Vocabulary and Commas Flashcards
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Immaculate
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Perfectly clean
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Gloat
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To feel or express delight or self-satisfaction.
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Curtail
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Cut short or reduce.
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Covert
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Secret
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Demise
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Death
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Lucrative
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Profitable, well-paying
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Mandatory
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Required
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Quest
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A search, pursuit
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Contemporary
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Modern, up-to-date
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Qualm
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An uneasy feeling about how right proper a particular is..
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Garble
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To mix up or confuse (as a story or message); scramble.
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Blight
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Something that weakens, damages or destroys.
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Plagiarism
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Using someone else’s writing or ideas as one’s own
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Contrive
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Plan cleverly ; think up
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Retaliate
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To return an injury for an injury, payback; revenge
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Blatant
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Very obvious ; often offensively so
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Gaunt
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Thin and bony
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Squander
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To waste ; spend or use foolishly
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Incentive
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Something that moves one to take action or work harder ; a motivation
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Disgress
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To go off subject. To turn aside, or stray, especially from the main topic in speaking of writing.
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Rigor
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A great hardship or difficulty ; harshness ; severity
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Devastate
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To upset deeply ; overwhelm
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Succumb
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To give in ; stop resisting
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Indispensable
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Necessary
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Incorporate
To unite into a single whole ; combine
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Intermittent
Starting and stopping from time to time ; off-and-on
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Cynic
A person who believes the worst of people's behavior motives ; someone who believes people are motivated only by selfishness
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Intrinsic
Fundamental. Belonging to a person or thing by it's very nature (and thus not dependent on circumstances); built-in.
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Infamous
Having a very bad reputation ; widely known for being vicious, criminal, or deserving of contempt
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Benefactor
A person or organization that gives help, especially financial aid
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Virile
Manly ; masculine
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Speculate
To guess. To come up with ideas or theories about a subject ; theorize
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Alleviate
To relieve ; make easier to endure
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Revulsion
Hatred, great disgust or distaste.
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Aspire
To strongly desire; to be ambitious (to do something or to get something).
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Deficit
A shortage ; a lack (in amount)
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Abstain
To hold oneself back from something ; refrain
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Benevolent
Showing kindness ; charitable
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Agnostic
A person who believes we cannot know wether or not there is a god
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Diversion
An amusement or pastime ; anything that relaxes or amuses
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Affiliate
To associate ; join
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Dissent
Opposition or disagreement
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Conversely
In an opposite manner; in an altogether different way. In contrast
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Charisma
The quality of a leader which captures great popular devotion ; personal appeal; charm
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Prevalent
Widespread; common
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Contend
To state to be so; claim; affirm; to declare
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Proponent
Someone who supports a cause
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Poignant
Emotionally moving; touching
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Traumatic
Causing painful emotion, with possible long-lasting psychological effects
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Extrovert
An outgoing, sociable person
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Phrase with qualm
He had no qualms about having kids
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Phrase with garble
The teacher garbled the student papers, so no one had they're paper.
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Phrase with gloat
After their Olympic win, they gloated to the losing team.
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Phrase with blight
Atomic bombs is a blight in war.
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Phrase with plagiarism
Charlotte was accused of plagiarism on her paper on World War II.
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Phrase with contrive
The class contrived a way to get more time to study for their exam.
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Phrase with mandatory
Uniforms are mandatory on school territory.
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Phrase with retaliate
When Jackie stole Marjorie's lunchbox, she retaliated by stealing her pencil case.
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Phrase with blatant
It was blatant that the student did not study for the test.
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Phrase with immaculate
Lories locker was immaculate.
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Phrase with gaunt
Eating disorders can lead to a gaunt body.
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Phrase with squander
He squandered his time by trying to throw spitballs at his teachers.
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Phrase with curtail
I have to curtail my time watching T.V shows to study more.
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Phrase with incentive
Summer is my incentive to finish the school year.
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Phrase with disgress
I digressed in my essay and in consequence, I failed
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Phrase with rigor
The rigor of having three kids can cause anxiety attacks.
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Phrase with devastate
My sister was devastated to know that there was not going to be an 11th season of her favorite T.V show.
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Phrase with succumb
Nathalie succumbed to her children's begging and bought them ice cream.
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Phrase with indispensable
It is indispensable to have a pen for the final exam.
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Phrase with incorporate
The restaurant incorporated Chinese meals in their menu.
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Intermittent
Intermittent studying will not get you good grades.
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Phrase with covert
The society is so covert, that only ten people knows it exists.
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Phrase with cynic
My brother is cynic, since he almost drowned and no one helped him.
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Phrase with intrinsic
Concentration is intrinsic to good studying.
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Phrase with infamous
George is infamous since he was seen pushing someone out of a car.
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Phrase with benefactor
UNICEF is a benefactor for people in underdeveloped countries.
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Phrase with virile
His mustache makes him look virile.
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Phrase with demise
Drugs caused the demise of multiple people.
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Phrase with speculate
Conspiracy groups often speculate about the alien race.
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Phrase with alleviate
To alleviate his pain of his broken leg, he took medication.
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Phrase with revulsion
I feel great revulsion for cheaters.
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Phrase with aspire
There is a lot of aspiring actresses in Los Angeles.
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Phrase with lucrative
The mans goal was not to create a lucrative business, but one who could help the people.
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Phrase with deficit
There is a deficit of apples, so you can buy maximum five per person.
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Phrase with abstain
I abstained myself from pointing out the errors in my friends text to not upset him.
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Phrase with benevolent
People who are benevolent have a better self esteem.
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Phrase with agnostic
My family are believers, but I'm agnostic
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Phrase with diversion
You need a diversion from your schoolwork.
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Phrase with affiliate
She affiliated her self with a big company to have better publicity.
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Phrase with dissent
Her mother expressed dissent on the length of her skirt.
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Phrase with conversely
Mia likes cats. Conversely, Jake loves dogs.
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Phrase with charisma
Because of is charisma he won the school election.
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Phrase with quest
We are on a quest to finding a time machine.
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Phrase with prevalent
iPhones are prevalent in our society.
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Phrase with contend
He contented that Julia was at practice Monday.
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Phrase with contemporary
Jules likes apartment which are more contemporary.
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Phrase with proponent
Celia is a proponent against animal cruelty.
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Phrase with poignant
Michael made a poignant speech of how he would bring back his dad if he could.
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Phrase with traumatic
Getting hit by a car is a traumatic event.
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Phrase with extrovert
Performers are usually extrovert people.
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What Is a dependent clause?
The groups of word that can't stand on his own.
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What is an Independent clause?
The group of words that can be an ok grammatical phrase.
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What is a comma splice?
A phrase with two independents clauses separated by a comma.
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What is a coordinating junction?
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When you connect two independents clauses you have to put a coordinating junction.
For
And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So
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Why is there a comma in this sentence: To get a good grade, you must complete all your assignments.
You have to use a comma after an introductory phrase, prepositional phrase, or dependent clause.
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Where to we put commas?
1. Use a comma after an introductory phrase, prepositional phrase, and dependent clause.
2. Use a comma to separate element in a series.
3. Use a comma to separate nonessential elements from a sentence.
4. Use a comma between coordinate adjectives (adjective that are reversible and we can put and between).
5. Use a comma after a transitional element (however, therefore, also, and etc).
6. Use a comma with quoted words.
7. Use a comma in a date.
8. Use a comma in numbers.
9. Use a comma in a personal title.
10. Use a comma to separate a city name from the state, province, country.
