Vocab Flashcards

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Hypnotize enthrall hold by an irresistable attraction

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Mesmerized

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Concerned anxious attentive

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Solicitous

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Restore to harmony or friendship make consistent with cause to accept

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Reconcile

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A proposition to be proved or to be defended against objections

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Thesis

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Discourage from actim restrain by fear or doubt

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Deter

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One who keeps others from using something that he himself has no use for

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Dog in the manger

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Brief outline of the main points of a series of lectures or of a coverse of study

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Syllabus

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A person who receives the blame for what others have done

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Scapegoat

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Saying much in few words terse concise

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Laconic

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10
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To deliver up to obtain

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Extradite

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Fanatically devoted to ones country believing unreasonably in the superiority of ones own group

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Chauvinistic

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12
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Seperation

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Estrangement

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13
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Prevention of action by threat or use of force

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Constraint

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14
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A person having a mental problem

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Psychopath

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15
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A decisive crushing defeat

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Waterloo

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16
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Place that many people visit center of activity goal to be reached

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Mecca

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17
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Following a winding course wander aimlessly without a destination

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Meander

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18
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Person being guided helped in his career by a prominent person

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Protege

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19
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female protege

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Protegee

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20
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Unshakeable unyielding in ones opinion on opposition

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Adamant

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21
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Complete authority to act as one wishes

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Carte blanche

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22
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A disagreeable detestable loathesome thing

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Abomination

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23
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Use improperly debase secular impure defiled

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Profane

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24
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A voter represented by someone in public a component part

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Constituent

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Particular
Meticulous
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Work hard suffer pain agony
Travail
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One who has an... Or one who pretends an...
Aethete
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Art or practice of reaching the very brink of danger before stopping
Brinkmanship
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Artfulness refinement skill in handling of difficult matters
Finesse
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Painfully sharp deeply moving causing pity
Poignant
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Break up into parts or particles
Disintergrate
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Social blunder mistake in etiquette
Faux pas
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A footrace of 26.2 miles any endurance contest or prolonged effort
Marathon
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A formal expression of praise eulogy fervent praise
Encomium
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Giving or spending wastefully giving or producing abundantly
Prodigal
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The main or recurring theme in a work of art or literature
Motif
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Info used as a basis for a decision facts known or available an organized in an organized form
Data
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The number 10 to the 100
Googol
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Device that produces synchronized light waves for such purposes as measuring distance in space carrying audio and video info and welding or fusing various materials
Laser
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A mild functional disorder of the mind or emotions
Neurosis
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A male grad school (pl) 2 or more male grads male and female grads together
Alumnus
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To express emotion excessively in a play pr as if in a play
Emote
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Loud and forceful
Forte
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Seperate from make hostile or indifferent to
Alienate
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A narrow-minded self satisfied member of the american middle class
Babbitt
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Member of a spacecraft crew
Astronaut
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An instrument making low pitched audio sounds
Woofer
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A female graduate of a school
Alumna
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Bring to mind
Evoke
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To spend time in idleness to loaf
Laze
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Being idle disciplined to work
Lazy
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One who prepares written material for publication
Editor
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An unbranded calf or colt any range animal away from the herd an independent person who does not conform to his group
Maverick
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An instrument making high pitched audio sounds
Tweeter
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A branched candlestick holding several candles
Candelabrum
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A soviet astronaut
Cosmonaut
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A reference list for a larger work
Index
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Method of reveaing distance by beaming microwave pulses at an object and picking up the returning radiation by an antenna
Radar
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Ill will bitter emnity
Animosity
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Immediate knowledge not gained by reasoning
Intuition
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Leaders of large corporations observed successful entrepreneurs and began encouraging enterprising employees to be intrapreneurs
Intrapreneur
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A british policeman
Bobby
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A system of treating diseases by natural means
Natropathy
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Restraining all expression of emption or pain
Stoic
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A strong feeling such as joy sorrow fear or hate
Emotion
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Waver be indecisive in purpose or opinion
vacillate
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A person who treats
Naturopath
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Observable event rare outstanding or abnormal event person or thing
Phenomenon
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To have immediate...
Intuit
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Tearfully or weakly sentimental
Maudlin
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Small unimportant details trifles
Minutia
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Items priced seperately as listed on the menu
A la carte
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Lighthearted affable sprightly having refined manners
Debonair
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In an idealistic but impractical manner
Quixotically
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Tending to contradict turning away from right and good
Perverse
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The act of delivering up an alleged criminal to another government for trial the act of detaining an alleged criminal for trial
Extradition
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Stern severe harsh unadorned simple
Austere
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Long life
Longevity
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List of things to be done in a meeting
Agenda
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A thing to be added such as a supplement to a book
Addendum
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A hunter
Nimrod
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Victory at the cost of overwhelming losses
Pyrric victory
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Hold as if by force compel confine limit
Constrain
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A catchword custom or manner of dress enabling members to of a group to recognize each other and exclude others
Shibboleth
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Pertaining to an appreciation of the beautiful
Aesthetic
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Something that a person does especially well
Forte
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Highest rank or importance
Preeminence
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To prepare
Edit
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Style of cooking food prepared in a particular style
Cuisine
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Cheap and gaudy in appearance
Tawdry
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Very small tiny trivial petty
Lilliputian