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Vocabulary Flashcards

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Melancholy

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A feeling of pensive sadness

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Playful

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Pleasantly humorous

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Discursive

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Passing aimlessly from one subject to another

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Poetic

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Possessing the qualities of a poem

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Diminutive

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Very small

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Propriety

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Correct behaviour

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Stridency

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Expressing yourself through aggression and determination

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Leery

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Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

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Languid

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Lacking spirit or liveliness
Very relaxed

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Dialectic

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Contradiction of ideas that determines their interaction

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Repute

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Held in high esteem and honor

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Nuance

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Subtle difference in meaning

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Impute

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Represent

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Onerous

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Burdensome or difficult to endure

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Dissent

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Difference of opinion

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Construe

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Make sense of

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Volition

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Making a choice

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Effusion

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Unrestrained expression of emotion

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Implicit

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Suggested though not directly expressed

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Impetus

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A force that makes something happen

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Quandary

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State of uncertainty in a choice between unfavourable options

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Tumult

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State of commotion, noise and confusion

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Harangue

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Lengthy and aggressive speech

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Facetious

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Treating serious issues with inappropriate humour

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Cataclysmic

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Severely destructive

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Posterity

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All future generations

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Apartheid

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Social policy of racial segregation

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Wanton

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Lewd or immoral person

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Macabre

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Shockingly repellent, inspiring horror

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Cabalistic

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Having a secret or hidden meaning

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Inherent

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Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic

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32
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Credulity

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Tendency to believe readily

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Enigmatical

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Not clear to the understanding

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Alacrity

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liveliness and eagerness

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Impasse

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Situation in which no progress can be made

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Spurious

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Plausible but false

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Salacious

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Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

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Inadvertently

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Without knowledge or intention

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39
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Vindictive

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Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge

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Sanctimonious

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Excessively or hypocritically pious (religious)

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Prowess

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Superior skill learned by study and practice

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Laudable

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Worthy of high praise

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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance

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Plangent

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Loud and resounding, often in a mournful way

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Inordinately

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Levity

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A manner lacking seriousness

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Reproach

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Express criticism towards

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Wistful

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Showing pensive sadness

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Supercilious

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Having or showing arrogant superiority

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Languid

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Lacking spirit or liveliness

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Fervent

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Characterised by intense emotion

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Abjectly

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In a hopeless resigned manner

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Untenable

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Incapable of being defended or justified

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Paucity

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Insufficient quantity or number

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Profligate

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Unrestrained by convention or morality

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Aberration

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State or condition markedly different from the norm

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Callow

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Young and inexperienced

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Exorbitance

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Extreme excess

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Dolorous

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Showing sorrow

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Precarious

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Not secure, beset with difficulties

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Frenetic

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Fast and energetic in an uncontrolled or wild way

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Censure

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Harsh criticism or disapproval

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Rancour

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Feeling of deep and bitter anger

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Incense

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Make furious

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Pernicious

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Exceedingly harmful

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Promulgate

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State or announce

67
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Capitalism

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Economic system based on private ownership of assets

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Socialism

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Political theory advocating state ownership of industry

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Illustrious

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Widely known and esteemed

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Precipitously

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Eschew

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Avoid and stay away from deliberately

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Impertinent

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Improperly forward or bold

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Unfettered

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Not bound or restrained

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Impetus

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A force that makes something happen

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Reticence

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Being uncommunicative

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Indolent

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Disinclined to work

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Pasquinade

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Composition that humorously imitates somebody’s style

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Superfluous

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More than is needed, desired or required

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Prevaricate / Equivocate

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Deliberately ambiguous or unclear

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Espouse

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Choose and follow a theory

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Anachronistic

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Chronologically misplaced

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Insouciance

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Casual or lighthearted feeling of unconcern

83
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Clemency

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Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders

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Egregious

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Conspicuously and outrageously bad

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Inexorable

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Impossible to prevent

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Aberrant

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Markedly different from an accepted norm

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Milieu

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A person’s social environment

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Innocuous

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Not injurious to physical or mental health

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Archetypal

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Typical of a certain kind of person or thing

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Dualistic

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Two contrasting realities, of dual nature (good and evil)

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Contemporaneously

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Existing, occurring or originating during the same time

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Trite

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Lacking originality or freshness

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Haptics

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Stimulating the senes of touch and motion

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Kinesics

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Study of body movements and gestures

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Paralinguistics

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Aspects of spoken communication that do not involve words (tone, voice, pitch)

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Proxemics

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Knowledge dealing with amount of space people feel is necessary between them and others

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Process

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Temporal or time orientation, marked by complexity

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Matrix

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Multiple chains of communication through one person

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Linear

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Unidirectional, one way, irreversible

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Network

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Numerous connections from different sources, multiple inputs and outputs

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Conflation

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Merging of two or more sets of information

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Pathos / Logos / Ethos

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Pathos: Emotions
Logos: Reason / Logic
Ethos: Status / Authority

GAMSAT Vocab (3 decks)

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