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Vocab 04 Flashcards

1
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A pathological inability to stop talking

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Logorrhoea

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Anything that follows a formula or pattern in a mechanical way.
Conventional.
This word usually conveys a lack of imagination

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Formulaic
A formulaic TV show is predictable and probably similar to lots of other shows.
*A formulaic speech follows a pattern that’s been used many times before. *

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

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Meme

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Coined by American essayist Logan Pearsall Smith

Someone who shares a strong interest in a topic esp words and word play

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Milver

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Similar to or equivalent in some respects but otherwise dissimailar

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Analogous

Analogous is a term used in biology to refer to body parts that have a similar function but differ in structure, such as the wings of a bird and the wings of an airplane

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The countries of the west partcularly Europe and Americas

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Occident

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An amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religious cultures or schools of thought

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Syncretism
*“a syncretism of material and immaterial theories”
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A synonym of Analogous

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Comparable

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a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table

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Butler

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Synonym of Butler

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Pantryman

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A personal attendant to his employer, who might run errands, clean, cook, drive, or perform other tasks as needed

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Valet

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Letter M

the most helpful assistant

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Man Friday

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  1. Powerful members of society
  2. People who rank just below the nobility
  3. The important people in any field
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Gentry

The gentry of rock ‘n’ roll would include icons like Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. The gentry of Hollywood are the stars everyone recognizes, the faces you constantly see on magazine covers, starring in movies, and making TV appearances. The gentry of New York society are the people who make major donations to art museums and hospitals and are A-list invitees to all the big fundraisers and cultural events.

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The synonym of Gentry

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Aristocracy
Nobility

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1.a member of the English gentry ranking below a knight
2.a candidate for knighthood serving as shield bearer and attendant to a knight

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Esquire

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Letter S

Someone who takes care of the grounds or animals of a particular place

If your parents are always traveling and you have to take care of your six younger siblings, you probably feel like the ——- of the house.

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Steward
Anyone who takes care of places or people is a steward.

You can be a steward of artifacts from an architectural dig. You can also be elected to be the steward of your co-workers retirement fund. Either way, someone’s trusting you with their stuff.

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The chief steward or butler of a great household

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Major - Domo
Seneschal

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A show of exceptional talent or daring often in the art.
Showcasing dazzling skill and bold confidence.

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Bravura
in a final bravura the ballerina appeared to be floating in water
the music ends with a display of bravura

When a dancer spins flawlessly through an incredibly challenging routine, their performance is pure bravura

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Moving and bending with ease

Synonyms of Svelte

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  1. Lissom
  2. Lissome
  3. Lithe
  4. Lithesome
  5. Supple
  6. Sylphlike
  7. Graceful
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A cooperative behaviour or effort

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Concerted

If a group of people do anything together from singing annoying songs to throwing library books. They are acting in a concerted manner

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The three synonyms of concerted are

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  1. Conjunct. the conjunct influence of fire and strong wind. Conjunct influence.Conjunct ideas
  2. Conjunctive.the conjunctive focus of political opposition
  3. cooperative
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The difficult synonyms of Morose are

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  1. Dolorous
  2. Lugubrious
  3. Saturnine
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Letter D

Someone showing great sadness. Mournful and lachrymose.

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Dolorous
Music written in a minor key can have a dolorous effect

Dolorous shares the same root with the word, condolence, an expression of sympathy with someone’s sadness. Both of these words come from the Latin word for grief, dolor, which in current Spanish happens to mean pain.

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Extremely gloomy. Anything that makes you sad, gloomy, or mournful can be

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Lugubrious
Funerals are lugubrious

I was feeling great when I got to the concert, but the lugubrious music left me in a terrible mood.

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25
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Having a bitter disposition and a sour outlook on life

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Saturnine
the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips…twisted with disdain

Medieval alchemists ascribed to the planet Saturn a gloomy and slow character. When people are called saturnine, it means they are like the planet — gloomy, mean, scowling. Not exactly the life of the party.

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Letter O

Apparent, appearing to be true

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Ostensible
An ostensible motive is not a real motive
An ostensible advantage is not a real advantage

It is often used in oppsition to real and actual

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27
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The act of entering and exiting

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Ingress
Egress

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Phrase

To have or do something to the fullest extent possible is to

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Go the full nine yards

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29
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Luxury cabins on ships

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Staterooms

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Letter S

People who deck themselves up and try to grab attention by their behaviour

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Showboating

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31
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A domesticated pig

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HOG

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32
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An additional vocal part above the main melody

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Descant

Through the years, the word has been used for the soprano in a group of singers or the highest-pitched line in any song.

