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Vocab Set 2 Flashcards

1
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Abnegation

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Self denial

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Abstruse

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Hard to grasp/understand

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Acrophobia

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Fear of heights

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Adroit

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Showing skill or resourcefulness

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Affable

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Friendly

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Androphobia

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Fear of men

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Aquiline

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Hooked, like an eagle

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Assuage

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To appease or pacify

Antonym: exacerbate

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Benison

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A spoken blessing

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Bifurcate

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Forked

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Brook

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To tolerate or put up with

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Cassock

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A loose robe worn by priests

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Cajole

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To coax

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Canonical

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Orthodox, authoritative

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Bathos

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Overdone pathos, anti climax

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Cavil

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To nitpick

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Chauvinism

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Excessive or blind patriotism

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Circumspect

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Cautious, considering all options

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Cognizant

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Observant

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Contentious

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Argumentative

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21
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Croupier

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Collector and payer of debts at a casino

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Dearth

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Severe shortage

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Deliquesce

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To dissolve, become soft especially with age

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Desiccate

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To dry out

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Dexterous

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Mentally skillful, artful or clever

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Diatribe

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A bitter denunciation

Antonym: panegyric

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27
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Diminution

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A decrease

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28
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Discourse

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Conversation

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Dissemble

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To pretend

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Dray

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A vehicle used to haul goods

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Efface

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To wear away, erase or remove

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Egress

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Exit, or to go out from

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33
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Endue

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To endow, provide

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34
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Equivocal

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Deliberately confusing, able to be interpreted in more than one way

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Excoriate

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To wear off the skin

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36
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Expunge

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To strike out or erase

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Factitious

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Artificial

Antonym: authentic

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Feckless

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Worthless, feeble

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39
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Fiduciary

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A trustee

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40
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Foible

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Minor flaw or weakness in a character

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Fractious

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Unruly, quarrelsome

42
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Frenetic

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Frantic, frenzied

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Fulsome

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Abundant, or morally offensive/disgusting

44
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Gamut

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Entire range

45
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Gauche

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Lacking social grace, awkward

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Gorgon

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One of three snake haired sisters whose glance turned the beholder into stone

47
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Harbinger

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Someone or something who foreshadows things to come

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Hirsute

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Hairy

Antonym: glabrous

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Hypocritical

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Pretending to have qualities or virtues that are not possessed

50
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Iconoclast

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One who destroys religious images or attacks beliefs

51
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Imbue

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To permeate or influence

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Impecunious

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Having little or no money

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Improvident

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Careless, not providing for the future

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Incarnadine

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Blood red

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Incommodious

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Troublesome

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Indemnify

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To secure against loss, to compensate for hurt or loss

57
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Insurgent

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Someone who rebels against established authority

58
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Intrepid

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Fearless

Antonym: timorous

59
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Jenny

A

Female donkey

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Junta

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Political group or committee, ESP after revolution

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Laconic

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Concise

Antonym: verbose, redundant

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Libertine

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A person not restrained by convention or morality

63
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Littoral

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Shore or coastal region

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Lucre

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Monetary gain, profit

65
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Lurid

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Gruesome, shocking, ghastly pale

66
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Malfeasance

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Wrongdoing, official misconduct

67
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Maudlin

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Foolishly sentimental or morose

68
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Mercurial

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Inconstant, quickly changing

69
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Mitigate

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To soften

70
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Napery

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Table linens

71
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Necropolis

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Cemetery

72
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Noisome

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Offensive, harmful

73
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Nugatory

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Inconsequential

74
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Obfuscate

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Confuse

Antonym: clarify

75
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Obloquy

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Abusive language or bad repute

76
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Ochlophobia

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Fear of crowds

77
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Oligarchy

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Form of government where control is placed in the hands of few - usually corrupt

78
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Onus

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Burden, obligation

79
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Osmosis

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To purify through a membrane

80
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Palliate

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To cover up with excuses

81
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Pariah

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Outcast

82
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Partisan

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One committed to a person, cause or idea

83
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Pedantic

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Characterised by an ostentatious display of learning

84
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Peripatetic

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Wandering

85
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Piscatorial

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Relating to fish

86
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Polemic

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Strong argument in refutation of another, practice of engaging in controversy

87
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Precipitous

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Steep

88
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Prevaricate

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Lie

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Prognosticate

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Forecast, prophesy

90
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Puce

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Dark red

91
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Purloin

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To steal

92
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Quaff

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To drink heartily

93
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Quisling

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Traitor

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Quotidian

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Daily

95
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Recidivism

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Repeated relapse, as in to repeat criminal activity

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Recusant

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Refusal to obey authority

97
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Reprobate

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Villain, immoral person

98
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Ribald

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Rude or offensive

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Sagacious

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Wise

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Sanguine

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Hopeful

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Scintilla

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Minute trace or jot, iota

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