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Vocab 10.9 Flashcards

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Simile

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  • Figure of speech in which two dissimilar things are compared using the word “like” or “as”
    • As weak as Water - called a simile
    • She is dead as a dodo
    • We have looked at the word - extant
      Extant - something that exist
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Similitude

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  • Replica, copy, similarity

Something that closely resembles something else

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Verisimilitude

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  • Veri (prefix) - means the truth
    • Something that has an appearance of being truth or real or genuine
    • Plausibility
    • Plausible - something very similar
    • Likelihood
      Usage: To land very similitude to support my story
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Veritable

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  • Veri (prefix) - means the truth
    • Something that you know to be truth
    • Something that is authentic
    • Something that is real, true, genuine
      While in verisimilitude had the nuance of being likely being true
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Tentative:

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  • something that is not for sure
    • Tentative schedule - some schedule that is liable to change
    • Something that is not yet done deal
    • Something that is not certain
    • Something that is a experimental nature
    • Something that is not confirmed
    • Something that is iffy
    • Something that is provisional
    • Tentative and provisional - synonyms
      Teachers generally talk about syllabus as tentative
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Edifice

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  • A grand building or structure

A building that is imposing in appearance or size

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Christen

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  • Write Christ and then insert “en”
    • Literal: to baptize: to dedicate
    • Metaphorical: to give someone or something a name
      To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water
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Another phrase from latin we see quite often in science and maths textbooks

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build up

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Ceteris Paribas

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  • With all other things or variables being constant
    • All things equal
    • All other things being constant
    • It is the assumption that we make assuming all other things remain constant
      The notice or the warning is Ceteris Paribas
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Caveat (Noun)

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  • Form of warning
    • Formal notice
    • A caution
      The caveat that was ceteris Paribas
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Thrice

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  • Three times something
    • (as opposed to twice)
    • A period of two-weeks - Fort Night
      “I get paid Fortnightly”
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Impasse

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  • Deadlock
    • A stalemate
    • A difficult situation that offers no workable solution
    • A situation where neither parties are willing to compromise
      A standstill
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Mar

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  • To mar something
    • To tarnish
    • To blemish
    • To disfigure
    • To deface
    • To damage
      You can mar somebodies reputation
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Heinous

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  • Something that is shockingly or evil
    • heinous crime
    • Something that is atrocious
    • Something that is horrendous, flagrant
    • Outstandingly bad
      Conspicuously bad
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Furtive (Adjective)

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  • Something that is hidden, secretive
    • Something that is not disclosed
    • Something that is characterized by stealth
      Surreptitious - already learnt, to do something in a sneaky manner, secretive manner, stealthy way when no one is looking
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Clement

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  • To be clement means to not be too harsh
    • To not be too harsh
    • Lenient (spelling check)
      To be merciful
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Clemency

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  • Mercy
    • Leniency
      Leniency towards an offender or an enemy
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Inclement

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  • Not mild or merciful
    • Weather that is not harsh or severe, stormy
      Inclement weather
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All the words today means a disastrous event

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build up

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Apocalypse

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  • A grand revelation
    • A prophetic disclosure
      Adjective: Apocalyptic and apocalyptical
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Cataclysm

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  • A huge disaster
    • A catastrophe
    • A devastating flood
    • A deluge
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Deluge

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  • A great flood
    • A flood of monumental proportion
    • Metaphorically - something that is overwhelming
    • A deluge of complaints - felt like they were flooded by them
    • A deluge of junk mails
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Calamity

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A huge disaster that results in horrible loses and terrible suffering

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Echelon (noun)

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  • Level of command or authority in a given organization
    • Echelon is the level of hierarchy in an organization
      Level of grade in a given organization
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Waffle

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  • Used in a colloquial sense
    • To speak or to write evasively
    • You are not giving a straight answer
    • To dodge the question
    • To mislead, but just doing it willfully
    • To mislead on purpose
    • To prevaricate
    • To equivocate
      To qualify
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Cop out - expression.. Colloquial

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  • To fail to accept responsibility for something
    • To refuse to commit oneself
      Usually out of timidity
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Intransigent

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Uncompromising, unyielding, unbending, stubborn

28
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We’ll learn a word from a sentence
The only criteria we used in deciding which house to buy was the price

Criteria is a plural in the previous sentence. So we use the word
Criterion to be used

