Vocab 03 Flashcards
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To move in a clumsy and ungainly way
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Galumph
2
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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
3
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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
5
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Letter G
Utterly astounded
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Gobsmacked
6
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Someone who writes movie scripts
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Screen Writer
7
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Another word for a movie script
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Screen play
8
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A person employed to write ads or press releases
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Copy writer
9
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Remembering the peaceful happy time of his youth
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Halcyon
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
12
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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
15
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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
17
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Bumped and pushed in a horde of people
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Jostle
18
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Having a hardened crust
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Crusty
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
21
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Of or relating to barbers or barbering
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Tonsorial
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Phrase
Flatter with the intention of getting something
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Brown nose
Brown nosing his teacher.
23
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Another word for undertaker or funeral director
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Mortician
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A speech expressing farewell or leave taking
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Valedictory speech
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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
Pecunious
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People who are too rigid and narrow in their thinking. Exaggeratedly proper
Straitlaced
*My straitlaced aunt does not approve of my miniskirts*
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# letter T
A person who would do anything to please his boss
Toady
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Anything characterized by sharp angles
Angular
## Footnote
whether its a face with strikingly lean bone structure, a tall rectangular building, something written in arabic script.
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Depraved behaviour
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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A small storeroom for storing foods or wines
Buttery
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# Letter B
Unpleasantly and excessively suave
Buttery
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Having sticky properties of an adhesive. Glue like
Glutinous
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A Government report on any subject
A detailed or authoritative report
White paper
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A public statement stating your views
Manifesto
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# Letter F
Anything that is funny is
Facetious
## Footnote
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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Grant freedom to esp from slavery or servitude
Enfranchise
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renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
Abnegation
*Monks practice abnegation in material aspects of human life.*
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marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
Pedantic
## Footnote
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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# Remember Diaper
Synonyms for PEDANTIC
1. Donnish
2. Inkhorn
3. Academic
4. Pedantic
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appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently for one's own use
Peculate
## Footnote
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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# Remember PEMDAS
List the synonyms of Peculate
1. Peculate
2. Embezzle
3. Malversate
4. Defalcate
5. Misappropriate
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to go back on your word or fail to keep a promise.
Renege
## Footnote
Not quite lying, reneging is more a sin of omission — failing to do what you said you would.
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High fashion designing and dressmaking. The design, manufacturing, and sale of designer clothing.
Couture
## Footnote
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.
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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
shenanigan
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Tricky actions to hide or get something.
Subterfuge
*She employed a very clever subterfuge to get the information she needed.*
## Footnote
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.
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a common synonym of Shenanigan
students engaging in youthful shenanigans on the last day of school
Chicanery
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Deviating from the general or common order or type
Anomalous
*the recent discovery of ice, and therefore water, on the moon was anomalous to all previous ideas that the moon was lifeless. *
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Generally incompetent and ineffectual
Feckless
*Feckless attempts to repair the plumbing.*
*This politician is feckless.*
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The appearance conveyed by a person's face
Countenance
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A common synonym of countenance
Visage
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# What does an obnoxious person have in common with sandpaper?
Sharply disagreeable
Abrasive
*An abrasive character*
## Footnote
If you find someone abrasive, he or she grinds away at your nerves.
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# Letter N
Injurious to physical or mental health
Noxious
1. Noxious chemical waste.
2. Noxious ideas
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Chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)
Vesicant
Vesicatory
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1. ( Of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves.
2. not easily irritated
Placid
1. a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay
2. not everyone shared his placid temperament
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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
Amulet
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Synonym of Amulet is
Talisman
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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.
Recreant
1. some provinces had proved recreant
2. this recreant knight
## Footnote
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
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# Michael apostle in the dessert, wearing coat with rats, recreation
List the synonyms of renegade
1. Apostate
2. Desserter
3. Turncoat
4. Ratter
5. Recreant
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To predict or reveal through divine inspiration
Vaticinate
## Footnote
When you vaticinate, you tell the future
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# Letter Z
Something that resembles an animal
Zoic
*The Zoic folklore of the plain Indians.
