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Vocabularies From Practices (August/September) Flashcards

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Serendipity

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NOUN

1: the unexpected occurrence of or faculty for finding valuable or agreeable things that are not sought

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Chafe

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VERB
1: IRRITATE, VEX
2: to warm by rubbing especially with the hands
3: to rub so as to wear away : ABRADE.
4: to make sore by or as if by rubbing
5: to feel irritation, discontent, or impatience : FRET
NOUN
1: a state of vexation : RAGE
2: injury or wear caused by friction, also : FRICTION, RUBBING

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Jarring

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ADJ

1: having a harshly concussive, disagreeable, or discordant effect

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Prodigious

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ADJ

1: causing amazement or wonder
2: extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree : ENORMOUS
3: resembling or befitting a prodigy : STRANGE, UNUSUAL
4: obsolete : being an omen : PORTENTOUS

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Gloat

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VERB
1: to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight
Example: gloat over an enemy’s misfortune
2: obsolete : to look or glance admiringly or amorously

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Tepid

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ADJ

1: moderately warm : LUKEWARM
2: lacking in passion, force, or zest
3: marked by an absence of enthusiasm or conviction

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Consign

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VERB
1: to give over to another’s care
2: to give, transfer, or deliver into the hands or control of another, also to commit especially to a final destination or fate
Example: a writer consigned to oblivion ; consign a body to the grave
3: to send or address to an agent to be cared for or sold
4: obsolete : AGREE, SUBMIT

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Modicum

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NOUN

1: a small portion ; a limited quantity

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Short Shrift

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PHRASE
1: barely adequate time for confession before execution
2: little or no attention or consideration
Example: gave the problem short shrift
3: quick work — usually used in the phrase make short shrift of

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Transmute

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VERB

1: to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form
2: to subject (something, such as an element) to transmutation

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Undue

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ADJ

1: not due ; not yet payable
2: exceeding or violating propriety or fitness : EXCESSIVE

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Fouling

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NOUN
1: DEPOSIT, INCRUSTATION

*Fouling up:
1: to make dirty : CONTAMINATE
2: to spoil by making mistakes or using poor judgment : CONFUSE
3: ENTANGLE, BLOCK
Example: fouled up communications

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Fatuous

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ADJ

1: complacently or inanely foolish : SILLY

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Depravity

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NOUN

1: a corrupt act or practice
2: the quality or state of being corrupt, evil, or perverted : the quality or state of being depraved

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Demolish

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VERB
1: TEAR DOWN, RAZE
2: to break to pieces : SMASH
3: to do away with : DESTROY
Example: demolish any chance of restoring her declining career
4: to strip of any pretense of merit or credence

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Marshal

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NOUN
1: a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces
2: the administrative head of a city police department or fire department
VERB
1: to place in proper rank or position
2: to bring together and order in an appropriate or effective way
Example: marshal arguments/thoughts
3: to lead ceremoniously or solicitously : USHER
Example: marshaling her little group of children down the street
4: to take form or order
Example: ideas marshaling neatly

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Litany

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NOUN
1: a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation
2: a resonant or repetitive chant
Example: a litany of cheering phrases
3: a usually lengthy recitation or enumeration
Example: a familiar litany of complaints
4: a sizable series or set
Example: a litany of problems
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Insouciance

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NOUN

1: lighthearted unconcern : NONCHALANCE

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Assemblage

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NOUN

1: a collection of persons or things : GATHERING
2: the act of assembling : the state of being assembled
3: an artistic composition made from scraps, junk, and odds and ends (as of paper, cloth, wood, stone, or metal)
4: the art of making assemblages

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Extirpate

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VERB

1: to destroy completely : WIPE OUT
2: to pull up by the root
3: to cut out by surgery

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Gridlock

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NOUN
1: a traffic jam in which a grid of intersecting streets is so completely congested that no vehicular movement is possible
2: a situation resembling gridlock (as in congestion or lack of movement)
Example: political gridlock
VERB
1: to cause to be in a state or situation in which movement or progress is stopped completely : to produce gridlock in or of
Example: streets gridlocked by heavy traffic; a government gridlocked by partisan rancor
2: to experience gridlock

