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Vocab 7 Flashcards

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porking

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To engage in sexual intercourse with (another). Used especially of a man.

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Ugandan Discussion

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A euphemism for intercourse cus the queen was “talking about Uganda” while they were supposed to be on a business trip

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(King) Cobra Clutch

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An incredibly tight headlock/grip. Signature move of Shinjiro Otani in wrestling.

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Old petroleum

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Slang for “Olde English 800” which is a brand of Malt.

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Off the wall

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  1. eccentric or unconventional.
    “a zany, wacky, off-the-wall weirdo”
  2. (of an accusation) without basis or foundation.
  3. (of a person) angry.
    “the president was off the wall about the article”
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paralipsis

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the device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing about a subject, as in not to mention their unpaid debts of several million.

eg: I would never tell everyone you use to drink toilet paper in the 6th grade

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Lateral Passing

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A backwards pass in football

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Par

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  1. the number of strokes a first-class golf player should normally require for a particular hole or course

phrases:
1. Par for the course
what is normal or expected in any given circumstances.
predictable

  1. Subpar, On par, up-par (you can use any adverb rly)
  2. a paragraph.
    “fifteen pars on the front page”
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para-

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A suffix that changes words’ character

  1. beside; adjacent to.
    “parataxis”
  2. denoting a disordered function or faculty.
    “paresthesia”
  3. distinct from, but analogous to.
    “paramilitary”

beyond.
4. “paradox”

  1. subsidiary; assisting.
    “paramedic”
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chauvinist

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a person displaying excessive or prejudiced support for their own cause or group, in particular a man prejudiced against women.

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skata

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  1. an ill-tempered or unsympathetic woman, especially a middle-aged one; a shrew
  2. poop in greek
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stog

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be stuck or bogged down.

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a-go

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on the move
The plan is a-go

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Oratory

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  1. a small chapel, especially for private worship.
  2. (in the Roman Catholic Church) a society of priests without vows, especially the Oratory of St. Philip Neri founded in 1564.
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Sheetrock

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a type of plasterboard made of gypsum layered between sheets of heavy paper.

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Krills

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  1. Crack cocaine; Specifically, individual crack rocks.
  2. One that is indie or a hipster.
    “That coffee shop is full of krill.”
  3. The act of standing in an area with a large amount of women passing through and hitting on as many as possible in a short period of time

4.

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Dunny

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an outside privy; outhouse

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Privy

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  1. sharing in the knowledge of (something secret or private).
    “he was no longer privy to her innermost thoughts”
  2. hidden; secret.
    “a privy place”
  3. a toilet located in a small shed outside a house or other building; an outhouse.
  4. a person having a part or interest in any action, matter, or thing.
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elusive

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difficult to find, catch, understand, or achieve
“success will become ever more elusive”

difficult to remember or recall.
“the elusive thought he had had moments before”

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Illusive

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deceptive; illusory.
“that illusive haven”

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stoop

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  1. a posture in which the head and shoulders are habitually bent forward.
    “a tall, thin man with a stoop”
  2. a porch with steps in front of a house or other building.
  3. lower one’s moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible.
    “Craig wouldn’t stoop to thieving”
  4. condescend to do something.
    “the princes now and then stooped to pay a nominal homage”
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stoup

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a flagon or beaker for drink.
“the jailer returned and left a stoup of water”

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flagon

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a large container in which drink is served, typically with a handle and spout.
“there was a flagon of beer in his vast fist”

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contagion

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  1. the spreading of a harmful idea, disease or practice.
    “the contagion of disgrace”
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haply

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by chance, luck, or accident

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malign

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speak about (someone) in a spitefully critical manner.
“don’t you dare malign her in my presence”

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secular

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  1. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
    “secular buildings”
  2. (of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period.
    “there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular”
  3. of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets.
  4. occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome).
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apothecary

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  1. a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs.
    “eventually he became an apothecary, which allowed him to pursue his interest in chemistry”
29
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virtue

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  1. a good or useful quality of a thing.
    “Mike was extolling the virtues of the car”
  2. virginity or chastity, especially of a woman.

Phrases:
1. derive benefit or advantage from submitting to (an unwelcome obligation or unavoidable circumstance).

  1. because or as a result of.
    “they achieved pre-eminence by virtue of superior military strength”
30
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extol

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praise enthusiastically.
“he extolled the virtues of the Russian peoples”

31
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vice

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  1. immoral or wicked behavior.
    “an open sewer of vice and crime”
  2. as a substitute for.
    “the letter was drafted by David Hunt, vice the ill Jacob
  3. acting as deputy or substitute for; next in rank.
    “vice-consul”
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Vise

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  1. a metal tool with movable jaws that are used to hold an object firmly in place while work is done on it, typically attached to a workbench.
    (the clamp for a microphone stand)
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writ

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  1. wrote

2.

34
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forceps

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a pair of pincers or tweezers used in surgery or in a laboratory.

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Pollo

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  1. a laborer who pays to be smuggled or guided over the border into the U.S. illegally.
  2. chicken (as used in the names of Italian, Spanish, or Mexican dishes).
    “pollo andaluza, a sweet dish consisting of boneless chicken sautéed in white wine and butter”
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Jekyll

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someone who is sometimes good and pleasant and sometimes very rude or bad. He’s a real Jekyll and Hyde who can become violent without warning.

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lear

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  1. King Lear, the hero of William Shakespeare’s tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
  2. Something learned; a lesson
38
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Limerick

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a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.

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blacktop

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a road or area surfaced with asphalt or other black material.
plural noun: blacktops
“playing hopscotch on the blacktop behind the school”

40
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Metacarpal

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any of the five bones of the hand.
any of the bones in an animal’s forelimb equivalent to the metacarpals.

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Cannon Bone

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a bone in hoofed mammals that extends from the knee or hock to the fetlock

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Fetlock

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the joint of a horse’s or other quadruped’s leg between the cannon bone and the pastern.

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Hock

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  1. a knuckle of meat, especially of pork or ham
  2. in debt.
    “the company is in hock to the banks”
  3. in hock — having been pawned.
    “the family jewels are in hock already”
  4. the joint in a quadruped’s hind leg between the knee and the fetlock, the angle of which points backward.
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Knuckle

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  1. a part of a finger at a joint where the bone is near the surface, especially where the finger joins the hand.
  2. a cut of meat consisting of an animal’s knuckle together with the adjoining parts.
    “a knuckle of pork”

Phrases:
Knuckle down: apply oneself seriously to a task.
“the sailors knuckled down when there was work to be done”

Knuckle under: submit to someone else’s authority.
“he is admired for his refusal to knuckle under”

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Hooptie

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An old, worn-out car; a clunker, a banger

46
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Piff

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good or attractive (UK Slang)

47
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Auschwitz

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a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland

48
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permutation

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  1. a way, especially one of several possible variations, in which a set or number of things can be ordered or arranged.
  2. the action of changing the arrangement, especially the linear order, of a set of items.

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