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Vocab 41-80 Flashcards

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Mull

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Verb

  • to think about deeply and at a length
  • to ponder
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Niche

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Noun
“Nish”
- a place or position suitable for someone or something

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Respite

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Noun

- a short period of rest or relief from somethings that’s difficult

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Tenacious

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Adjective

  • keeping firm hold of something
  • not easily stopped
  • not giving up
  • firm or determined
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Prognosticate

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Verb

-to predict, forecast or fortell

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Condescending

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Adjective

  • to talk down to someone
  • to perceive as better than someone else
  • looking down at someone else
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Insoluble

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Adjective

  • impossible to solve
  • unanswerable
  • unable to be deciphered
  • unable to be dissolved
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Labyrinth

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Noun

- an elaborate maze (literal or figurative)

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Corsair

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Noun

  • a swift sailing ship(often used in an analogy)
  • a pirate ship
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Chicanery

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Noun

-trickery or deception used to gain an advantage

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Preen

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Verb

  • to make an effort to make yourself look better
  • to make oneself look attractive and admire ones appearance
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Ambiguous

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Adjective

  • something that doesn’t have an obvious answer
  • open to more than one interpretation
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Akin

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Adjective

  • similar
  • equal too
  • related
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Lexicon

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Noun

  • vocabulary or words used in a particular field
  • dictionary, workbook, vocabulary list
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Laconic

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Adjective

  • using very few words in speech or writing
  • brief
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Cordial

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Adjective

-friendly and warm

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Perforce

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Adverb
Necessarily
-out of necessity

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Perspicacity

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Noun

-having the ability to notice or understand things that are not easily understandable or obvious

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Repugnance

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Noun

-intense disgust

20
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Permeate

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Verb

- to pass or spread through

21
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Abyss

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Noun
- a deep or seemingly bottomless hole
(Figurative or literal)

22
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Animosity

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Noun

  • hate or dislike
  • hostility or resentment toward someone
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Jocular

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Adjective

-humorous and playful

24
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Lapse

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Noun
-an interval or lapse in time
-a temporary failure of concentration
“A lapse in judgement”

25
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Indecipherable

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Adjective

  • unable to figure out
  • not able to be read or understood
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Polemic

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Noun

-a strong verbal or written attack on something or someone

27
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Evince

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Verb

- to reveal the presence of something; disclose

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Effigy

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Noun

- a sculpture or model of a person

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Onerous

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Adjective

  • involving a great amount of effort
  • a task, duty, or responsibility involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome
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Statuary

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Noun

- a collections of statues

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Decorum

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Noun

  • manners; etiquette
  • a certain way to behave during certain situations
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Irreparable

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Adjective

Impossible to repair

33
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Guile

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Noun

- sly or cunning intelligence

34
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Cadence

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Noun

-a modulation or inflection of the voice

35
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Lassitude

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Noun

  • a state of physical and/ or mental fatigue
  • lack of energy
  • tiredness
36
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Ambivalence

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Noun

  • a state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about someone or something
  • uncertainty
37
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Assiduous

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Adjective

  • showing great care and perseverance for something
  • careful, thorough, attentive
38
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Stipulation

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Noun

A condition or repairment that is demanded in part of an agreement

39
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Pander

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Verb
-give in to, satisfy
-appealing to the wants and or desires of a certain group of people
Noun
-a person who caters to or profits from appealing to other people

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Dichotomy

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Noun
- a division into two parts/ a division of one group into two things
- contrast between two things
contrast or difference

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