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Hone

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VERB
1: to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone
2: to make more acute, intense, or effective : WHET
3: dialect : YEARN —often used with for or after
4: dialect : GRUMBLE, MOAN
NOUN
1: WHETSTONE

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Freelance

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NOUN
1: a mercenary soldier especially of the Middle Ages : CONDOTTIERE
2: a person who acts independently without being affiliated with or authorized by an organization
ADJ
1: of, relating to, or being a freelance : INDEPENDENT
2: done by a freelance
Example: freelance reviewing
2: not sponsored by an organization
VERB
1: to act or work as a freelance

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Prescience

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NOUN

1: foreknowledge of events: divine omniscience
2: human anticipation of the course of events : FORESIGHT

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Recondite

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ADJ

1: difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : DEEP
2: of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure
3: hidden from sight : CONCEALED

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Febrile

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ADJ

1: marked or caused by fever : FEVERISH

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Slink

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ADJ
1: to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : STEAL
2: to move in a sinuous provocative manner
3: to give premature birth to —used especially of a domestic animal
NOUN
1: the young of an animal (such as a calf) brought forth prematurely
ADJ
1: born prematurely or abortively

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Marshal

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NOUN
1: a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces
2: the administrative head of a city police department or fire department
VERB
1: to place in proper rank or position
2: to bring together and order in an appropriate or effective way
Example: marshal arguments/thoughts
3: to lead ceremoniously or solicitously : USHER
Example: marshaling her little group of children down the street
4: to take form or order
Example: ideas marshaling neatly

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Litany

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NOUN
1: a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation
2: a resonant or repetitive chant
Example: a litany of cheering phrases
3: a usually lengthy recitation or enumeration
Example: a familiar litany of complaints
4: a sizable series or set
Example: a litany of problems
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Insouciance

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NOUN

1: lighthearted unconcern : NONCHALANCE

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Assemblage

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NOUN

1: a collection of persons or things : GATHERING
2: the act of assembling : the state of being assembled
3: an artistic composition made from scraps, junk, and odds and ends (as of paper, cloth, wood, stone, or metal)
4: the art of making assemblages

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Extirpate

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VERB

1: to destroy completely : WIPE OUT
2: to pull up by the root
3: to cut out by surgery

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Gridlock

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NOUN
1: a traffic jam in which a grid of intersecting streets is so completely congested that no vehicular movement is possible
2: a situation resembling gridlock (as in congestion or lack of movement)
Example: political gridlock
VERB
1: to cause to be in a state or situation in which movement or progress is stopped completely : to produce gridlock in or of
Example: streets gridlocked by heavy traffic; a government gridlocked by partisan rancor
2: to experience gridlock

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Hone

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VERB
1: to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone
2: to make more acute, intense, or effective : WHET
3: dialect : YEARN —often used with for or after
4: dialect : GRUMBLE, MOAN
NOUN
1: WHETSTONE

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Freelance

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NOUN
1: a mercenary soldier especially of the Middle Ages : CONDOTTIERE
2: a person who acts independently without being affiliated with or authorized by an organization
ADJ
1: of, relating to, or being a freelance : INDEPENDENT
2: done by a freelance
Example: freelance reviewing
2: not sponsored by an organization
VERB
1: to act or work as a freelance

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Prescience

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NOUN

1: foreknowledge of events: divine omniscience
2: human anticipation of the course of events : FORESIGHT

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Recondite

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ADJ

1: difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : DEEP
2: of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure
3: hidden from sight : CONCEALED

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Febrile

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ADJ

1: marked or caused by fever : FEVERISH

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Slink

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ADJ
1: to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : STEAL
2: to move in a sinuous provocative manner
3: to give premature birth to —used especially of a domestic animal
NOUN
1: the young of an animal (such as a calf) brought forth prematurely
ADJ
1: born prematurely or abortively

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