Vocabulary Day 15-16 Flashcards
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Aversion
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A strong feeling or dislike
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Ameliorate
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To make better or more tolerable
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Accolade
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An award; an honor
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Axiom
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A self-evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying
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Avarice
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Greed; excessive love of riches
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Affinity
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Sympathy; attraction; kinship; similarity
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Brusque
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Abrupt manner; blunt
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Byzantine
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Extremely complicated in structure
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Cursory
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Hasty; superficial
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Cryptic
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Mysterious; mystifying
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Climatic
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Having to do with the climate
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Clout
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A blow; influence
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Cohort
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A group
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Compile
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To gather together
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Deluge
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A flood; an inundation
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Denizen
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Inhabitant
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Destitute
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extremely poor; utterly lacking
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Deprecate
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To express disapproval of
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Ensue
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To follow immediately afterward; to result
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Entity
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Something that exists; a distinct thing
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Enmity
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Deep hatred; animosity; ill will
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Forensic
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Related to or used in courts of law
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Fecund
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Fertile; productive
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Gamut
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The full range (of something)
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Harry
To harass; to annoy
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Impromptu
Done without preparation, on the spur of the moment
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Inadvertent
Unintentional; heedless; not planned
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Inclination
Tendency; preference; liking
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Incumbent
Currently holding on office; obligatory
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Lavish
To spend freely or bestow generously; to squander
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Momentum
Force of movement; speed; impetus
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Motif
A recurring theme or idea
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Neophyte
Beginner; novice
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Ostensible
Apparent (but misleading); professed
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Predispose
To make susceptible; to put in a frame of mind for; to incline toward
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Punctilious
Meticulously attentive to detail; scrupulously (and sometimes annoyingly) exact
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Pundit
An expert; an authority; a learned person
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Puritanical
Very severe and strict about morals
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Quizzical
Teasing; mocking; questioning; inquisitive
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Rustic
Rural; lacking urban comforts or sophistication; primitive
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Rampant
Widespread; uncontrollable; prevalent; raging
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Solace
Consolation; comfort
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Sordid
Moral vile; filthy; squalid
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Specious
Something that seems correct or appropriate or appropriate but that lacks real worth; deceptive; misleading; not genuine
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Stark
Utter; unmitigated; harsh; desolate
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Stolid
Not easily roused to emotion; impassive; apathetic; phlegmatic
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Stupendous
Remarkable; extraordinary; remarkably large or extraordinarily gigantic
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Subside
To sink or settle; to diminish; to lessen
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Vicissitude
upheaval; natural change; change in fortune
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Viable
Capable of living; workable
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Appease
To soothe; to pacify by giving in to
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Audacity
Boldness; reckless daring; impertinence
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Adamant
Stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible
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Antipathy
Firm dislike; a dislike
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Avuncular
Like an uncle, especially a nice uncle
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Analogy
A comparison of one thing to another; similarity
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Bulwark
Wall used as a defensive fortification
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Bedlam
Noisy uproar and chaos
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Comprehensive
Covering or including everything
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Curtail
To shorten; to cut short
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Culpable
Deserving blame; guilty
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Concentric
Having the same center
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Concoct
To create by mixing ingredients
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Churl
A rude person; a boor
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Desultory
Without a plan or purpose; disconnected; random
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Deride
To ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously
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Dictum
An authoritative saying; an adage; a maxim; a proverb
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Derogatory
Disapproving; degrading
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Entrepreneur
An independent business person
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Extort
To obtain through force, threat, or illicit means
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Elusive
Hard to pin down; evasive
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Farcical
Absurd; ludicrous
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Finesse
Skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness
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Garner
To gather; to acquire; to earn
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Homage
Reverence; respect
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Ineluctable
Inescapable; incapable of being resisted or avoided
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Infraction
Violation; infringement; the breaking of a law
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Infringe
To violate; to encroach or trespass
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Inimical
Unfavorable; harmful; detrimental; hostile
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Liaison
Connection; association; alliance; secret love affair
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Motley
Extremely varied or diverse; heterogeneous; multicolored
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Muse
To ponder; to meditate
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Nomadic
Wondering from place to place; without a permanent home
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Oust
To eject; to expel; to banish
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Perennial
Continual; happening again and again or year after year
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Perfunctory
Unenthusiastic; careless
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Phlegmatic
Calm or indifferent; not easily roused to excitement
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Pilgrimage
Religious or spiritual journey; excursion; peregrination
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Presuppose
To assume beforehand; to take for granted in advance; to require as a prior condition
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Query
A question; an inquiry
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Rarefied
Esoteric; interesting to a selected group only; exalted
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Ratiocination
Logical reasoning
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Raucous
Stridently loud; harsh; rowdy
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Subsidiary
Supplemental; additional; secondary or subordinate
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Substantiate
To prove; to verify; to confirm
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Sumptuous
Luxurious; splendid; lavish
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Surmise
To conjecture; to guess
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Tumult
Violent, noisy commotion; uproar; outbreak
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Teem
To swarm; to be inundated; to overrun
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Vernacular
Everyday speech; slang; idiom
