Vocab Flashcards

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Abate

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Reduce or diminsh
ex)her stressover spending so much money on a house abated when the real estate broker told her about the property tax abatement

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Aberration, Anomaly

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Something that stands out or is abnormal
ex) the election of a liberal in the conservative county was an aberration (or anomaly) made possible only by the sudden..

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Accord

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Agreement

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Acquisitiviness

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Desire to acquire more especially an excessive desire

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Acreage

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Land measured in acres

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Advent

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Arrival

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Ambivalent

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uncertain

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Amoritize

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gradually pay off a dbet

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Analogous

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Correspoinding in a particular way

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Annual

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Cancel

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Annoint

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to rub or sprinkle on

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Antitthetical

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Totally opposed to; opposite

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13
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Arbiter

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Judge, umpire person empowered to decide matters on hand

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befall

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happen to

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belie

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contradict or misprepresent

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16
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benevolent

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expressing goodwill helping others or charity

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benign

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harmless, king or benificial, not cancerous

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blight

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disease that kills plants rapidly

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bolster

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strengthen

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Brook

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suffer or tolerate

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bygone

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past, former

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cannon

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body of accepted rules standards or artistic works.

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coalesce

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come together unite

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coercian

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force, use of pressure, threats etc

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cogent
very convincing logical
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copious
plentiful
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countenance
approve or tolerate
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debase
degrade lower in quality value rank
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delimit
mark fix or define boundary
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denote
be a name or symbol for
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deride
mock scoff at laugh at
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dichotomy
dvision into two parts or into contracdictory groups
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divest
deprive or strip of rank
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dovetail
join or fit together
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dubious
doubtful quesitonable
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eclectic
selecting the best of everything or coming from many diverse sources
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egalitarian
related to belief in the equality of all ppl
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enigma
puzzle myster riddle
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equitable
equal fair just
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erroneous
mistaken in error
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expediaent
suitable proper
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fledgling
new or inexperiencesd