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Letter S

leaving nothing behind that an enemy might have use for — even if that means burning it all down.

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Scorched earth policy

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Letter D

talk on and on in a dull way

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Descant

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A narrow, pointed sliver that breaks off something larger

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Splinter

We often use the word splinter to refer to tiny shards of wood that lodge under the skin, but a sliver of any hard material — stone, glass, bone, wood, metal — can be called a splinter

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36
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If you’re paid based on each task you accomplish rather than the hours you labor

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Piecework
A farmworker paid in piecework might earn a dollar for each pound of blueberries they pick.

A seamstress who gets paid for each pair of pants that she hems is doing piecework. And if your neighbor pays you five cents for each dandelion you pull out of their lawn, you also do piecework.

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Letter A

A gain or increase in something over time.
A sum of money, or benefit of some kind, that gets bigger over time.

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Accrual

Strictly speaking, an accrual doesn’t have to be financial. Most religions believe you can obtain a spiritual accrual by doing good deeds on earth

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38
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Without guile, open and honest.
Sincerely simple, free from artificiality

Lacking in art, knowledge and skill

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Artless

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39
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  1. To call before a court to answer an indictment
  2. To accuse of a wrong doing or an inadequacy
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Arraign
He is expected to be arraigned in court this friday

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40
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A deceptive maneuvre esp to avoid capture

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Artifice
The whole story was just an artifice to win our sympathy
He spoke without artifice or pretense

If a politician pretends to be angry as a way of rousing the anger of the voters and getting more votes, he’s guilty of artifice — a subtle and crafty trick.

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41
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A male goose

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Gander

42
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Phrase

Take a look by craning ones neck like a Goose

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Take a Gander
The goose took a Gander at the flower

43
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a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music

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Ecdysiast

44
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A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

A legal, authoritative decision that has absolute sanction.

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Fiat

45
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Letter I

Someone who gives orders in a way that shows they feel superior or more important than other people

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Imperious
Imperious President impervious to public opinion and ruling the country by fiat

46
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Letter I

One that can’t be penetrated

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Impervious
Imperious President impervious to public opinion and ruling the country by fiat

Most of the sentences you’ll run across using impervious will be followed by the word “to” and a noun. Things are often described as being impervious to physical assaults like heat, water, bullets, weather, and attack, but just as frequently to less tangible things, like reason, criticism, pain, and pressure.

47
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DIP

Synonyms of Sagacious

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  1. Discerning
  2. Insightful
  3. Perspicacious
48
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A pattern, model or a standard

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Paradigm
Real science is the paradigm of true knowledge
The freudian paradigm of psychoanalysis

49
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Letter G

A slang for a silly man or a simpleton

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Gander

50
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Synonyms for hinterland

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  1. Boonies
  2. Sticks
  3. Boondocks
51
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Someone that has been soundly rejected by the community

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Pariah

52
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Something that is mentioned before

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Aforementioned

53
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Letter E

Emotional calmness and balance in times of stress

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Equanimity

54
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Letter A

Something that is old fashioned and a little out of time

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Anachronistic
The novel is full of anachronisms
Suspenders are anachronistic
He is an old fashioned politician seen by many of his colleagues as an anachronism

55
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An area far away from a city or town or even civilization

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Hinterland

use hinterland when you want to make fun of an areas backwardness or when you want to celebrate its natural beauty

56
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The section of a panel between a base and a surbase

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Dado

57
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To shine with an abundance of light or radiant splendour

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Effulgence is brightness taken to the extreme. You may be dazzled by it, stunned by it, or even overcome by it. Usually used to refer to the sun or some other mega-star, effulgence can also be used more figuratively. If you’re met with the mega-watt effulgence of the most beautiful movie star, take a moment to marvel at the rays of light shooting from her perfect smile. Then snap out of it and ask for an autograph.

58
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Another word for
1. Relevant
2. Pertinent
3. Akin

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Germane

59
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Letter I

A word for
1. Annoying
2. Pesky

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Irksome

60
Q

A rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it

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Dado

61
Q

In the past an educational institution where teachers learned to teach.

