Vocab 5 Flashcards

1
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Acuity

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Keenness of sense perception, sharpness.

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2
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Delineate

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To represent by sketch or diagram

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3
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Depraved

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Morally corrupt, perverted

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4
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Emend

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To amend, improve, better, reform, rectify

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5
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Enervate

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To weaken

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6
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Esoteric

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Understood by few

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7
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Fecund

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Capable of producing offspring, fertile

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8
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Fiat

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Authorization or sanction

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9
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Figment

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Something invented, made up, or fabricated

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10
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Garner

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To accumulate or collect something

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11
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Hallow

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To render holy by means of religious rites

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12
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Idiosyncrasy

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A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual

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13
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Ignominy

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Great personal dishonor or humiliation

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14
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Malediction

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A curse

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15
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Mundane

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Commonplace, ordinary

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16
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Nuance

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A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind

17
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Overweening

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Presumptuously arrogant , over bearing

18
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Penchant

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A strong liking

19
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Reputed

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Considered, presumed to be

20
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Sophistry

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Resorting sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive

21
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Sumptuous

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Rich and costly

22
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Ubiquitous

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Being everywhere.