Vocab 10 Flashcards
1
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Letter R
Synonym of Splendid
A
Ripping
2
Q
Leet F
Another word for an amusement park
A
Funfair
3
Q
Letter B
Automobile hood
A
Bonnet
4
Q
Letter c
The British call it maize, the americans call it
A
Corn
5
Q
Letter G
British call it Dust bin, the Americans call it
A
Garbage can
6
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Letter F
The British call it Torch, The Americans call it
A
Flash Light
7
Q
Letter V
Bristish Waistcoat is American….
A
Vest
8
Q
Pram is the shortened version of a
A
Perambulator
9
Q
Letter B
British Cracker is American
A
Biscuit
10
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Letter S
A female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work
synonyms:
A
Slavey
11
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Letter R
A highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
A
Ring Road
12
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Synonyms of Ring Road
A
- Beltway
- Ringway
13
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Letter W
Synonym of Scolding
A
Wigging
14
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Letter M
A dealer in textiles (especially silks)
A
Mercer
15
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Letter S
Synonym of underground
A
Subway
16
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Letter S
A Lawyer who practices in Lower courts, Gives Legal advise and assists Barristers
A
Solicitor
17
Q
Letter W
Another word for Exit
A
Way out
18
Q
Letter M
Synonym of Curse
A
Malediction
19
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Letter c
Physical condition characterised by suspension of sensation and muscular rigidity
A
Catalepsy
20
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Letter P
Organised massacre esp of Jews
A
Pogrom
21
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Letter a
Heavy iron block on which metals are hammered into desired shapes
A
Anvil
22
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Letter D
first year cadet in the US Airforce Academy
A
Doolie
23
Q
Letter S
A strong twilled fabric used esp for clothing
A
Serge
24
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Letter P
The vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip
A
Philtrum
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# Letter S
1. In excess of the required number.
2. In the theatre a performer with no speaking lines
Supernumerary
26
# Letter O
A figure of speech combing incongruous or contradictory ideas
Oxymoron
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# letter Z
A small round skull cap worn by Roman catholic ecclesiastics
Zucchetto
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# Letter T
A strong scented weedy herb having yellow flowers
Tansy
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# Letter S
A hot wind, often dusty or rainy, blowing from North Africa across the Mediterranean to southern Europe.
Sirocco
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# Letter D
A wild nosiy fight
Donnybrook
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# Letter a
Having primitve characteristics.
Reverting to an earlier type whose characteristics have skipped a generation or two
Atavistic
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# Letter C
A younger son or brother
Cadet
| Cadet branch of a family
33
# Letter C
Pertaining to marriage
Connubial
## Footnote
Connubial bliss
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# Letter d
A widow who retains property or title belonging to her husband
Dowager
## Footnote
Dowager duchess
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# Letter F
Pertaining to a son or daughter
Filial
## Footnote
Filial affection, filial respect
36
# Letter M
Pertaining to marriage between two people of unequal rank
Morganatic
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# Letter P
An inheritance from your father
Patrimony
38
# Letter P
The system whereby the eldest son automatically inherits his family's titles and estates to the exclusion of his sisters and younger brothers
Primigeniture
39
# letter S
A companionship, a fellowship particularly in the catholic church
Sodality
40
# Letter S
A group of women, esp a womans society at an American university
Sorority
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# Letter A
Mysterious, requiring secret Knowledge
Arcane
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# Letter A
practising self denial
Ascetic
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# Letter d
The theory that there is no such thing as freedom of choice
Determinism
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# Letter D
The divison between two parts that is sharply distinguished
Dichotomy
1. **The dichotomy between rich and poor
