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Vocab 10.10 Flashcards

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1
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Alleviate

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  • To reduce pain ( or bad effect of something) and hence make it more bearable
    To lighten or to reduce
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Subside

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  • To reduce or to go down to a lower level

To become less agitated

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Subsidized

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Financial assistance to help bring down your burden

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Entity

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Something that exist all by itself completely independent of others

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Entirety

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  • Noun of entire

Complete thorough or whole

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Behest

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  • An order or command

Or can be used as a “ as a request or insistence

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Insistence

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To demand or ask for something vehemently (force)

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What does it mean to do something in an Affected manner?
To behave not in your natural self, but in an artificial and simulated manner purely to impress others
To behave in a way that is not genuine or natural

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Demure

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Modest and reserved or shy

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10
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Then what is a

AFFECTED DEMURE - not really shy, but wants to come across as one

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read this carefully

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There is a word for affected demure

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there is.. believe me

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Coy

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  • What does it mean to be coy?
    • Pretending to be shy but wants to come across as one
    • Eg: when I ask her age, she was coy and evasive
    • Not always but used with the connotation of flirtatious
      Second meaning - unwilling to divulge information
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Affected demure -
often comes with flirtatious
But not always

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Evasive

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  • To be intentionally vague or ambiguous
    • To not give an straight forward answer
    • To equivocate
    • To prevaricate
      To qualify
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Cagey

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  • To be very clever
    • To be careful in what you say and how you answer any question
    • To avoid being trapped
    • To be shrewd
      To be crafty
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Crafty

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  • To be skillful but in a underhanded manner
    • To be tricky
    • To be deceptive
      Crafty has negative nuance
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Shrewd

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  • It is a synonym of cagey but has a positive nuance
    • Means clever with a positive connotation
    • Has a keen insight
    • “he is shrewd trader”
    • Astute
    • Sagacious
      Sarwesh is shrewd investor
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Astute

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  • To be mentally sharp
    • To be clever
    • To have keen judgement
      Michael is astute politician
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Sagacious

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  • To be wise
    • To be full of wisdom, knowledge
    • To possess sound judgement
    • Synonyms - shrewd, astute
    • Noun: sagacity
      Sagacity - to be perceptive
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Perceptive

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  • What is the noun of perceptive or what quality does he have?
    • Noun: Perspicacity
    • Because he is perspicacious
      Adjective: Perspicacious
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21
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Words that we learn today have a meaning of strange behavior

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Eccentric

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  • Behaving in a odd manner
    • Having odd mannerism
    • Strange or unusual habits
    • Deviating from norms or conventions
      Noun: eccentricity
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Synonym of eccentricity

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Idiosyncrasy

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  • Peculiar behavior

Adjective: idiosyncratic

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Peculiar

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  • Synonym of idiosyncratic, eccentric
    • Noun: peculiarity
      oddity - peculiarity
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Quirk

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  • Adjective: quirky

Synonym of idiosyncratic

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The words that we are going to deal with is to do with foul

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Sordid

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  • Filthy, disgusting, dirty, foul, squalid

- I know all about their sordid affair

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Squalid

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  • This word has a connotation where the physical sense of the filth is described
    • Squalid condition of the prison
    • Squalid condition of the prison
    • Squalid conditions of slums, shantytowns, favelas
      Sordid cannot be used in the above context as described
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30
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Ghastly

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  • Something that causes horror or dread
    • Something that is frightening
    • The scene of murder was ghastly
    • Something that is disgusting, horrible, repugnant
      Extremely unpleasant
31
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Console

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  • There are 2 means to this word
    • Console: as a verb - to comfort someone in their time of grief, loss, or sadness
      Consolation: as a noun - to comfort them
32
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Antonym of console

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ok

33
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Inconsolable

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Not able to console

34
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Another meaning of console

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ok

35
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Console

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  • A decorative bracket for supporting a shelf

A cabinet for a radio, TV, stereo designed to stand on a floor

36
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Juxtaposition

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  • Putting 2 things next to side by side/ next to each other for comparison purposes
    • Verb: juxtapose - 2 placed side by side
37
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Comprehensive

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  • To be complete, to be thorough, to be detailed, to be all-inclusive, to be all encompassing
    To be exhaustive
38
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Exhaustive

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  • In this context just a synonym of comprehensive
    • The fumes that comes out of the muffler
    • To use up, to consume all the resources
      Exhausted = tired
39
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Encompass

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To surround, to enclose, to comprise, to include

40
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Flaunt

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  • To show-off, to exhibit something haughty (arrogant)
    • To exhibit haughty, to exhibit ostentatiously
      He likes to flaunt his knowledge
41
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Flout

