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Vocab #13-15 Flashcards

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1
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Abnormal

A

Not normal

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Bleak

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Bare, desolate

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Consecutive

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Following one another in uninterrupted order, successive

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Doughty

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Strong, strength if character

Bold

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Efface

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To wipe out, to clean by time, to do away with

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Ennui

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Exhaustion, wearisome

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Foretell

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To tell beforehand, predict

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Gauntlet

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Long leather glove, organized system of doing something

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Heterodox

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Somebody who goes against an established routine

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Incongruous

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Not going well together

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Licentious

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Lascivious, acting like a slut, immoral

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Mitigate

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To lessen in severity, force, intensity

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13
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Modicum

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Small amount

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14
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Myriad

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A lot

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Thwart

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To block, push to the side

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Transient

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Temporal, quick , something that doesn’t last long

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Baleful

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Deadly, something that will cause harm, vindictive

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Demise

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Death of something, to pass on something

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Euphoria

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State of happiness and self-confidence

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Futile

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Pointless, ineffective

21
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Hackneyed

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Something that loses its affect because of overuse

22
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Latent

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Present but not visible

23
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Malingerer

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Person who feigns illness to avoid work

24
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Nefarious

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Extremely wicked or villainous, evil

25
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Obese

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Overweight, corpulent

26
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Pithy

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Something that is short, but has meaning

Full of vigor

27
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Surreptitious

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Done by stealthy, secret

28
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Testimony

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Statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, declaration of truth

29
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Tonic

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Liquid/medicine that strengthens and invigorates

30
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Tourniquet

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Any device to constrict the blood flow

31
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Tractable

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Obedient, easy to manage, docile, malleable

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Uncouth

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Something that doesn’t happen all the time, unusual, unmannerly

33
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Aptitude

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Being good at something

Talent, intelligence

34
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Astral

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Stellar, star-shaped

35
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Conversant

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Familiar by use or study

Well versed in something

36
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Diction

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Style of speaking or writing

37
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Ellipsis

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Three dots (…) that indicate an omission in text

38
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Humdrum

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Boring, dull, monotone

39
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Irony

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Use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

40
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Misanthrope

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Hater of humankind

41
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Nominal

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In name only

Small amount

42
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Omniscient

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Knowing all things

43
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Osier

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Dried willow sticks used to make furniture

44
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Porous

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Full of pores

45
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Prevalent

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Widespread, having superiority

46
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Saturate

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To soak

47
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Sere

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Dry, withered

48
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Usury

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The lending of money at an exorbitant interest

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