Vocab Editorial Flashcards

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Vicinity

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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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12
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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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16
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Jaxatapose

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Comparing

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17
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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

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Roiling

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Irritate,agitate,niggling,quibbling,

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Subversion

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Undermine the authority of someone; (underscore)

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Debilitating

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Make someone weak or feeble

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Vocation

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Type of life that you live.

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Iconoclast

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

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Heretic

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Person whose religious beliefs are considered wrong

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poignant
sad
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eponym
e.g lake victoria after queeen victoria
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sobriquet
e.g in college, she was the "sleeping beauty ".....nickname
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incorporeal
intangible
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Clairvoyant
a person who has special mental powers nd can see future
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paranoid
silly suspicion
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delirium
change in mental abilities
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barbaric
cruel
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maneuver
a movement that requires skill. parking a car there would be such a tricky maneuver
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ingenuity
cleverness
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Grotesque
unusual or unlikely
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STATISM
State centric governance
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Whataboutery
counter accusation to an accusation
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chivalry
polite behaviour showed by men towards women
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kinship
members of the same family
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solidarity
Support of one group to another group of people
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Arbitrarily
by chance or manmani
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robust meaning
strong or healthy