Making of Zoic hand shadows on the wall.*
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# Letter A
Someone who is careful, methodical and very consistent can be labelled as
Assiduous
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* Boisterous
* Aggresive
* Noisy
* Defiant
Obstreperous
## Footnote
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!"
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Post fasting meal in ramadan
Iftar
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Autumn harvest in India
Kharif
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The south indian exaclamation
Aiyo
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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
Faux hawk
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An expression of exuberance or enthusiasm typically associated with cowboys of southern US
Yeehaw
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A performance using gestures and body movements
Pantomime
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A polynesian rain dance performed by women
Hula
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# Letter D
To force someone to do something. To coerce
Dragoon
*the way your best friend dragooned you into volunteering for the prom committee.*
## Footnote
Long ago, dragoons were soldiers who rode horses into battle and were trained to fight either on foot or on horseback.
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The quickest speed at which music can be played
Prestisimo
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The second quickest speed at which music can be played
Presto
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A natural or human made arch that supports climbing plants
Bower
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# Letter U
In japanese cuisine a fresh water eel
Unagi
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The act of stealing goods that are in display in a store.
Loss of inventory due to theft or shoplifting
Shrinkage
*The shops shrinkage rate improved after they installed security cameras*
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(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
Libellous
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# LSD
Synonyms of Libellous
1. Libellous
2. Slanderous
3. Defamatory
4. Denigrating
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A pile of odds and ends or a random assortment of stuff.
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.
## Footnote
If your teacher said your paper was a farrago of thoughts, that's not good:
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Humbling a person in a mean base manner
Abase
## Footnote
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.
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# Letter V
Harmlessly stupid and truly meaningless
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.*
## Footnote
vacuous is a smart-sounding way to describe something dumb. If something is vacuous, it's like a vacuum — hollow, empty, devoid of substance.
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# Letter A
If you say something harshly bitter to someone it can leave a bitter tatse in your own mouth
Acerbic
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A verse in which the first letter in each line form a word or message
ACROSTIC
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Someone or something that serves as an inspiration
Inspo
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An instance of an internet user visiting a page on the website
Pageview
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Not having enough money to pay for necessities
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.*
## Footnote
impecunious doesn’t just mean having no money. It means that you almost never have any money.
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A cultural unit that is passed from one generation to another by non genetic means , as by imitation
## Footnote
a cultural unit is an idea, pattern or behaviour
Meme
memes are the cultural counterpart of genes
## Footnote
An example of a meme is the cultural tradition of women wearing skirts.
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An amusing image, text, or video that spreads rapidly through social media
Meme
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An emotional poem or song that memoralizes someone who has died
THRENODY
## Footnote
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.
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A literary device / a technique of writing about a work of visual art
Ekphrasis
## Footnote
When a writer includes a vivid description of a painting in her novel
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# Letter P
harmful and subtle
Pernicious
*The pernicious effects of watching TV too much*
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# Letter B
Full of spirited enthusiasm
Brio
## Footnote
Energy, vivacity and style are all elements of Brio
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The act of making an accusation
Preferment
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# mnemonic DUH, Letter A
Sharply
Disagreable
unpleasant
Harsh
Abrasive
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# Letter S
Use of tricks to deceive someone
Shenanigans
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The particular sleepy combination of stretching and yawning
Pandiculation
*In pandiculation the act of stretching is often slow*
## Footnote
Animals are prone to pandiculations too extending their paws in a stretch and yawing widely
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# Letter G
Bizarre and unconventional
Gonzo
*Your wacky friends gonzo style of dressing*
*Gonzo stories on the news*
## Footnote
Gonzo was the name of a character, Dr Gonza.
Gonza is also a writing style, Gonza journalism
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Name for a place or a group given by local people
Endonym
## Footnote
Locals refer to their city as Munchen, most english speakers call it Minuch
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Name for a place or a group given by people who dont live there
Exonym
## Footnote
The locals call their city Munchen, the english speakers call it Munich
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# Letter B
Somethings thats intricate and hard to understand
Byzantine
*Byzantine tax structure*
*Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship*
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# TTICK
List the synnonyms of Byzantine
1. **Tortuous** reasoning
2. Oh what a **tangled** web we weave
3. The plot was too**involved**
4. **Convoluted **legal codes
5. A **knotty**problem