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learning using sentence

29
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Criterion

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  • Rule
    • System
      When you use “only”, then we use criterion
30
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Acclimate

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  • To get used to one’s surroundings
    • Your body gets acclimated to the cold water in the bathroom after 2 sittings
      To get used to one’s environment or situation
31
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Assimilate

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  • To assimilate means to get used to new culture
    • To get used to new language
    • To get used to new society
    • To get used to new mores(45)
      More in the intellectual, but not in physical sense
32
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Remember we learned about Eclectic

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remember and revise

33
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Eclectic

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  • Coming from various sources
    • Eclectic collection
      Coming from Disparate sources
34
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Disparate

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Varied, dissimilar, different, distinct

35
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Muck up

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  • Colloquial expression
    • To botch something
    • To make a mess of something
    • To screw something up big time
    • To bungle
      To make pigs breakfast
36
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The words that we are learning today - “things that are easily noticeable”

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build up

37
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Conspicuous

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  • Easily noticeable
    • Something that is obvious
    • Something that attracts attention
    • Something can attract people’s attention because it is gaudy and vulgar
    • but this word does not come under that category
      Something that attracts people’s attention because it is showoff
38
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Ostentatious

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  • Means something similar to conspicuous
    • Showoff
    • Boastful
    • Meant to impress others
      Noun: Ostentation
39
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Pretentious

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Synonym of ostentatious, conspicuous

40
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Pompous

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  • Exaggerated show of self-importance
    • Remember subramanium swamy calling kamal hasan a pompous idiot
    • To think highly of yourself
    • The word pompous comes from “pomp”
      Noun: pomp
41
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Pomp

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  • Vanity(forgot the meaning)

Ostentatious display of your belonging or things

42
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Flamboyant

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  • Something that is easily noticeable because Ornate

Richly designed or richly colored

43
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Now we are going to learn words that are easily noticeable

Because they are bad and horrible

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build up slide

44
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Flagrant

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  • Something that is outstandingly bad

Easily noticeable and meant/designed to shock others

45
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Glaring

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  • There are different meaning
    • To stare at something in an angry manner
    • Something that is very shinny
    • Something that is very obvious because it is poorly done
      Or done improperly. Mistake done too obvious
46
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Egregious

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  • Something that is outstandingly bad
    • Something that is horribly bad
      Something that is flagrant
47
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Pedantic

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  • To be excessively scholarly
    • Showing off one’s knowledge
      To be ostentatious concern for formal rules
48
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Hoodlum and hooligans

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  • Thug, gangster

A rough rowdy destructive young man

49
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Ruffian

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Synonym of rowdy

50
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Miscreant

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  • Mis + croire
    • Not believe
      An Infidel(don’t know this word)
51
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Hobble-de-hoy

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  • A gawky adolescent boy

Don’t behave like a hobble-de-hoy

52
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Gawky

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  • Awkward and clumsy person

But there is not an equivalent word for the same with a girl

53
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All these words now we are going to learn is about stealing

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build up slides

54
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Pilfer (verb)

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  • To steal usually something of trivial nature
    • Petty thief
      Something in small amount of cash.
55
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Purloin (verb)

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  • To steal or to Filch

No insignificant value

56
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Filch

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  • To steal

No insignificant value

57
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Plunder

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  • To loot
    • To take something by force, in time of war
    • To take as spoils
58
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Pillage

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Plunder and pillage means the same thing

59
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Recapitulate

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Recap. Seen this word several times

60
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Purportedly

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  • Supposedly
    • Something that is assumed to be such
    • That is claimed
      That’s what they say
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Ostensible

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  • What something appears to be on the surface
    • To give appearance of something that is not
    • Michaels ostensible reason was to go and pray in the chruch
    • This word is for surya
      We know the ostensible reason for a politician to visit an orphanage
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Vie

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  • First meaning: to shoot for victory
    • Second meaning: to take part in a contest or a competition
    • To compete
    • To contend
      Second meaning: To wager, to bet
63
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Contend

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  • To strive or to shoot for something
    • To take part in a competition
    • Second meaning: to assert your point
    • To maintain that what a you saying is valid or true
      Assertion or contention
64
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Imbroglio

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  • Sticky complicated situation, difficult situation

Disagreement, quarrel, argument

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Extricate

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  • To free or to release oneself from a difficult situation or sticky situation
    • To disengage
    • To disentangle

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