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to show complete disregard for something you feel it is beneath you
to show contempt

42
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Contempt

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  • To show utter disrespect
    • Eg: to flout the law, to flout the rules and regulations
      If you don’t shut up, you’ll be held in contempt of the court
43
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Fallible

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  • Capable of making a mistake or error

Sorry, everyone is fallible

44
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Antonym would be
Infallible
Eg: no one is infallible, everyone is fallible

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ok

45
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All these words means things done in a very sneaky way

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ok

46
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Furtive

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  • Something done in a sneaky manner
    • Something that is done in secret
    • Something that is done in stealth - secrecy
    • Adverb: stealthy
    • Surreptitious
      To do something in a under handed manner
47
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A covert operation must employ an element of stealth

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48
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Covert

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  • A covert operation is one that must be carried out in concealed manner/ hidden manner/ secret manner
    Covert operation - it must be done clandestinely
49
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Clandestine

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  • Concealed or kept secret

“MUM is the word”

50
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Hardy

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  • Describing somebody as hardy
    • Someone who is rugged and strong
    • Someone who is courageous / brave
    • Someone is intrepid - to means to bold, brave
    • To be daring
    • To be audacious
    • Hardy is generally used not to describe a person,
      Sometimes a plant - a vegetation is described as being hardy, because it can survive harsh conditions
51
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Audacious

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  • Bold, fearless, brave, daring, courageous, intrepid
    • Noun: audacity
      In most cases carries a positive or negative connotation
52
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Temerity

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  • To behave in bold or audacious manner but in a foolish way

To have foolhardy disregard of danger or appropriateness or propriety

53
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Propriety

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  • Noun of proper answer
    • Your behavior showed propriety
    • State of being proper or correct
    • Proprietorship - ownership
    • Proprietor
      Proprietary - generally used as - proprietary right are legal rights bestowed or conferred on an owner
54
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Hibernate

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  • To be inactive
    • To be dormant
    • Literally means, to pass the winter in a state of inactivity
      Noun: Hibernation
55
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Dormant

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  • To be inactive
    • To be in state of inactivity
      Eg: account being dormant - bank account dormant
56
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Hiatus

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  • Break
    • It’s a gap in an activity or work
    • It is an interruption
    • A pause
    • A period of hibernation
    • Hiatus is generally used with a short duration
      Hibernation is used with a much longer time
57
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Detriment

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  • Anything that causes harm, injury, damage or loss is said to be a detriment
    Adjective: detrimental
58
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Now we’ll see some synonyms of detrimental

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Harmful, injurious, deleterious,

59
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Injurious

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  • Something that is capable of causing an injury

Smoking is injurious to one’s health

60
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Deleterious

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  • Having a harmful effect
    • Causes injury
      Detrimental
61
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Reprove

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  • Noun: reproof
    • To show disapproval
    • To find fault with something
    • To scold someone
    • To rebuke
    • To show disapprobation
    • Adjective: reprovable
      Adverb: reprovingly
62
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Approbation(51)

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  • Just a approval or a praise
    • Praise
      Commendation
63
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Commend (51)

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  • If you are commending someone, you are just showing approval to them
64
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The words now means - you are not too keen in what the person is doing

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ok

65
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Knock

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  • To find fault with something
    • To criticize
    • To belittle
    • To deride - making fun of someone
    • To make fun of someone
    • To ridicule someone
      To look down on someone
66
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Noun of deride

Derision

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  • Adjective: derisive
    • Adverb: derisively
      She spoke derisively
67
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Pathos

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  • Always spelled with an ‘s’
    • Something that arouses or evokes or causes a feeling of pity, sympathy, compassion, tenderness or sorrow
      Anything that moves you - it is full of pathos - evokes a lot of feelings
68
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Has a root of pathy-

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know the root pathy

69
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Ethos

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  • Values/beliefs that a group of people/culture/movement/ or an organization lives by or believes in
    Eg: our company has made environmental awareness part of its business ethos
70
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Creed

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  • Find the meaning of this word
71
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Antipathy

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  • Anti - against
    • Pathy - feelings
    • Feeling of dislike
    • Feeling of aversion
      Feeling of hatred
72
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Aversion

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  • Strong dislike for something
    • Idiom: “averse to” travelling
      Not averse for
73
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Apathy

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  • When “a” is prefixed, it means “not”
    • Not + feelings
    • When you have no feelings for something or someone
    • To show no emotions or interest
    • Adjective: apathetic
      Adverb: apathetically
74
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Indifference

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Synonym of apathy

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