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Vocab 05 Flashcards

1
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a gathering where folk music is performed with the audience joining in

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Hootenanny

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2
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An intern training in a professional kitchen to be a chef

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Stagiaire

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3
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Refuse to
1. Ratify
2. Recognise
3. Accept
4. Acknowledge

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Repudiate

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4
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A gathering of military personnel for duty

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Muster

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5
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A doctrine that Government derives its authority from the people

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Popular Sovereignty

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One section of a lyric poem or a choral ode

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Strophe

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On behalf of or involving only one party

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Ex parte

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The scientific name that is same for both genus and species

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Tautonym

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Letter D

  1. A situation that is suspicious or tricky
  2. A person who is skilled in lying and deceiving
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Dodgy

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10
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Using more than one form of transportation esp to ship goods from one place to another

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Intermodal

usually describes overseas shipping industry.

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Letter V

To tell the future

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vaticinate

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Letter D

A long impassioned speech

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Declamation

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13
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A formal word for eating

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Mandiculate

Chew and masticate are the more common forms

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14
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Letter D

Something unpleasant

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Disagreable

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15
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Letter w

Absurdly exaggerated with a humorous appeal

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Wacky

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16
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Annoyingly persistent and relentless

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Importunate
A cranky childs importunate demands for candy

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BIP

Synonyms of IMPORTUNATE

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  1. Begging
  2. Beseeching
  3. Imploring
  4. Pleading
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18
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Hair that is messy esp after tossing and turning in bed

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Bedhead

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19
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A short written statement you send to a media outlet or a news paper to spread the word about an event or news item

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Press release

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20
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Thick middle eastern paste made from ground sesame
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Tahini

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21
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Letter h

A word that describes a broad category that includes other words

Primates include chimpanzees and humans

A

Hypernym

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22
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Feeling of intense righteous anger

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Dudgeon

it’s usually preceded by “in high.” So your little cousin who’s stomping out of the room in fury because he didn’t get candy before dinner? He’s in high dudgeon.

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23
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Letter R

Forced relocation of refugees to unsafe countries

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Refoulement

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24
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Letter R

Lavishly elegant and refined

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Recherche

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25
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Funds given to a party or a PAC rather than a candidate

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Soft Money

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26
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Letter A

Necessarily true or logically certain

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Apodictic
“Slavery is wrong” is an apodictic statement.

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27
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Letter I

To reject, to cancel, to stop

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IXNAY
Ixnay to corporate control
The group ixnayed the rest of the north american tour

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28
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A person who compiles a vocabulary

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Vocabulist

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Synonyms of Vocabulist

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  1. Wordsmith
  2. Linguist
  3. Glossarist
  4. Lexicologist
  5. Philologist
  6. Etymologist
  7. phonetician
  8. Phonologist
  9. Polyglot
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30
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Software, mobile applications and other technologies created to improve and automate traditional forms of finance

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Fintech

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31
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Animal born of a male Zebra and a female donkey

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Zonkey

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32
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Animal born of a female Zebra and a male donkey

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Zedonk

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33
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Letter P

  1. Extreme poverty
  2. Extreme stinting frugality
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Penury

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34
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Extreme Stinginess

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Parsimonious

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35
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Letter N

Another word for stingy, ungenerous and meager

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Niggardly
The company was being niggardly with raises

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36
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Letter E

Issues dealing with divine judgement, the ultimate fate of mankind and the destiny of the soul

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Eschatological

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37
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Unhealthy obsession with excrement or overly fond of bathroom humour

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Scatological

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38
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Music that does not follow the rules of melody and is not in a particular key

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Atonal music

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39
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Letter S

Something that has lost all morality

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Seamy
Your mother wouldnt approve of you going to a seamy video arcade especially if you went with a group of seamy people.

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40
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In philosophy the idea that nothing in this universe makes any rational sense

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Absurdism

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41
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Letter A

A false or a misleading charge meant to harm someones reputation

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Aspersions

42
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Letter f

To get something using devious methods

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Finagle

To get a student discount at a bookstore pretending you are a student is to Finagle

43
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Letter C

Yowl, shriek or a loud cry

A

Caterwaul

44
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Letter B

Silly babbling speech

A

Blatherskite

45
Q

The sprinkling of water esp at religious ceremonies

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Aspersions

46
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Letter R

The act of catching a ball in American football

A

Reception

47
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Letter E

A lyric poem having a long line followed by a short line

A

Epode

48
Q

A small sled designated to go very fast

A

Luge

49
Q

The third and final section of the ode, after the strophe and anti strophe

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Epode

50
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Letter g

A slight suggestion or a vague understanding

A

Glimmering

51
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Letter E

Something that can be verified by observation or experience as opposed to pure theory and conjecture

A

Emperical

52
Q

Study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species

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Comparative Anatomy

Aristotle

53
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TBHC

Lacking originality

A
  1. Trite
  2. banal
  3. Hackneyed
  4. Cliched
54
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Letter L