2. The Dichotomy between pacifism and warmongering
45
# Letter d
Rule by two people or bodies is
Diarchy
46
# Letter E
Based on direct observation, experience and experiment
Emperical
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# Letter H
A doctrine that advocates the pursuit of pleasure
Hedonism
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# Letter M
Cunning and opportunistic
Machiavellian
1. The end justifies the means
2. It is safer to be feared than be loved
49
# Letter N
a philosophy that rejects all values, religion and laws
Nihilism
50
# Letter P
A philosophy that sees God in everything; Humanity, the natural world, the universe
pantheism
51
# Letter P
A philosophy descring personal experience
Phenomenology
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# Letter P
Synonym of LIKELY
Putative
*When my son showed no interest in my business, my niece became my putative successor*
53
# Letter S
Seeking answers through questioning
Socratic
54
Where did the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece have their meetings
Stoa or porch
55
# Letter S
Resigned, prepared to put up with whatever life throws at you
Stoical
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# Letter A
One of the forms in which an element can exist
Allotrope
## Footnote
Diamond, graphite and coal are all allotropes of carbon
57
# Letter A
A heated argument
Altercation
58
The opposite of Heterodoxy is
Orthodoxy
59
# Letter H
The process of breaking up fat content in milk so that it is distributed evenly throughout, rather than sitting as a creamy layer on top
Homogenization
60
What does the root word META mean
1. Change
2. Beyond
## Footnote
Metacarpals, beyond the carpus (wrist). Metatarsals, beyond the tarsus (ankle)
61
# Letter M
The data about data
Metadata
## Footnote
the metadata about a schorlarly article might include its tile, abstract, author, date of publication
62
# Letter M
Concerned with the nature of reality, going beyond physics to find out what we can know about our existence
Metaphysical
63
# Letter S
Mutual dependency
Symbiosis
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Name the two types of symbiosis
1. Mutualism
2. Commensalism
65
# Letter M
A symbiotic relationship where both the parties benifit
Mutualism
when an insect feeding on the plants pollen spreads the pollen
66
The symbiotic relationship where one party benifts and the other is not harmed
Commensalism
If a spider weaves a web between the branches of a tree
67
# Letter s
A conference, where academic gathering where papers on a specific topic are presented and the drinking happens afterwards
Symposium
## Footnote
In ancient greece a gathering for the purpose of drinking and enjoying intellectual conversations
68
# Letter S
A sensation experience by a sense other than the one stimulated
Synaesthesia
## Footnote
a synaesthete is more often a left handed woman, tends to run in families
69
# Letter S
The off beat rhythm used in Jazz when something that should be a weak beat is made strong and vice versa
Syncopation
70
How will you pronouce SYNCOPE
Sin-Co-Pea
71
# Letter S
Omitting letters in the middle of a word as when we say Choc'late
Syncope
72
# Letter S
Working together
Synergy
73
# Letter S
An ecclesiastical council
Synod
74
The Greek word Ergon means
Work
* Synergy
* Energy
75
What is the actual meaning of the word DISINTERESTED
## Footnote
IT DOSENT MEAN BORED
Impartial. Not affected by business interests or the oppurtunity to make a profit
## Footnote
If you are on trial you would want a jury that is disintersted rather than uniterested.
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What is the actual meaning of the word UNINTERESTED
Bored
77
What is the actual meaning of the word ENORMITY
## Footnote
Its not about size
Evilness or outrageousness
*The enormity of his actions shocked even the most hardened cynics*
78
# Letter s
Something the gardeners do to soil or seeds
Scarify
79
# Letter A
Study of life throughout the universe
Astrobiology
80
# Letter E
A synonym of Astrobiology
Exobiology
81
# Letter b
Belonging to the middle class
Bourgeois
82
# Letter I
An illusion that misleads
Ignis fatuus
83
# Letter I
A glowing, mysterious light that you see at night in a swamp or marsh is an
Ignis fatuus
## Footnote
The combination of methane gas and decaying plants that's found in bogs and swamps can result in a glow or pale fire that's visible at dusk or in the dark. One of many names for this is ignis fatuus — it's also known as a will o' the wisp or a friar's lantern.
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# Letter H
serving to urge or call to action.
Hortative
Hortative speech urges people to action
## Footnote
Think your parents are too lax about recycling? It might be time to deliver an impassioned, hortative speech about protecting the environment.
