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Vocab 10.8 Flashcards

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Erudite

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  • Adjective
    • If someone is described as being erudite.
    • Someone with a great deal of knowledge
    • Someone with great deal of learning
      Who is well read
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Learned

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  • The most common meaning won’t fit here
    • Someone who is well read
    • Synonym of erudite
      Scholar
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Profound

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  • Deep, thorough, absolute
    • Profound truth, profound silence
      Noun: profundity - depth
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Remember the mnemonic we used - RAVEN, to describe effect and affect

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Anachronistic

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  • Noun: Anachronism
    • Not belonging to the correct time period
    • Not of the time
      The costumes are anachronistic
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Chronometer

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  • Something that measures time
    • Exceptionally precise time piece
      Something kind of art
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Chronological

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  • Something that is arranged chronologically

It means it is arranged in order of time

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The words that we are going to see is something related to obsolete

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Archaic

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  • No longer in use
    • Something that is old fashioned
    • Ancient
      Out of date
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‘thou’ - ‘you’ is meaning of this word. Its archived

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Antiquated

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  • Synonym of archaic
    • Obsolete
      This word has the connotation where this word is used with machinery
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Aged

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  • Has different meaning on how it is being used
    • Off the age
    • I’ve have 2 kids, aged 3 and 7
      Alternate meaning: old and obsolete
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Infirm

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  • Weak

Aged infirm man

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Antediluvian

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  • Before + flood
    • Literal meaning: before the flood - the flood is Noah’s flood, ancient
    • Metaphorical: is obsolete
      By today’s standard it is antediluvian
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Ante

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  • Before
    • Earlier
      Prior
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Antecedent

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  • Something coming or occurring before

Another meaning: bet, price, stake - he upped the ante - he increased the bet

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Antedate

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To be of earlier date

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Antemeridian

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  • Meridian - noon

Means before noon

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Narcissistic

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  • Being narcissistic
    • A person who is in love with himself
    • Someone who thinks too highly of himself
    • Someone who is “vain”
    • Someone who is “conceited”
      The word comes from narcissus
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Narcissus

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  • Character from Greek mythology

A boy who was very handsome, when he saw himself in the pond he fell in love with himself

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Synonyms of narcissistic

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  • Egocentric, egoist, egotist, egotistical, egomaniac, egomaniacal
    Arrogant
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Used as: someone “who is narcissistic”

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usage

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Vain

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  • Conceited - overly proud of yourself
    • One more meaning: “In vain”
    • Not producing the desired result
    • Something that you did became fruitless
    • Did it in Vain
    • Something that is “futile”
    • Idiom - to do something in vain
    • Eg: you hope in vain
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The words that we are going to learn -

To banish them from the society

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Pariah

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  • An outcaste

Someone who is shunned by the society

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Shunned

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  • To avoid dealing with

He shunned is siblings

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Ostracize

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  • to banish
    • To exclude someone from society or group
    • To treat someone as a pariah
    • He has been ostracized
      Noun: ostracism - exclusion, banishment
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Culpable (adjective)

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  • Culp - blame + pable - worthy
    • Someone who is worthy of the blame
    • Blameworthy
      Responsible for having done something wrong
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Culprit (Noun)

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  • Someone who is charged with an offense or crime

Guilty of crime

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Exculpate

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  • Ex - out of
    • To free someone from blame
    • To excuse someone from having done something wrong
      To clean someone of guilt or blame
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Exculpatory evidence

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The evidence would free the person from the blame

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Syllables - see what is this

If you find a lot of these - slow down

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Exonerate

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ex - out of, free from
- Oner - onus - burden
- To excuse or to forgive for having done something bad
To free someone from a responsibility, obligation, duty or burden

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Mea culpa

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  • Mea - mine or my
    • Culpa - blame
    • To acknowledge your fault
      To admit your guilt
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Negate

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  • To make something invalid
    • To make something ineffective
    • To nullify
    • To deny
    • To canal out
      To void
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Nugatory

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  • Of very little value or importance
    • Trivial
      Trifling
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Aforementioned

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  • Afore means before
    • Something mentioned before
    • Mentioned previously
      Very formal word
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Ascertain

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  • To make sure/ certain of something
    • To be sure
    • To be definite
    • To examine
      I would like to ascertain the veracity of your story - veracity (truthfulness)
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Idiom - Up and up

