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Vocab 1 Flashcards

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Increment

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An increase or addition.

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Description

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A spoken or written representation.

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Discretion

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The quality of behaving or speaking in such way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private information.

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Efficiency

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The state of being efficient.

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Phonics

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A method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system.

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Regress

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Return to a former or less developed state.

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Forgo

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Decline to take; Go without

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Abysmal

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Extremely bad

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Masquerade

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A false show or pretense.

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Curmudgeon

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A bad tempered or surly person.

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Miscreant

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A person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law.

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Allude

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Suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at

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Parochial

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Of or relating to a Church parish

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Bloc

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A combination of countries,parties, or groups sharing a common purpose

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Embedded

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Fix firmly and deeply in a surrounding mass

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Inducement

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A thing that persuades or influence someone to do something

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Anachronism

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Something that doesn’t belong in the period it was found in or Old-fashioned.

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Plurality

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The fact or state of being plural

19
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Turmoil

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A state of great disturbance, confusion or uncertainty.

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Engender

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Cause or give rise to

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Paradox

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a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.

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Archaic

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Very old or old fashioned

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Pander

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An immoral or distasteful desire,need,or habit,or a person with such desire.

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