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
2
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An intern training in a professional kitchen to be a chef
A
Stagiaire
3
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Refuse to
1. Ratify
2. Recognise
3. Accept
4. Acknowledge
A
Repudiate
4
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A gathering of military personnel for duty
A
Muster
5
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A doctrine that Government derives its authority from the people
A
Popular Sovereignty
6
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One section of a lyric poem or a choral ode
A
Strophe
7
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On behalf of or involving only one party
A
Ex parte
8
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The scientific name that is same for both genus and species
A
Tautonym
9
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Letter D
- A situation that is suspicious or tricky
- A person who is skilled in lying and deceiving
A
Dodgy
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
A
vaticinate
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Letter D
A long impassioned speech
A
Declamation
13
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A formal word for eating
A
Mandiculate
Chew and masticate are the more common forms
14
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Letter D
Something unpleasant
A
Disagreable
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Letter w
Absurdly exaggerated with a humorous appeal
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Wacky
16
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Annoyingly persistent and relentless
A
Importunate
A cranky childs importunate demands for candy
17
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BIP
Synonyms of IMPORTUNATE
A
- Begging
- Beseeching
- Imploring
- Pleading
18
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Hair that is messy esp after tossing and turning in bed
A
Bedhead
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
20
Q
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Tahini
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
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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Letter R
Forced relocation of refugees to unsafe countries
A
Refoulement
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Letter R
Lavishly elegant and refined
A
Recherche
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Funds given to a party or a PAC rather than a candidate
Soft Money
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# Letter A
Necessarily true or logically certain
Apodictic
*“Slavery is wrong” is an apodictic statement.*
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# Letter I
To reject, to cancel, to stop
IXNAY
*Ixnay to corporate control*
*The group ixnayed the rest of the north american tour*
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A person who compiles a vocabulary
Vocabulist
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Synonyms of Vocabulist
1. Wordsmith
2. Linguist
3. Glossarist
4. Lexicologist
5. Philologist
6. Etymologist
7. phonetician
8. Phonologist
9. Polyglot
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Software, mobile applications and other technologies created to improve and automate traditional forms of finance
Fintech
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Animal born of a male Zebra and a female donkey
Zonkey
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Animal born of a female Zebra and a male donkey
Zedonk
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# Letter P
1. Extreme poverty
2. Extreme stinting frugality
Penury
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Extreme Stinginess
Parsimonious
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# Letter N
Another word for stingy, ungenerous and meager
Niggardly
*The company was being niggardly with raises*
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# Letter E
Issues dealing with divine judgement, the ultimate fate of mankind and the destiny of the soul
Eschatological
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Unhealthy obsession with excrement or overly fond of bathroom humour
Scatological
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Music that does not follow the rules of melody and is not in a particular key
Atonal music
39
# Letter S
Something that has lost all morality
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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In philosophy the idea that nothing in this universe makes any rational sense
Absurdism
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# Letter A
A false or a misleading charge meant to harm someones reputation
Aspersions
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# Letter f
To get something using devious methods
Finagle
## Footnote
To get a student discount at a bookstore pretending you are a student is to Finagle
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# Letter C
Yowl, shriek or a loud cry
Caterwaul
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# Letter B
Silly babbling speech
Blatherskite
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The sprinkling of water esp at religious ceremonies
Aspersions
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# Letter R
The act of catching a ball in American football
Reception
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# Letter E
A lyric poem having a long line followed by a short line
Epode
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A small sled designated to go very fast
Luge
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The third and final section of the ode, after the strophe and anti strophe
Epode
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# Letter g
A slight suggestion or a vague understanding
Glimmering
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# Letter E
Something that can be verified by observation or experience as opposed to pure theory and conjecture
Emperical
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Study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species
Comparative Anatomy
## Footnote
Aristotle
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# TBHC
Lacking originality
1. Trite
2. banal
3. Hackneyed
4. Cliched
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# Letter L
Of imposing height
Lofty
