Vocab 08 Flashcards
1
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Letter P
A speech of violent denunciation
A
Philippic
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Letter I
Kill as a sacrifice esp by fire
A
Immolate
3
Q
Letter H
Synonym of Bunkum
A
Hogwash
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Q
Letter K
A person who leads the chappel choir or an orchestra
A
Kappelmeister
Conductor of a musical group
5
Q
Letter M
Everything that exists everywhere
A
Macrocosm
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Q
Letter C
Brass musical instrument shorter and wider than a trumpet
A
Cornet
7
Q
Letter U
Steady in adherence to values or principles
A
Undeviating
8
Q
Letter E
Misheard or a misinterpreted word
A
Eggcorn
9
Q
Letter K
Stop from developing or happening
A
Kibosh
usually used as “ put the kibosh on “
10
Q
Letter F
Make up something artificial or untrue: To lie
A
Fabulate
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Q
Letter M
Impose a fine on
To fine someone or the money you collect as a result of the fine
A
Mulct
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Q
Letter N
The event of being born or coming into existence
A
Nascence
The nascence of a business idea is very exciting for an entrepreneur
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Q
Letter P
Overly conceited or arrogant
FUSSY
A
Persnickety
14
Q
letter p
Someone who has attended an expensive private school or ivy league college
A
Preppy
15
Q
Letter c
An official report usually sent in a haste
A
Communique
16
Q
Letter B
A long thin fluffy scarf of feather or fur
A
Boa
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Q
Letter C
Blunt and ill tempered
A
Crusty
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Q
Letter D
Moving a herd of animals over land
A
Drive
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Q
Letter C
Highly complex or intricate
A
Convoluted
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Q
Letter D
In a state of inactivity or disuse
A
Desuetude
21
Q
Letter N
White colour of the snow
A
Niveous
Niveous landscape outside your window on a frosty morning in january
22
Q
Letter O
Expressing strong diapproval
A
Objurgating
23
Q
Letter L
Discuss in a schorlarly way
A
Lucubrate
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Letter P
One who tries to convert someone to another faith or belief
A
Proselytizer
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# Letter H
Stae fish of hawaii
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa
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# Letter I
Marked by blithe unconcern
Insouciant
*Runway models are great at looking insouciant*
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# Letter I
One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional ideas or institutions
Iconoclast
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# Letter G
Repetitive nonmeaningful speech (especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervor) or in Schizophrenia
Glossolalia
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# Letter G
pleasant, cozy, or full of good cheer
Gemutlich
## Footnote
Think of a warm, cozy living room with a blanket on the couch or a dinner party with good friends
30
# Letter D
Australian Aborigine musical instrument that looks like a long, wooden pipe and makes a droning, hypnotic sound.
Didgeridoo
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# Letter D
trash or debris.
Detritus
## Footnote
There aren't many things more depressing than walking on a beautiful beach and discovering a stretch of it that's covered in detritus.
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# Letter E
A person with a refined tatse esp in food or wine
Epicure
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# Letter E
A person devoted to sensuous pleasure
Epicure
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# Letter E
inferior substitute or imitation
Ersatz
## Footnote
Compared with regular Coke, Diet Coke may be considered an ersatz beverage because of its artificial sweeteners.
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# Letter D
A fabric with a reversible pattern woven into it.
Damask
## Footnote
The word damask comes from Damascus, the Syrian city where this kind of fabric was originally made — it literally means "cloth from Damascus."
