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Vocab 06 Flashcards

1
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Letter L

Something or someone that serves as a model or guide

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Lodestar

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Letter F

Someone who acts, speaks and writes in an amusing way

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Farceur

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Letter A

An ambitious social climber or status seeker

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Arriviste

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Letter R

Return of something after a period of abatement

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Recrudescence
I dont think it is a reinfection. I think it is a recrudescence of the original infection

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5
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Letter A

The process of adapting to a different culture

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Acculturation
Just because sushi makes me queasy dosent mean that i am opposed to acuulturation

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6
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Letter A

Inspiration that comes from divine origin

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Afflatus
The Nobel prize winning novelist attributed her abilities to AFFLATUS rather than her own abilities

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7
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When you add steamed milk to espresso you get

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  1. Latte
  2. Capuccino
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8
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Letter E

Strong black coffee brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans

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Espresso

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Letter B

An area of knowledge where a person or institution has control or expertise

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Bailiwick
After the war the middle east remained his Bailiwick

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Letter B

Beset with troubles or problems

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Beleagured
The BELEAGURED rider could do no better than cling to the horses neck for dear life.

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11
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Letter R

  1. Speaking or writing thats intended to persuade
  2. Using language effectively
  3. Loud and confused empty talk
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Rhetoric

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Letter B

A wild celebration party at which party goers are loud and out of control often fueled by excessive alcohol consumption

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Bacchanal

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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
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Bromide

Potassium bromide a white crystalline solid or powder used as sedative, photographic emulsion

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14
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Letter A

Graceful old world ruminants with long legs and horns directed upward and backward

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Antelope

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15
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List seven animals in the antelope species

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  1. Gazzelles
  2. Gerenuks
  3. Addax
  4. Springbok
  5. Dik Diks
  6. Impalas
  7. Blackbuck
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16
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Letter F

When you see your mom come back from the salon with bright green spiky hair and your jaw drops to the floor in total shock, You are preety much speechless

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Flabbergasted

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17
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Letter G

Utterly astounded

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Gobsmacked

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Letter C

Something is going wrong, awkwardly or in the wrong direction

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Catawampus
Everythinh has gone catawampus with me this week.

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19
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Letter E

Ceremonial elegance and splendour

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Eclat

When you do something with eclat, you do it with great style or an amazing effect. A skilled magician performs all of her tricks with eclat.

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Letter B

  1. A mass of precious metal
  2. Gold or silver in bars or ingots
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Bullion

21
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Letter B

A clear broth made by simmering meat, fish or vegetables in water with herbs
A clear seasoned broth

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Boullion

22
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Letter P

Wig is the shortened version of the word

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Periwig

23
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Letter P

  1. A synonym of Periwig is
  2. a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries
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Peruke

24
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Letter C

A seller for provisions and supplies esp for ships

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Chandler

25
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Letter G

In Elizabethan theatre, a play goer in the standing section

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Groundling

26
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Letter R

Deny someone a loan based on where they live

A

Redline

27
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Letter B

The act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent

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Bowdlerization

28
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Letter E

A synonym of Bowdlerization

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Expurgation

29
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Letter C

Maker of candles and soaps and oils and paints

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Chandler

30
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Letter B

Something that is destructive or disastrous

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Baneful
The effects of wildfires can be baneful.

31
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Letter C

A law system based on priory decission by Judges

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Common Law

32
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Letter J

A wandering medieval entertainer

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Jongleur

33
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Two synonyms of Jongleur

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  1. Troubadour
  2. Minstrel
34
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Letter R

A person who is successful in bringing business at work

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Rainmaker

35
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Letter W

  1. A childrens toy house
  2. A childrens playhouse large enough for one or more persons to enter
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Wendy House

36
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Letter C

Poop eating

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Coprophagus

37
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The original xylophones were made of wood. The current ones are made of ?

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Fibreglass

38
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What is the etymology of the word Xenon

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Xenos meaning strange

39
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Etymology of the word Xylophone

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  1. Xylos..wood
40
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Letter X

Wood eating

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Xylophagous

41
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Name three Xylophagous animals

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  1. Deer
  2. Beaver
  3. Termites
42
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What dis Wilhelm Rontgen name the X ray as

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X - Strahlen

43
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Letter X

A dry photocopying technique

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Xerography

44
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Letter Z

A stringed instrument having 30 to 40 strings over a shallow horizontal sound board and played with a pick and fingers

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Zither

45
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Letter z

Spooky things that wants to make you hide with outstretched hands and mummified bodies

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Zombies

46
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What creatures fall under the broad category of Phantoms

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  1. Zombies
  2. Ghosts
  3. Spirits
  4. Spooks
47
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