Vocabulary Flashcards
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Proviso
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Condition attached to a statement
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Archipelago
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Group of islands
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Gape
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Wide opening
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Callous
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Heartless
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Lampoon
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Sarcasm
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Lithe
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Thin, graceful
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Onus
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Burden
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Occult
A
Supernatural
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Somber
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Serious
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Tacit
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Understood
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Mettle
A
Spirit, Determination
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Pasty
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Pale looking
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Abet
A
Encourage to do something wrong
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Abovo
A
From the begging
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Abrade
A
Wear away from friction
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Elegy
A
Poem of serious reflection
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Egregious
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Outstandingly bad
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Effigy
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Sculpture of a person
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Febrile
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Symptoms of fever
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Perilous
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Full of risk
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Lark
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Songbird
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Acrid
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Bitter
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Indignation
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Anger
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Morsel
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Small amount of food
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Impudent
Not showing respect
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interminable
Endless
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Espionage
The use of spies
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Empirical
Based on experiments
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Superfluous
Unnecessary
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Simian
Relating to apes or monkeys
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Snivel
Cry
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Pathos
Quality that evokes pity
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Beseech
Ask someone to do something
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remonstrance
forceful reproachful protest
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Catechism
Summary of principles of christianism
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Persiflage
Banter
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Stratagem
Plan or scheme
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Gelatinous
having the consistency of jelly
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Delirium
Disturbed state of mind
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Lurid
Unpleasantly bright
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Harangue
Lengthy and aggressive speech
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Epithet
Word used to describe quality of a person
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Baker's dozen
13; not 12
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Sullied
Damage the purity or integrity
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Mucilage
A vicious secretion of bodily fluid
46
Vacillation
Inability to take a stand
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flogged
beat (someone) with a whip or stick as a punishment.
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Agress
to make the first attack
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Prowl
move about stealthily, in search of prey
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Inefectious
Liable to be transimitted to
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Fritter
Waste time on redundant activities, Fritter is always followed by away
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In lieu
Instead of
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Peruse
Read through
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APOPLECTIC
overcome with anger
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Indefensible
not able to be justified or defended
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Amity
a friendly relationship between people or countries
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Ambivalent
unsure
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Waylay
intercept (someone) in order to attack them.
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Dastardly
wicked and cruel
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Declamatory
expressing feelings or opinions in a strong way in a speech or a piece of writing
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Idee Fixe
an idea that dominates the mind, an observsion
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Immanent
present within or throughout
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Immure
hold captive, put under lock and key
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Avaricious
Extreme greed
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Irreconcilable
Point of view different from each other
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Servitude
The state of being a slave
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Cardinal
Fundamental
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Oligarchy
Small group of people having total power over a country
69
Emasculate
To lessen or take away the power
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Hitherto
Up to this moment
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Long-winded, circumlocutory
Using more words than necessary
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Abash
Embarrass
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Abate
Become less intense
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Abjure
Renounce upon oath
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Drivel
Nonsense
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Reverie
Daydream
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Abortive
describes an attempt or plan that you have to give up because it has failed(CALD)
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Abridge
Shorten
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Absolve
Forgive
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Abstruse
Hard to understand
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Abstruse
Hard to understand
