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Vocab Editorial Flashcards

1
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Vicinity

A

Area, environment, proximity

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Futile

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Dispensable,non essential

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Bounteous

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Abundant, substantial, perpetual

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Emancipation

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Free, liberation

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Sycophant

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Chamcha,flatterer,cajolery, subservient

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Oligarchy

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Dominion over people,fascism, despotism

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Arbiter

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A person who settles a dispute

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Demure

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Shy,sly

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Proliferation

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Multiply,mushroom,thrive,burgeon

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Incarceration

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Imprisonment

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Recondite

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Obscure and little known

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Arsonist

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Person who starts a fire to destroy something

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Skirt

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Act dishonestly to gain benefit

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14
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Cajole

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Persuade someone to do something….or remind

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Pessimist

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A person who always believes that something wrong will happen to him

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Jaxatapose

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Comparing

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Inundated

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Overwhelmed

We have been overwhelmed with the complaints by the listeners

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Vagaries

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Sudden and astonishing change in something or someone

Vagaries in weather

19
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Roiling

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Irritate,agitate,niggling,quibbling,

20
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Subversion

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Undermine the authority of someone; (underscore)

21
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Debilitating

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Make someone weak or feeble

22
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Vocation

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Type of life that you live.

23
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Iconoclast

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A person who is a disbeliever of some idea.. revolting it

24
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Heretic

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Person whose religious beliefs are considered wrong

25
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poignant

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sad

26
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eponym

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e.g lake victoria after queeen victoria

27
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sobriquet

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e.g in college, she was the “sleeping beauty “…..nickname

28
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incorporeal

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intangible

29
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Clairvoyant

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a person who has special mental powers nd can see future

30
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paranoid

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silly suspicion

31
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delirium

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change in mental abilities

32
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barbaric

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cruel

33
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maneuver

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a movement that requires skill.

parking a car there would be such a tricky maneuver

34
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ingenuity

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cleverness

35
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Grotesque

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unusual or unlikely

36
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STATISM

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State centric governance

37
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Whataboutery

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counter accusation to an accusation

38
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chivalry

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polite behaviour showed by men towards women

39
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kinship

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members of the same family

40
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solidarity

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Support of one group to another group of people

41
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Arbitrarily

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by chance or manmani

42
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robust meaning

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strong or healthy

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