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# Letter C
A man who is not gentlemanly or honorable, especially toward a woman
Cad
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# Letter B
A synonym of Cad
Blackguard
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# Letter T
A felt cap for a man
Tarboosh
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# Letter D
Wickedness
Moral perversion
Depravity
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# TV BID
Synonyms of Depravity
1. Turpitude
2. Vileness
3. Baseness
4. Inequity
5. Deviancy
6. Degeneracy
7. Debauchery
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# VIRUS P
Antonyms of Depravity
1. Virtue
2. Integrity
3. Impeccability
4. Rectitude
5. Uprightness
6. Scrupulousness
7. Probity
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What does the prefic De stand for
Thoroughly or completely
44
# Letter D
To strip completely or make bare
Denude
45
# Letter D
To rob, plunder, pillage
Despoil
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# Letter D
To melt away complelety, to dissolve
Deliquesce
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# Letter P
Speaking too boldly
Venturing beyond the limits of proper behaviour
Presumptuous
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# O BIAS
Synonyms of Presumptuous
1. Overweening
2. Brazen
3. Impudent
4. Impertinent
5. Impervious
6. Insolent
7. Arrogant
8. Shameless
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# Letter G
Showy and grand in an exaggerated, artificial way
Grandiose
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# HOT HOG HOP HOB
Synonyms of Grandiose
1. Highflown
2. Ostentatious
3. Turgid
4. Grandiloquent
5. Bombastic
6. Pretentious
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# Letter s
Like a slave, slavish, submissive, obedient
Servile
52
# GF to SO
Synonyms of Servile
1. Groveling
2. Fawning
3. Toadying
4. Truckling
5. Sycophantic
6. Obsequious
53
Name this bed
Trundle bed
54
# letter d
To spread widely
disseminate
55
Synonyms of Disseminate
Broadcast
Promulgate
Disperse
56
Are the words Eclectic and Diverse synonymous
NO
1. Diverse means variety while eclectic means an interesting variety
2. Eclectic is ofeten used when the mix is chosen by careful selection rather than randomly
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# Letter M
A common plant known for its ability to support itself by twinning around anything its vigorous tendrils can grasp
Morning Glory
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# Letter v
Extremely hungry and having a large appetite
Voracious
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Synonyms of Voracious in the literal sense
1. Famished
2. Gluttonous
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# RIRE
Synonyms of Voracious in the real and figurative sense
1. Rapacious
2. Insatiable
3. Ravenous
4. Edacious
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# Letter T
Thick sticky sweet liquid
Treacle
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# Letter H
The bodily fluids were once called
Humours
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Foods steamed in hot liquid
Stew
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Stew in English originally described
Public bath house or a hot tub
65
List 8 words derived from AKME meaning point
1. Acne
2. Acme
3. Acute
4. Acid
5. Acerbic
6. Acacia
7. Acropolis
8. Acronym
66
# Letter I
In the original or natural place or site.
In Situ
## Footnote
The literal Latin translation of in situ is "in its original place or position," Archaeologists often use the term in situ when they're talking about finding artifacts that haven't been moved from their original sites, and in anatomy it means normal, healthy body parts.
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# Letter R
Synonym of Revanche
Retaliation
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# Letter M
An algebraic expression composed of one term.
Monomial
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# Letter E
An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
Ewer
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# Letter X
A palce of perfect idyllic beauty
Xanadu
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# Letter x
Someone who is atrracted to foreign styles, customs, manneres etc
Xenophile
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# Letter X
The art of engraving wood
Xylography
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# Letter X
Dryness of the lips
Xerochilia
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# Letter Z
A gentle breeze
Zephyr
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# Letter Z
Generally speaking, to fugure out the answer to a difficult problem with a sudden flash of insight
Zen
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# Letter Z
The prevailing views, attitudes and beliefs of a given generation or period in history
Zeitgeist
*Going green is very much at the forefront of the nations Zeitgeist*
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# Letter Y
A gullible inhabitant of a rural area
Yokel
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# Letter z
Meditation in a cross legged posture
Za-Zen
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# Letter X
of a yellowish tint or colour
Xanthic
*Laura wore a xanthic dress to the spring ball.*
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# Letter X
An ill tempered shrewish woman
Xanthippe
| zan Tip ee
## Footnote
Wife of socrates
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# letter w
One who succeeds in business or a similar endeavour at a comparatively young age
Wunderkind
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# Letter W
Withered, shriveled and dried up
Wizened
| Wiz UHND
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# Letter W
Winning and engaging, Charming
Winsome
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# Letter W
Means or resources, Money
Wherewithal
| Wair with all
85
# Letter W
An important event that signals the beginning of a new era or phase
Watershed
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# Letter W
lewd, lascivious and Loose
Wanton
*Robert is so wanton that women stay away from him*
| Wahn tn
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# Letter W
A strong an innate desire to travel far from home
Wanderlust
| Won der lust
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# Letter W
An adjective: Travelling on foot
Wayfaring
*We spent many wayfaring weekends during our month long jaunt in France last year*
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# letter v
Related to spring
Vernal
| Ver nuhl
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# Letter V
A brief story or an episode or incident usually told to illustrate a point
Vignette
*Adding a vignette or two to a speech can help make abstract ideas clearer*
| Vin yet
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# Letter v
That which changes colour or contains different hues of the same colour
Variegated
*The lawn covered in variegated fallen leaves is a sign that autumn is finally here.*
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# Letter U
A perfect or ideal society
Utopia
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# Letter U
Doting on ones wife to an excessive degree
Uxorious
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# Letter U
A person who seizes position of power through illegal means
Usurper
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# Letter U
A job, investment, business venture or other activity that pays little or no financial return
Unremunerative
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# Letter U
Not easy to handle or manage
Unweildy
| Un Weel dee
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# Letter U
Awkward and clumsy
Ungainly
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# Letter t
Becoming or appearing swollen or distended
Turgescent
*His abs were so neglected that his stomach became turgescent after a meal*
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# Letter t
Belligerent, argumentative, always ready for a fight
Truculent
| TRUK you lent
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# Letter t
To submit obsequiously to a command
Truckle
| TRUHK uhl
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# Letter t
A picture or carving on three panels
Triptych
| TRIP tick
