-duty coward. If your friend shoves you in front of him when a growling dog approaches, you’d quickly recognize him for the recreant that he is

58
Q

Michael apostle in the dessert, wearing coat with rats, recreation

List the synonyms of renegade

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  1. Apostate
  2. Desserter
  3. Turncoat
  4. Ratter
  5. Recreant
59
Q

To predict or reveal through divine inspiration

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Vaticinate

When you vaticinate, you tell the future

60
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Letter Z

Something that resembles an animal

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Zoic
The Zoic folklore of the plain Indians.
Making of Zoic hand shadows on the wall.

61
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Letter A

Someone who is careful, methodical and very consistent can be labelled as

A

Assiduous

62
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  • Boisterous
  • Aggresive
  • Noisy
  • Defiant
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Obstreperous

If you’ve been to a large concert where the band doesn’t come on stage for hours, you might have been part of an obstreperous crowd: increasingly impatient, with fights breaking out, things thrown up onto the stage, and demands being shouted, “Give us some music before the night is out!”

63
Q

Post fasting meal in ramadan

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Iftar

64
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Autumn harvest in India

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Kharif

65
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The south indian exaclamation

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Aiyo

66
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A hairstyle resembling a Mohawk, having a central ridge of upright hair but with the sides gathered or slicked upwards or back instaed of shaved

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Faux hawk

67
Q

An expression of exuberance or enthusiasm typically associated with cowboys of southern US

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Yeehaw

68
Q

A performance using gestures and body movements

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Pantomime

69
Q

A polynesian rain dance performed by women

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Hula

70
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Letter D

To force someone to do something. To coerce

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Dragoon

the way your best friend dragooned you into volunteering for the prom committee.

Long ago, dragoons were soldiers who rode horses into battle and were trained to fight either on foot or on horseback.

71
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The quickest speed at which music can be played

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Prestisimo

72
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The second quickest speed at which music can be played

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Presto

73
Q

A natural or human made arch that supports climbing plants

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Bower

74
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Letter U

In japanese cuisine a fresh water eel

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Unagi

75
Q

The act of stealing goods that are in display in a store.
Loss of inventory due to theft or shoplifting

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Shrinkage
The shops shrinkage rate improved after they installed security cameras

76
Q

(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

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Libellous

77
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LSD

Synonyms of Libellous

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  1. Libellous
  2. Slanderous
  3. Defamatory
  4. Denigrating
78
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A pile of odds and ends or a random assortment of stuff.

A

Farrago

A flea market usually features a farrago of antiques and old junk

kids get a farrago of treats — chocolates, lollipops, the occasional box of raisins — on Halloween.

If your teacher said your paper was a farrago of thoughts, that’s not good:

79
Q

Humbling a person in a mean base manner

A

Abase

Consider that the base of anything is the bottom, and you get an idea as to the meaning of the word abase, which means to make someone feel low.

80
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Letter V

Harmlessly stupid and truly meaningless

A

Vacuous
Celebrity gossip and reality TV are usually pretty vacuous, even if they’re fun.
If someone smiles at you in a way that seems fake or empty, you could describe the smile as vacuous.

vacuous is a smart-sounding way to describe something dumb. If something is vacuous, it’s like a vacuum — hollow, empty, devoid of substance.

81
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Letter A

If you say something harshly bitter to someone it can leave a bitter tatse in your own mouth

A

Acerbic

82
Q

A verse in which the first letter in each line form a word or message

A

ACROSTIC

83
Q

Someone or something that serves as an inspiration

A

Inspo

84
Q

An instance of an internet user visiting a page on the website

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Pageview

85
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Not having enough money to pay for necessities

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Impecunious
If you go into the arts, you are most likely facing an impecunious future.
If you gamble away your cash instead of saving it for rent, your landlord might throw you out for being impecunious.

impecunious doesn’t just mean having no money. It means that you almost never have any money.

86
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A cultural unit that is passed from one generation to another by non genetic means , as by imitation

a cultural unit is an idea, pattern or behaviour

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Meme
memes are the cultural counterpart of genes

An example of a meme is the cultural tradition of women wearing skirts.

87
Q

An amusing image, text, or video that spreads rapidly through social media

A

Meme

88
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An emotional poem or song that memoralizes someone who has died

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THRENODY

Your threnody to your beloved dog may be an important part of your grieving process.Eric Clapton’s 1991 song “Tears in Heaven,” written after the death of his young son.

89
Q

A literary device / a technique of writing about a work of visual art

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Ekphrasis

When a writer includes a vivid description of a painting in her novel

90
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Letter P

harmful and subtle

A

Pernicious
The pernicious effects of watching TV too much

91
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Letter B

Full of spirited enthusiasm

A

Brio

Energy, vivacity and style are all elements of Brio

92
Q

The act of making an accusation

A

Preferment

93
Q

mnemonic DUH, Letter A

Sharply
Disagreable
unpleasant
Harsh

A

Abrasive

94
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Letter S

Use of tricks to deceive someone

A

Shenanigans

95
Q

The particular sleepy combination of stretching and yawning

A

Pandiculation
In pandiculation the act of stretching is often slow

Animals are prone to pandiculations too extending their paws in a stretch and yawing widely

96
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Letter G

Bizarre and unconventional

A

Gonzo
Your wacky friends gonzo style of dressing
Gonzo stories on the news

Gonzo was the name of a character, Dr Gonza.
Gonza is also a writing style, Gonza journalism

97
Q

Name for a place or a group given by local people

A

Endonym

Locals refer to their city as Munchen, most english speakers call it Minuch

98
Q

Name for a place or a group given by people who dont live there

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Exonym

The locals call their city Munchen, the english speakers call it Munich

99
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Letter B

Somethings thats intricate and hard to understand

A

Byzantine
Byzantine tax structure
Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship

100
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TTICK

List the synnonyms of Byzantine

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  1. Tortuous reasoning
  2. Oh what a tangled web we weave
  3. The plot was tooinvolved
  4. **Convoluted **legal codes
  5. A knottyproblem

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