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Vocabulary #2 Flashcards

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Inexorable

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Not to be persuaded or moved // Unyielding, unalterable

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Illimitable

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Limitless

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Eldritch

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Eerie, spooky

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Amorphous

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Lacking definitive form, having no specific shape

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Impious

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Not religious, lacking reverence for god

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Musing

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Absorbed in thought, meditative

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Macabre

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Gruesome and horrifying

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Idyllic

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Charmingly simple // A poem of prose composition

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Primordial

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Constituting a beginning // Pertaining to something that was there from the start

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Indubitable

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That cannot be doubted, unquestionable

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Docility

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Easily managed or handled, readily trained or taught.

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Autocratic

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Government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others

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Pallid

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Pale, faint // Lacking in vitality or interest

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Incipient

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Beginning to exist or appear in an initial stage

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Beseechingly

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To implore urgently

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Sanctity

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Holiness, saintliness, godliness

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Allusion

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A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication

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Martyrdom

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Extreme suffering // A person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his religion

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Sordid

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Meaningly selfish // Dirty or filthy // Morally low or vile

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Tempest

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A violent windstorm, especially one with rain, hail or snow // A violent commotion

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Fickle

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Likely to change, casually changeable // Not constant or loyal in affections

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Bathos

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A ludicrous descent from the exalted (high place); anticlimax

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Epitaph

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A commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site

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Bequeath

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To dispose of by last will // To hand down

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Diatribe

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A bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack or criticism

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Futile

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Incapable of producing any result, ineffective, useless, not successful

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Frivolous

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Characterised by lack of sense or seriousness // Unconcerned about or lacking serious purpose

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Catharsis

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The purging of emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through kinds of art, tragedy or music

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Enumeration

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The act of mentioning separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify

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Inane

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Lacking sense, significance or ideas // Empty; void

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Excoriating

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To denounce or berate severely // To strip the skin from something

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Incisive

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Penetrating // Remarkably clear and direct

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Esoteric

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Understood by only a select few who have knowledge or interest

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Ebullient

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Overflowing with fervour, enthusiasm or excitement

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Emulous

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The effort or desire to equal or excel others

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Gallantries

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Dashing courage, heroic bravery

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Roistering

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To act in a swaggering, boisterous manner

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Vain

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Excessively proud or concerned about one’s own appearance, qualities or achievements

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Hapless

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Unlucky, luckless

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Ingenuous

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Free from reserve or restraint; candid, severe

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Pomposity

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The quality of being pompous; an ostentatious display of dignity or importance

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Insipid

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Without distinctive, interesting or stimulating qualities; bland

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Prosody

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The science or study of poetic meters and versification

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Perverse

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Wilfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contradictory

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Veritable

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Being truly or very much so

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Pathos

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The quality or power in actual life experience or in literature, music or art to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathy

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Erudition

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Knowledge acquired by study or research

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Surfeit

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An excessive amount

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Pestilence

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A deadly or highly infective epidemic disease

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Panegyric

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A lofty public speech writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy

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