Of imposing height

A

Lofty

55
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Letter C

A retail store that sells provisions and equipment

A

Commissary

56
Q

Cover with shroud

A

Enshroud

57
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Letter H

Rowdy or boisterous play

A

Horseplay

58
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Letter H

Name of an endearment, a nickname

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Hypocorism

59
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Letter p

Humorous play of words

A

Paronomasia

60
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Letter T

Feeling easily irritated

A

Touchiness

61
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Letter H

The practice of telling the future by using animal organs

A

Haruspicy

62
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Letter H

A spicy North African chilli paste or sauce used in cooking

A

Harissa

63
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Letter M

Give an explanation of something esp to a woman, in a condescending way

A

Mansplain

64
Q

Full of flavour

A

Sapid

65
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Letter G

Eat fine food immodestly or excessively

A

Gormandize

a few bites os Sashimi or Foie Gras will make you a gourmet but eating them until you feel sick is Gormandizing

66
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Letter S

Very thinly sliced raw fish

A

Sashimi

67
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Letter F

A pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles

A

Foie Gras

68
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Letter F

A conduit to carry of smoke

A

Flue

69
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Letter A

Impervious to
1. Pleas
2. Persuasion
3. Requests
4. Reason

A

Adamantine
The adamantine will of the marathon runner
Anything adamantine is unbreakable and invulnerable

Adamantine is often used in a figurative way

70
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Letter J

A hard red semi precious stone

A

Jasper

Can also be yellow green or brown

71
Q

Letter P

Assigning numbers to sheets in a book or manuscript

A

Paginate

72
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Letter C

  1. Consent to
  2. Give permission
A

Countenance

73
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Letter C

  1. Raise trivial objections
    1. Find fault without good reason
A

Cavil
People can have a caviling nature

Cavil is not a word that comes up all that often. You can replace it with the more commonly used word quibble and still have the same meaning. If you cavil over a restaurant bill, you argue about the minute, unimportant details of who owes what

74
Q

Remember PCT

Synonyms of Rescind

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  1. Repeal
  2. Recall
  3. Retract
  4. Revoke
  5. Reverse
75
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Letter F

To treat with
1. Scorn
2. Disdain
3. Contempt

A

Flout
You can flout convention and you can flout authority

76
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Letter B

  1. To grow
  2. To flourish
  3. To develop
  4. To proliferate
A

Burgeon

77
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Letter S

To work with the express notion of tearing down or corrupting a system, institution or philosophy that has long served a foundation of peoples lives

A

Subvert

Subversive forces

78
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Letter S

  1. To verify
  2. To confirm
  3. To establish by proof
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Substantiate
Scientists collect a lot of data to substantiate their hypothesis

79
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Letter B

  1. A common saying or a proverb that is obvious and not helpful
  2. A tiresome person a bore
A

Bromide

80
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Lettr A

A formal ecclesiastical curse followed by an excommunication

A

Anathema

81
Q

Letter C

any of several large reindeers native to northern north America

A

Caribou

82
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Letter A

  1. Detested person or thing
  2. Something that inspires dislike
  3. To curse
A

Anathema
He is an anathema to me
Racial hatred was anathema to her
He anathemized them as bloody scrounges

83
Q

Letter c

A rhetorical technique that involves reversal of terms

A

Chiasmus
Its good to be lucky but its lucky to be good

84
Q

Letter c

A joyful partly muffled laugh

A

Chortle

combination of chuckle and snort

85
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Letter C

  1. A person who constructs crosswords
  2. An enthusiast of word games esp crosswords
A

Cruciverbalist

86
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Letter D

  1. Marked by a definite lack of plan or purpose
  2. Jumping from one thing to another
A

Desultory
Desultory thoughts
Desultory conversations charecteristic of cocktail parties

87
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1. Letter A

  1. To a sickening or excessive degree

something that goes on and on and is done over and over again to a sickening degree

A

Ad nauseam
A topic that has been discussed and analysed Ad Nauseam

88
Q

Letter A

Having to do with sexual love

A

Amatory
Peter hasnt stopped sulking after Kavita spurned his amatory advances at the office christmas party

89
Q

Letter A

A story told to communicate a deeper meaning or a hidden theme

A

Allegory
Many of the Grimm brothers fairy tales are clear allegories of the consequences of childrens rotten behaviour

90
Q

Letter B

Milk thickened with butter and flour roux

A

Bechamel

91
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Letter S

Excessive sappiness and sentimentality in art or music

A

Schmaltz
Love scenes in movies are often guilty of Schmaltz

a movie soundtract thats dripping of emotion is full of Schmaltz

92
Q

Letter R

A mixture of fat and flour that is heated and used as a basis for sauce

A

Roux

93
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Letter D

of or for the common people

A

Demotic

A demotic expression or saying is casual, colloquial and used by the masses

94
Q

A degenerate neutron star that emits polarised radiation

A

Pulsar

95
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Letter S

  1. A very long word
  2. Someone or something that overuses long words
A

Sesquipedalian

96
Q

Letter S

A projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere

A

Spitball

97
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Letter M

Interpret in a wrong way

A

Misconstrue

98
Q

Letter M

An espresso topped with a thin layer of milk foam

A

Macchiato

99
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Letter D

One or two masted sailing vessel with triangular sails

A

Dhow

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Letter V

Easily excused or forgiven

A

Venial

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