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Open and honest

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The words that we learn today will deal with scarcity

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Dearth

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  • Shortage of
    • Lack of
    • Scarcity
      Dearth of information from north Korea
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Paucity

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  • Synonym of dearth

Japan has a paucity of natural resources

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Modicum

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  • Small amount or small quantity
    • Yes I do accept that there is small amount of modicum in my family
    • Is there even a modicum of truth in whatever you said
      Idiom - modicum of
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Scintilla

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  • Small amount or trace amount
    • A minute amount
      A trace of something
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Trace

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  • When used as a noun - something that is barely noticeable, barely perceptible
    • When used as a verb- to delineate or sketch a figure
      To follow someone’s path
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Minute

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  • Small amount.

There are 2 pronunciations for this

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Scant

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  • Inadequate
    • At the moment we have only scant details
      We were given scant amount of resources for the project
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Minuscule

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  • Extremely small or tiny

Minuscule script

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The words that we learned yesterday, all meant minuscule

We’ll learn the antonyms today

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Copious

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  • Large quantity , plentiful, abundance

Copious amount of information, copious sunshine

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Plethora

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  • Superabundance
    • Excess amount of something
    • Plenty of something - large amount
    • Plethora of topics to choose from
      Plethora of paintings, plethora of toys
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Prodigious

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  • Large size in the intellectual sense
    • Something that is enormous
    • Not in the physical sense
      he has prodigious amount of knowledge
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All these words will qualify as the antonyms for the words we learned yesterday

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Counter

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  • This word is the counter as in prefix
    • Just means opposite or contrary
    • Counterclaim, countersue, counteract, counterattack , counterbalance, countercharge, countercheck, counterculture
    • Counterculture - the culture especially of young people with values that run counter to those of the establishes norms, values, traditions, conventions, mores
      Counteroffer, counterplot, counterpoint, counterproposal, counterintuitive
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All the words that we are going to learn today is going to be with unfriendly

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Belligerent

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  • Quite aggressive
    • Noun: belligerence
      Aggressive character
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Bellicose

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  • Hostile
    • Aggressive
    • War like attitude
    • Combative attitude
      Noun: bellicosity
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Pugnacious

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  • Wanting to fight
    • Hostile
    • Quarrelsome
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Contentious

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  • He wants to engage in a rivalry
    • Wants to engage in competition
    • Striving to win
      Quarrelsome
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Comes from the word contend

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Contend

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  • Very competitive
    • To vie
    • I could have been somebody. I could have been a contender
    • You want to assert your point
    • To maintain your point
    • Noun: Contention
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Yesterday we learnt words who wants to fight

Today we are going to continue with the same theme

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same theme continuation

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Combative

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  • Wanting to engage in a combat, fight

Someone who is belligerent, quarrelsome, pugnacious, bellicose

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Cantankerous

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  • Somebody who is always very grumpy.
    • Someone who is not approachable
    • Someone who is not very friendly
    • Someone who is not amiable
      Someone who is ill-tempered, quarrelsome, disagreeable person
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Disagreeable

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you know the meaning

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Pugilist

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  • Just means a boxer
    • Noun: Pugilism - means boxing
      Fighting with your fist
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Moribund

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about to die

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Invalid

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  • Simple meaning: not valid, not legally enforceable
    • Faulty - not making a valid argument
    • Not based on sound reasoning
    • Second meaning: someone is described as invalid person - disabled person
    • Handicapped person
      Chronically ill person
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Debilitate

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  • They had a debilitated injury
    • To make weak
      To make feeble, infirm
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Infirm

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  • Not sound
    • Not valid
    • Not robust
      To be weak in body especially due to old age
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Metamorphose

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  • To transform
    • To change form
      Eg: larva metamorphosed into a beautiful butterfly
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Larva

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  • Singular word

Plural from - larvi

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Metamorphosis

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  • Noun

Plural : metamorphoses

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Mnemonic

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  • Mnemonic device is a memory device

Something that you make up to help you remember something

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Innocuous

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  • Having no adverse negative effect
    • Harmless comment
      Innocent comment
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Livid

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  • Extremely angry
    • Extremely upset
    • To be full of fury
      To be full of anger
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Postulate

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  • To suppose
    • To hypothesis
    • To speculate - speculation
    • Noun: postulation
      A supposition

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