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Vocab list #1 Flashcards

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1
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To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, or responsibility

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Abdicate

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The act or condition of giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance

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Acquiescence

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Caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, and behavior

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Acrimonious

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Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time

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Anachronism

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Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless

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Audacious

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Bachelors degree; commencement church service

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Baccalaureate

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Senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense

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Balderdash

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Warlike; given to waging war

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Belligerent

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Characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings

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Benevolent

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Foolish, voluble talk

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Blather

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Apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; fault finding; difficult to please

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Captious

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A person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than they posses; fraud

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Charlatan

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A roundabout or indirect way of speaking

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Circumlocution

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Corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree

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Commensurate

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The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning

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Connotation

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A trifling away of time; dawdling

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Dalliance

17
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Weakened by old age; feeble; infirm

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Decrepit

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To think it appropriate to or in accordance with ones dignity

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Deign

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To trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially

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Delineate

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Lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere

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Disingenuous

21
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Selecting or choosing from various sources

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Eclectic

22
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Asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people

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Egalitarian

23
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Extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant

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Egregious

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To make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain

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Elucidate

25
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A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation

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Enigma

26
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Not meant to be taken seriously or literally

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Facetious

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Foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly

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Fatuous

28
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Ineffective; incompetent; futile

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Feckless

29
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Frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness

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Flippant

30
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Taken, done, used, surreptitiously or by stealth; secret

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Furtive

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