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Vocab 10.6 Flashcards

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All the words today has to do with praising people

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Laud

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  • To praise, to glorify
  • To say nice things about someone or something
  • Adjective (Laudable) something that is laudable is something that deserves a praise
  • “That was a laudable thing that you did
  • Deserving praise
    Deserving “Approbation”
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Approbation

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  • Praise
  • Commendation(noun) - The word commend means to praise
  • An official or formal approval
    Generally a management would offer a approbation
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Commend

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  • To praise

To express approval of someone or something

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Extol

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  • Accepted spelling “Extoll”

To praise lavishly

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Eulogize

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  • To praise someone, especially in form of a speech
  • In the context of praising someone through speech - laud and praise wont work
  • So we have this nuance in this word which will work
    To Eulogize someone is to praise someone in the formal setting of a speech
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Confluence

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There is merging of ideas

The words that we are talking about today, entirely have no confluence with each other

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Discrete and Discreet and know the difference

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Obviate

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  • Make something unnecessary
  • To prevent something from happening by Anticipating
  • Thinking ahead of time
  • Or by taking counter measures
    You just obviate or avoid the necessary extra work.
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Counter

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  • Used as a prefix
  • Contrary, opposing, opposite
  • Counteract - To do something to negate what other person has done
  • Counterattack
  • Counterbalance
  • Countercheck
  • Counterclaim (usually happens in a court room, where the other person turns around and turns the case against the other person)
    Counterclockwise, India(Anti-clockwise)
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Tome

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  • Tome is a large bulky heavy book.
  • A scholarly book
  • One of books in a series of volumes
  • Don’t confuse this word with “tomb”
    Tomb is the place where a dead person is buried
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Impetus

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  • A force
  • An impulse
  • A stimulus that causes you to do something
    Prod(12)
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Caustic

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  • Literal meaning: something that is burning like acid. Something that is corroding. So generally make a caustic comment
  • Metaphorical: sharp and biting sarcastic comment
  • A corrosive comment
    Sharp and bitter witty
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Vitriol

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  • Literal meaning: Sulfuric acid
    • Something that burns like sulfuric acid is vitriolic
    • Vitriolic: something that is caustic
    • Bitterly “scathing”
      Something vitriolic
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Animosity

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  • Extreme hatred
    • Bitter hostility
    • Open enmity
    • Enemy = foe
      Animosity is an open hatred that you feel
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Acrimony

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  • It’s a synonym of Animosity
    • But there is a nuance to the word
      Display of hatred or hostility or animosity especially in speech or manner
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“Cut to the QUICK”

This was the word that means the part of the skin below the nail

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Quick

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  • Sensitive flush under the fingernails
    • The expression is “Cut to the Quick”
      Vitriolic
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Provincial

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  • Literal meaning: having to do with or coming from provinces
    • Etymology of the word: coming from the kingdom.
    • Metaphorical meaning: So from the metaphorical meaning, it has come to mean, not sophisticated, narrow minded, not fashionable
      Somebody having poor manners, somebody having limited perspective
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Now let’s take the antonym of this word

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Urbane

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  • You are not basically from the province
    • Having refined manners
    • Showing proper etiquette
    • Elegant
    • Cultured
      Suave (don’t know the meaning of this) - know this word properly
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Cosmopolitan

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  • Someone who is at ease in all parts of the world

Having varied interest and therefore is more sophisticated

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catholic

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  • Catholic with a capital “C” is a religion
    • An open minded person is said to be catholic
    • Liberal in outlook
      Someone is who is able to understand and appreciate the art and cultures of other religions
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parochial

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  • Should be spelled with a small “P”
    • Just a antonym of catholic
    • Narrow minded
    • Restricted in outlook
    • Provincial(54)
    • Conservative
      Convention(46)
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Ramshackle

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  • Something that is falling apart
    • Generally used in consent with buildings
    • Falling apart because of poor construction or poor maintenance
    • The whole structure is crumbling
    • Rundown (Learn all the three words following properly)
    • Decrepit
      Shoddy
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Rickety

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  • Likely to break down
    • Fall apart
    • Something that is feeble
    • Infirm
      Run down
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Dilapidated

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  • Fallen into a state of disrepair
    • Not well maintained
    • Something that is decaying
      Crumbling
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Affect (verb)

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  • To influence something
    • To have a impact on something or someone
      To touch or more one’s emotion
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Effect

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  • A result
    • An outcome
    • An Upshot
    • The final outcome
      The final result
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We are talking about 2 idioms today

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(Idiom)

In effect

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  • In fact
    • In actuality
    • In essence
      In reality
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To effect

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  • “To take effect”
    • To come in force
      To become operative
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Repertoire

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  • Range or list of songs plays, operas, performances, roles etc., that an actor is able to perform
    Range of skills or aptitudes of a person
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Condone

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  • To forgive a wrongdoing
    • To overlook a wrongdoing
    • To excuse a wrong doing
    • To pardon a wrong doing
    • To refrain from showing disapproval
    • To not show disapproval in a formal way
      We do not condone such behavior
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Refrain

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  • Verb: to hold one-self back
    • To restrain oneself
      Noun: A phrase or a verse repeated at intervals throughout a song or a poem
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Refrain

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  • Having difficulty seeing distant objects
    • Shortsightedness
    • If someone is said to be myopic
    • Unable to plan ahead
      Unable to think of distant future
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Apocryphal

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  • Something that is of questionable authenticity
    • Something that looks like true but is in fact false
    • Something that looks like genuine but is bogus
      Something that is of doubtful origin or dubious origin
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Spurious

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  • Something that is for sure is false
    • Something that is forgery
    • Something that is bogus
    • Something that is counterfeit
      It’s an out and out lie
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Decree

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  • A royal command
    • A royal order
    • A royal proclamation
      An authoritative order having the force of order
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Edict

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Synonym of decree

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words today have to do with blood

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Sangfroid

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  • Sang - French word for blood , froid means cold
    • It just means you have cold blood, just calm
    • To not lose ones temper
    • To not get too excited about something
    • To keep ones composure
    • To not be perturbed
      To keep ones cool
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Sanguine

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  • Literally: of the color of the blood, ruddy (reddy face), rosy
    Metaphorical: cheerful, optimistic
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Sanguinary

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  • Means to be blood thirsty
    • Having to do with carnage
    • Having to do with savage(see what this means)
      Something that is gory
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Gory

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  • Covered by Gore (blood)

Something that deals with bloodshed and extreme violence

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