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Vocabulary Flashcards

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Chimerical

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Imaginary or unreal

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Cavalier

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1) horseman, knight, or aristocrat

2) to be proud or careless; having no concern for important or serious matters

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Choleric

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Irritable; made angry easily

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Melancholy

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1) sad mood

2) black bile

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Phlegmatic

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Not easily upset, excited, or angered; apathetic or impassive; emotionless

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Stoic

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A person who accepts what happens without complaining or showing emotion

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Sanguine

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Excessive cheerfulness; optimistic; confident and hopeful

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Juggernaut

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Something that is extremely large and powerful and cannot be stopped

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Maudlin

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Showing or expressing too much emotion especially in a foolish or annoying way

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Behemoth

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Something very big and powerful

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Gargantuan

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Very large in size or amount

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Meretricious

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Attractive in a cheap or false way; relating to prostitution

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Ostracism

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Exclusion or temporary banishment by general consent from common privileges or social acceptance

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Laconic/Spartan

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Using few words in speech or writing; marked by simplicity, frugality, or avoidance of luxury and comfort

Synonyms: curt & austere

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Sybaritic

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Self-indulging; devotion to luxury and pleasure

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Serendipity

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Making valuable or pleasant discoveries by accident or unintentionally

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Cherubic

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Angelic; having a plump, pretty innocence

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Masochist

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A person who enjoys or gets pleasure from being abused or hurt

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Pariah

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Person who is hated and rejected by other people

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Posh

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Very attractive, expensive, and popular; elegant; fashionable; typical of or intended for the upper class

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Quixotic

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To be hopeful or romantic in a way that is not practical

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Utopia

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An imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect; perfect society

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Circumnavigate

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To travel all the way around in a ship, airplane, etc.

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Antecedent

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Something that came before something else and may have influenced or caused it; a preceding event or cause

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Animate

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Having life; to be alive or living

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Unanimous

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Agreed to by everyone

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Nonentity

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1) Person who is not famous or important

2) something or someone that does not exist, exists only in the imagination, or of little significance

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Egregious

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Very bad and easily noticed; something that stands out by being conspicuously bad

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Agnostic

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1) A person who does not have a definite belief about whether god exists or not
2) A person who is unwilling to commit to an opinion about something

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Belligerent

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1) angry and aggressive feeling; hostile; showing readiness to fight
2) waging war; engaged in a war

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Bellicose

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Having or showing a tendency to argue or fight

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Antebellum

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Existing before a war, especially before the American Civil War

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Belladonna

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A poisonous plant that has reddish bell-shaped flowers

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Democracy

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A government by the people through rule of the majority; organization where everyone is treated equally and has equal rights

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Demographic

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Of or relating to the study of changes that occur in large groups of people over a period of time

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Demagogue

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A leader who tries to get support by making false claims and promises and using arguments based on emotion rather than reason

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Demolition

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1) deliberate destruction of a building or other structure

2) destruction in war by means of explosives

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Antacid

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An agent or medicine that prevents or lessens the pain caused by having too much acid in your stomach by neutralizing the acidity

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Antiperspirant

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A substance that is used to prevent sweating

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Antiquity

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1) ancient times
2) of very great age
3) relics or monuments from ancient times

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Anticipate

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To look forward to something; to think of in advance; to foresee and deal with in advance

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Homicide

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The act of killing another person

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Homogenize

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To blend into a uniform mixture; to change something so that its parts are the same or similar

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Homonym

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A word that is spelled and pronounced like another word but is different in meaning

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Homosexual

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To be sexually attracted to people of the same sex

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Perfidy

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The act of betraying someone or something; the state of being disloyal; treachery

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Perimeter

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The boundary or outside edge of a closed figure, area, or surface

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Permanent

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Lasting or continuing for a very long time or forever; stable

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Perambulate

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To stroll; to travel over or through especially on foot; to make an official inspection of a boundary on foot

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Inanimate

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Not living; not capable of life

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Invisible

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Incapable by nature of being seen

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Inadvisable

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Not wise, sensible, or reasonable

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Inexorable

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Not able to be stopped, persuaded, moved, or changed

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Platitude

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A statement that expresses an idea that is not new; a banal, trite, or stale remark

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Trite

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Not fresh, original, or effective from being used too often; hackneyed

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Seraphic

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To be like or resembling a celestial being

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Depot

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1) train or bus station
2) place where military supplies are kept or where soldiers are trained
3) place where goods or motor vehicles are stored

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Lucidity

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Clearness of thought or style; a presumed capacity to perceive the truth directly and instantaneously; clarity

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Clairvoyance

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Ability to perceive matters beyond the range of ordinary perception or not present to the senses

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Foal

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A young horse

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Bewilder

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To confuse someone very much; to perplex or confuse by a complexity, variety, or multitude of objects or considerations; puzzle

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Misguided

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Having wrong or improper goals or values; led or prompted by wrong or inappropriate motives or ideals

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Elusive

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1) hard to find or capture

2) hard to understand, define, or remember

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Controversial

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Relating to or causing much discussion, disagreement, or argument

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Conventional

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Used and accepted by most people; usual or traditional; common and ordinary

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Upsurge

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A rapid or sudden increase or rise

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Permissive

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Giving people a lot of freedom or too much freedom to do what they what to do; indulgent, lax, or tending to grant permission

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Immorality

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The state of being not morally good or right, thus conflicting with generally or traditionally held moral principles

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Succinct

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Using few words to state or express an idea without including extra or unnecessary information; concise

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Verbose

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Using more words than are needed; wordy

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Cynic

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A person who has negative opinions about the things people do; a person who believes that people are selfish and are only interested in helping themselves

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Impartial

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Treating all people and groups equally; not partial or biased; fair

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Apocryphal

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Well-known but probably not true; of doubtful authenticity; fictitious

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Hackneyed

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Lacking freshness or originality due to being used too often

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