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Vocab Review Flashcards

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Adorn (v)

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To make more beautiful or attractive

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Aesthetic (adj)

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Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty

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Allegory (n)

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A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

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Allure (n)

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The quality of being powerful and mysteriously attractive or fascinating

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Ambivalent (adj)

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Having mixed or contradictory feelings about something or someone

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Attribute (v)

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To regard as arising from a particular cause or source.

(N) a quality or feature regarded as ones characteristic

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Banal (adj)

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Devoid of freshness and originality

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Boon (n)

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A blessing given by a personage of power or rank

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Cavalier (adj)

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Showing a lack of proper concern in an offhand or haughty manner

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Circumvent (v)

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To go around or bypass

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Collective (adj)

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Forming a whole characteristic of a group

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Compensate (v)

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To make up for; to provide an equivalent; to counterbalance

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Composure (n)

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A calm and controlled state of mind

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Concoct (v)

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To prepare or make by combining ingredients

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Contempt (n)

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The feeling that a person or thing is worthless or beneath consideration

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Culminate (v)

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To reach the highest point; to end and come to a close

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Degenerate (v)

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To diminish in qualify; to deteriorate (n) a person who has declined from a standard norm

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Dismissive (adj)

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Indicating rejection or a lack of interest

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Disparate (adj)

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Distinct in kind; different

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Dissipate (v)

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To scatter or disperse; to spend wastefully or squander

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Dynamic (adj)

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Characterized by contact change, energy and effective action or progress

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Ebullient (adj)

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Overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement

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Effusive (adj)

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Unrestrained with feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval

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Derisive (adj)

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Contemptuous and mocking

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Disburse (v)

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To distribute or scatter; to pay out or expend

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Discern (v)

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To perceive or recognize something as distinct or different

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Disconcerting (adj)

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Disturbing to ones composure due to the confusion of unexpected nature of the situation

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Discourse (n)

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Communication of thoughts by words, typically of a serious topic

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Discrepancy (n)

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An instance of difference or inconsistency

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Emulate (v)

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To imitate in an effort to equal or surpass

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Equanimity (n)

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Mental calmness and composure especially under strain

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Ethereal (adj)

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Fleeting, temporary; delicate and refined; heavenly or celestial; relating to upper region of space

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Euphemism (n)

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Substitution of a mild or indirect word or expression for one considered too blunt or offensive

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Euphoric (adj)

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Intensely happy, excited, or confident

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Excoriate (v)

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To criticize in an extreme fashion

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Aemulari

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To rival or strive

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Aim

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Aether

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The upper pure, white, sky

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Aithein

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Aidh

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Eu

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Pheme

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Pherein

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Dis

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Apart or away

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Mittere

A

Send or let go

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Be

A

Pertaining to

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Supare

A

To throw or scatter

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Dynamis

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Effus

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To pour forth or spread abroad

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De

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Ridere

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Cernere

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Distinguish or separate

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Currere

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Crepare

A

Rattle or crack

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Com

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With, together

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Pen

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Pull, draw, stretch

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Pausare

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Cease, lay down

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Coquere

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Ad

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Tribuere

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Assign, give, bestow

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Bha

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Caballus

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Au

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To perceive

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Lure

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To call, invite

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Acclaim (v)

A

To praise enthusiastically and publicly, (n) enthusiastic and public praise

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