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# Letter C
A retail store that sells provisions and equipment
Commissary
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Cover with shroud
Enshroud
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# Letter H
Rowdy or boisterous play
Horseplay
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# Letter H
Name of an endearment, a nickname
Hypocorism
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# Letter p
Humorous play of words
Paronomasia
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# Letter T
Feeling easily irritated
Touchiness
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# Letter H
The practice of telling the future by using animal organs
Haruspicy
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# Letter H
A spicy North African chilli paste or sauce used in cooking
Harissa
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# Letter M
Give an explanation of something esp to a woman, in a condescending way
Mansplain
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Full of flavour
Sapid
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# Letter G
Eat fine food immodestly or excessively
Gormandize
## Footnote
a few bites os Sashimi or Foie Gras will make you a gourmet but eating them until you feel sick is Gormandizing
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# Letter S
Very thinly sliced raw fish
Sashimi
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# Letter F
A pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles
Foie Gras
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# Letter F
A conduit to carry of smoke
Flue
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# Letter A
Impervious to
1. Pleas
2. Persuasion
3. Requests
4. Reason
Adamantine
*The adamantine will of the marathon runner*
*Anything adamantine is unbreakable and invulnerable*
## Footnote
Adamantine is often used in a figurative way
70
# Letter J
A hard red semi precious stone
Jasper
## Footnote
Can also be yellow green or brown
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# Letter P
Assigning numbers to sheets in a book or manuscript
Paginate
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# Letter C
1. Consent to
2. Give permission
Countenance
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# Letter C
1. Raise trivial objections
2. 2. Find fault without good reason
Cavil
*People can have a caviling nature*
## Footnote
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
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# Remember PCT
Synonyms of Rescind
1. Repeal
2. Recall
3. Retract
4. Revoke
5. Reverse
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# Letter F
To treat with
1. Scorn
2. Disdain
3. Contempt
Flout
*You can flout convention and you can flout authority*
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# Letter B
1. To grow
2. To flourish
3. To develop
4. To proliferate
Burgeon
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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
Subvert
## Footnote
Subversive forces
78
# Letter S
1. To verify
2. To confirm
3. To establish by proof
Substantiate
*Scientists collect a lot of data to substantiate their hypothesis*
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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
Bromide
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# Lettr A
A formal ecclesiastical curse followed by an excommunication
Anathema
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# Letter C
any of several large reindeers native to northern north America
Caribou
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# Letter A
1. Detested person or thing
2. Something that inspires dislike
3. To curse
Anathema
*He is an anathema to me*
*Racial hatred was anathema to her*
He anathemized them as bloody scrounges
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# Letter c
A rhetorical technique that involves reversal of terms
Chiasmus
*Its good to be lucky but its lucky to be good*
84
# Letter c
A joyful partly muffled laugh
Chortle
## Footnote
combination of chuckle and snort
85
# Letter C
1. A person who constructs crosswords
2. An enthusiast of word games esp crosswords
Cruciverbalist
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# Letter D
1. Marked by a definite lack of plan or purpose
2. Jumping from one thing to another
Desultory
*Desultory thoughts*
*Desultory conversations charecteristic of cocktail parties*
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# 1. Letter A
1. To a sickening or excessive degree
## Footnote
something that goes on and on and is done over and over again to a sickening degree
Ad nauseam
*A topic that has been discussed and analysed Ad Nauseam*
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# Letter A
Having to do with sexual love
Amatory
*Peter hasnt stopped sulking after Kavita spurned his amatory advances at the office christmas party*
89
# Letter A
A story told to communicate a deeper meaning or a hidden theme
Allegory
*Many of the Grimm brothers fairy tales are clear allegories of the consequences of childrens rotten behaviour*
90
# Letter B
Milk thickened with butter and flour roux
Bechamel
91
# Letter S
Excessive sappiness and sentimentality in art or music
Schmaltz
*Love scenes in movies are often guilty of Schmaltz*
## Footnote
a movie soundtract thats dripping of emotion is full of Schmaltz
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# Letter R
A mixture of fat and flour that is heated and used as a basis for sauce
Roux
93
# Letter D
of or for the common people
Demotic
## Footnote
A demotic expression or saying is casual, colloquial and used by the masses
94
A degenerate neutron star that emits polarised radiation
Pulsar
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# Letter S
1. A very long word
2. Someone or something that overuses long words
Sesquipedalian
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# Letter S
A projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere
Spitball
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# Letter M
Interpret in a wrong way
Misconstrue
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# Letter M
An espresso topped with a thin layer of milk foam
Macchiato
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# Letter D
One or two masted sailing vessel with triangular sails
Dhow
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# Letter V
Easily excused or forgiven
Venial
