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Vocab Week 4 Flashcards

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Amorphous

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Lacking in shape

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Catharsis

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Purging of pent-up emotions

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Deter

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Put off; prevent

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Expedite

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Make faster

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Incarceration

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Putting in prison

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Machinations

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Plots and plans

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Overwrought

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Worked up; in an emotional state

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Preeminent

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Famous; outstanding

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Sardonic

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Mocking

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Unalloyed

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Undiluted; total

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Analgesic

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Medicine to combat pain

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12
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Caucus

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Type of private political meeting

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13
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Deteriorate

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Worsen; decline

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14
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Exposition

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Clear explanation

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15
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Incessant

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Without stopping

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Maelstrom

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Whirlpool; storm in the ocean

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Palatable

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Good to eat; agreeable

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18
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Prerogative

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Right or privilege

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Savant

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Person with knowledge

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Unctuous

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Oily; using excessive flattery

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21
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a - (an-)

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Not, without

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22
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Amphi -

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Both, on both sides of, around

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Anan - (an-)

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Up, back, again

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Anti - (ant -)

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Against, opposite

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Apo- (ap-)

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From, off

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Cata- (cat-)

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Down, against, very

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Dia- (di-)

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Through, across, between

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Alg-

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Pain

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Bi-

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Life

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Chron-

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Time

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D(a)emon-

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Spirit, evil spirit

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Ge-

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Earth

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Log-

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Speech, word, proportion, reasoning,

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Ly-

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To loosen

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Mne-

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To remember

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Pan(t)-

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All, every

37
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Pod-

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Foot

38
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The-

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God

39
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Troph-

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To nourish, grow

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Anonymous

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Without a name known

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Antacritic

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Not one who judges books, music,plays, etc. as for a newspaper

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Apostle

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Any of the disciples from Jesus esp. The original twelve

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Catastrophe

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Any very great and sudden disaster

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Aseptic

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Without disease-producing bacteria

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Antiseptic

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Preventing infection, decay, etc.; effective against bacteria, etc.

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Amphitheater

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A round or oval building with rising rows of seats around an open space

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Anesthetic

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A drug, gas, etc. used before surgery so a person is without pain

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Diameter

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A line segment passing through the center of a circle, sphere, etc. from one side to the other

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Amoral

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Without a moral sense

50
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Catapult

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A device for launching an object against something else

51
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Anarchy

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Without government

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Apocryphal

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Not genuine or authentic

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Analytical

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A breaking up of a whole into its parts to find out their nature

54
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Atrophy

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A wasting away or failure to grow especially of body tissue, an organ, etc.

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Amphibious

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An animal that can live or operate on land and in water

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Mnemonic

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Of or helping the memory

57
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Pantheon

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A temple for all the gods

58
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Anachronism

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Anything out of its proper historical time

59
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Pantomime

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A drama played without words, using only action and gestures

60
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Atheist

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A person who believes there is no God

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Antipodal

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Any two places directly opposite each other on the earth

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Analgesic

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A conscious state in which pain is not felt

63
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Analogy

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Similarity in some ways

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Antibiotics

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Any of a certain substances, as penicillin or streptomycin, produced by various organisms and capable of destroying or weakening bacteria, etc.

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Anatomy

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Dissection of an organism to study its structur

66
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Apotheosized

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Identifying a person as a god

67
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Catalytic

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A substance serving as the agent in a catalysis to speed up or sometimes slow down a chemical reaction

68
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Dialogue

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Interchange of ideas by open discussion

69
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Pandemonium

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Wild disorder or noise

70
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Amnesty

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A pardon especially for political offenses

71
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Apogees

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The point farthest from the earth in the orbit of a satellite

72
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Apogee

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The highest point

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