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Normal school

62
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A verb that means Catch a sight of

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Descry

Usually you descry something after observing carefully for a while.If you spot something, you descry it. When you spy it, you descry it.

63
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It doesn’t seem possible, it’s hard to imagine, or it can’t be true.

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Inconceivable

When an idea or event is inconceivable, it’s so outlandish, amazing, or horrible that it’s hard to believe

64
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That sometimes sticky or greasy salve you put on cuts or rashes is also called an

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Unguent
Some were even symbolically incorporated into religious ceremonies.

65
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Letter P

promotion in rank, office, or position.

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Preferment

66
Q

A small sled that’s designed to go very fast. This is the type of sled you would ride in the Olympics, not in your neighborhood park.

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Luge

67
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Letter C

A verb meaning to tolerate or approve.

A

Countenance

If someone does something offensive, tell them, “I’m afraid I can’t countenance that.”

68
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If you turn your head to look at someone

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Rubbernecker

Someone who turns his head to look at a car accident while driving slowly

69
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Letter J

Characterised by joking or good humour

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Jocose
Everyone loves Bob because of his jocose nature

70
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Letter Q

Something that ends or settles a situation

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Quietus
The quietus of the argument arrived when Peter made a point that paul could not refute

71
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Letter P

A grotesque or a absurdly exaggerated representation.
Think political cartoon

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Pasquinade

72
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  1. Courtesy
  2. Mutual civility
  3. Friendly social atmosphere
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Comity
Group activities promoting comity
Bipartisan comity in the Senate.

73
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Letter F

Easily breakable

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Frangible
The frangible vase did not survive the cross country move.

74
Q

Bullets designed to disintegrate into tiny particles upon impact

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Frangible bullets

75
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Name two Venetian Renaissance artists

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  1. Titian
  2. Tintoretto
76
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Name two Baroque painters

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  1. Rembrandt
  2. Rubens
77
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Letter K

  1. To show obsequious deference
  2. To show respect
  3. Servility
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Kowtow
He kowtows to the boss.

78
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Letter I

  1. Thick application of pigment to the canvas or panel in a painting.
  2. Paint that has been laid thick on a canvas
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Impasto

79
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The most famous Impasto painting

A
Starry Night
80
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Figurative use of the word Frangible

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Frangible emotions

81
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A beginner; somenoe who is just learning the rudiments of a task, job or a skill

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Abecedarian
Paul is an expert in Sea Kayak but when it comes to snow skiing he is an abecedarian.

82
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Letter A

To confuse.
To mix up

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Addle
My addled brain could not make any sense of the riddle.

83
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Letter A

To cite as evidence

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Adduce
The murder victims blood stained clothes were collected as adduce to further the investigation

84
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  1. To put in motion
  2. To activate
  3. To motivate
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Actuate
Malice might actuate a crime
The lever will actuate a pump
A decision actuated by greed.

85
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  1. an increase by natural growth or addition
  2. (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment.
  3. (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
  4. (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
  5. (law) an increase in a beneficiary’s share in an estate
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ACCRETION
Acrretions of grime
he scraped away the accretions of paint

86
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The cutting off or removal of something, like an unsightly mole on the chin.

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Abscission

Layoffs at work are the abscission of workers

87
Q

Letter A. use instead of unsuccesful

Failing to accomplish an intended result

A

Abortive

If you tried like crazy to run a marathon but couldn’t finish, your efforts were abortive

88
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Letter A

  1. To outline something
  2. To foreshadow
A

Adumbrate
The social unrest adumbrated the French Revolution

89
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Letter A

Passive acceptance

A

Acquiescence

90
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Letter A

To renounce under oath

A

Abjure

91
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Letter A

To be plentiful, overflow with

A

Abound

92
Q

A remote and culturally backard area

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backwoods

93
Q

A person who lives in and is a native of the backwoods

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Backwoodsman

94
Q

A processed piece of metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling

A

INGOT

95
Q

An animal that is a Psammophile

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Kangaroo rat
96
Q

Archaebacteria requiring salt rich environment for growth

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Halophile

97
Q

A romantic daredevil

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Swashbuckler

98
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  1. In classical mythology a serpent ( lizard or Dragon) able to kill with breath or glance is
  2. A small crested arboreal lizard
A

Basilisk

99
Q

A creature of teutonic mythology usually represeneted as breathing fire and having a reptilian body

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Firedrake

100
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A gifted story teller

A

Raconteur

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