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Vocabulary Day 15-16 Flashcards

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1
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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

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To harass; to annoy

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Impromptu

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Done without preparation, on the spur of the moment

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Inadvertent

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Unintentional; heedless; not planned

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Inclination

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Tendency; preference; liking

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Incumbent

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Currently holding on office; obligatory

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Lavish

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To spend freely or bestow generously; to squander

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Momentum

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Force of movement; speed; impetus

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Motif

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A recurring theme or idea

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Neophyte

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Beginner; novice

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Ostensible

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Apparent (but misleading); professed

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Predispose

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To make susceptible; to put in a frame of mind for; to incline toward

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Punctilious

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Meticulously attentive to detail; scrupulously (and sometimes annoyingly) exact

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Pundit

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An expert; an authority; a learned person

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Puritanical

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Very severe and strict about morals

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Quizzical

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Teasing; mocking; questioning; inquisitive

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Rustic

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Rural; lacking urban comforts or sophistication; primitive

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Rampant

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Widespread; uncontrollable; prevalent; raging

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Solace

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Consolation; comfort

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Sordid

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Moral vile; filthy; squalid

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Specious

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Something that seems correct or appropriate or appropriate but that lacks real worth; deceptive; misleading; not genuine

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Stark

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Utter; unmitigated; harsh; desolate

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Stolid

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Not easily roused to emotion; impassive; apathetic; phlegmatic

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Stupendous

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Remarkable; extraordinary; remarkably large or extraordinarily gigantic

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Subside

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To sink or settle; to diminish; to lessen

49
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Vicissitude

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upheaval; natural change; change in fortune

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Viable

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Capable of living; workable

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Appease

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To soothe; to pacify by giving in to

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Audacity

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Boldness; reckless daring; impertinence

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Adamant

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Stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible

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Antipathy

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Firm dislike; a dislike

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Avuncular

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Like an uncle, especially a nice uncle

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Analogy

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A comparison of one thing to another; similarity

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Bulwark

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Wall used as a defensive fortification

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Bedlam

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Noisy uproar and chaos

59
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Comprehensive

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Covering or including everything

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Curtail

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To shorten; to cut short

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Culpable

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Deserving blame; guilty

62
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Concentric

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Having the same center

63
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Concoct

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To create by mixing ingredients

64
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Churl

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A rude person; a boor

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Desultory

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Without a plan or purpose; disconnected; random

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Deride

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To ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously

67
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Dictum

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An authoritative saying; an adage; a maxim; a proverb

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Derogatory

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Disapproving; degrading

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Entrepreneur

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An independent business person

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Extort

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To obtain through force, threat, or illicit means

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Elusive

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Hard to pin down; evasive

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Farcical

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Absurd; ludicrous

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Finesse

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Skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness

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Garner

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To gather; to acquire; to earn

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Homage

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Reverence; respect

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Ineluctable

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Inescapable; incapable of being resisted or avoided

77
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Infraction

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Violation; infringement; the breaking of a law

78
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Infringe

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To violate; to encroach or trespass

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Inimical

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Unfavorable; harmful; detrimental; hostile

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Liaison

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Connection; association; alliance; secret love affair

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Motley

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Extremely varied or diverse; heterogeneous; multicolored

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Muse

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To ponder; to meditate

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Nomadic

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Wondering from place to place; without a permanent home

84
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Oust

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To eject; to expel; to banish

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Perennial

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Continual; happening again and again or year after year

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Perfunctory

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Unenthusiastic; careless

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Phlegmatic

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Calm or indifferent; not easily roused to excitement

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Pilgrimage

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Religious or spiritual journey; excursion; peregrination

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Presuppose

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To assume beforehand; to take for granted in advance; to require as a prior condition

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Query

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A question; an inquiry

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Rarefied

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Esoteric; interesting to a selected group only; exalted

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Ratiocination

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Logical reasoning

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Raucous

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Stridently loud; harsh; rowdy

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Subsidiary

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Supplemental; additional; secondary or subordinate

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Substantiate

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To prove; to verify; to confirm

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Sumptuous

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Luxurious; splendid; lavish

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Surmise

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To conjecture; to guess

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Tumult

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Violent, noisy commotion; uproar; outbreak

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Teem

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To swarm; to be inundated; to overrun

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Vernacular

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Everyday speech; slang; idiom

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