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Vocab #1-50 Flashcards

1
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Adept

A

Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

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Admonish

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Warn,scold,caution

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Ambiguous

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Unclear meaning, two possible interpretations

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Apocalyptic

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Involving or portending widespread devastation or ultimate doom

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5
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Apocryphal

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Of questionable authenticity

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Appellation

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A name,title, or designation

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Archetype/archetypal

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An original model, pattern or type

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Ascertain

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To determine; to find out

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Assiduous

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Diligent, persistent

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Baize

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A type of coats woolen cloth, often green, usually used for covering card tables

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Base

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Inferior;dishonorable

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Bastion

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A well-fortified position

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Berate

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To rebuke,reprimand, or scold

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Bourgeoisie

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The middle class ; in Marxist theory, the social group opposed to proletariat

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Calumny

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Slander; a false statement maliciously made to injure another’s reputation

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Cant

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Tedious talk; monotonous talk filled with platitudes

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Censure

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To reprimand ;to to excommunicate

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Coarse

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Lacking refinement or rough grained in texture

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Confute

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To prove to be wrong or in error

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Connoisseur

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A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts

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Corporeal

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Having physical substance,material form

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Decry

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Express strong disapproval of

23
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Defer;deference

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Submit or yield to another’s wish or opinion

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Deliquesce

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To disappear as if by melting

25
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Acuity

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Sharpness,keenness

26
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Dilatory

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Inclined to waste time and lag behind

27
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Disparage

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To criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value them

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Draught

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A current of unpleasantly cold air blowing through a room

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Dray

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A large low carriage with four wheels pulled by horses

30
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Dyspeptic

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Dyspepsia; always angry or easily annoyed or having indigestion

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Elicit

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To call forth, draw out, or provoke; to bring out or draw out

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Emit

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To send out a beam small noise smell or gas

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Espionage

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Spying; the discovery of secrets, especially political or military information of Anets country or industrial information of the business

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Facile

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Easy, effortless

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Feign

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To pretend, to dissemble, to miss represent

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Fester

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To become infected, or suppurate; add infection

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Festoon

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Draped decorated as for a parade or state event

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Fledgling

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New and inexperienced

39
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Gainsay

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Challenge disputed

40
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genuflect

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Magnificent,splendid,vast beauty

41
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Grudging

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Done in an unwilling way; unwillingly

42
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Hack

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A reporter,artist or writer who’s work is not very good

43
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Husband (Ed)

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To use something carefully so that you do not use all of it

44
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Illicit

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Contrary to accepted morality of convention

45
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Illusory

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Not real, based in illusion

46
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Imbible

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To drink,especially alcohol

47
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Inexorable

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Without end, interminable

48
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Introspective

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Examination of and attention to your own ideas,thoughts, and feelings

49
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Kowtow

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To show too much respect to someone in authority,always obeying them and changing what you do in order to please them; why a ‘today’ does, sucking up

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