Vocabulary Day 17-18 Flashcards
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Amiable
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Friendly
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Abridge
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To shorten; to condense
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Abhor
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To hate very, very much; to detest
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Abase
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To humiliate; to lower in esteem or dignity
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Abate
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To subside; to reduce
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Abrogate
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To abolish or repeal formally; to set aside
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Blithe
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Carefree; cheerful
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Bourgeois
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Middle class; usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional
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Countenance
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Face; facial expression, especially an encouraging one
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Colloquial
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Conversational; informal in language
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Cognizant
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Aware; conscious
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Connoisseur
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An expert, particularly in matters of art or taste
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Condone
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To overlook; to permit to happen
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Desiccate
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To dry out
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Despondent
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Extremely depressed; full of despair
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Discrete
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Unconnected; separate; distinct
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Disseminate
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To spread seeds of something; to scatter; to make widely known
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Elicit
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To bring out; to call forth
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Endemic
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Native; restricted to a particular region or era; indigenous
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Ephemeral
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Lasting a very short time
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Flaunt
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To show off; to display ostentatiously
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Flout
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To disregard something out of disrespect
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Generic
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General; common
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Hypocrisy
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Insincerity; two-facedness
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Interim
Meantime; an intervening time; a temporary arrangement
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Insouciant
Nonchalant; lighthearted; carefree
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Insurrection
An act of open rebellion against authority
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Integral
Essential; indispensable
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Intricate
To hint or imply
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Intrigue
A secret scheme; a crafty plot
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Invidious
Causing envy or resentment; offensively harmful
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Licentious
Lascivious; lewd; promiscuous; amoral
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Mystic
Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
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Machination
Scheming activity for an evil purpose
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Nonchalant
Indifferent; coolly unconcerned
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Overture
Opening move; preliminary offer
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Placebo
A fake medication; a fake medication used as a control in tests of the effectiveness of drugs
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Plight
A dangerous, distressing or unpleasant situation
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Plunder
To loot; to ransack
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Pluralism
A condition of society in which distinct groups exist and function together yet retain their own identities
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Quasi
Almost; near; resembling
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Turbid
Murky; opaque; unclear
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Titillate
To excite; to stimulate; to tease
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Theology
The study of God or religion
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Tepid
Lukewarm; halfhearted
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Vapid
Without liveliness; dull; spiritless
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Venerate
To revere; to treat as something holy, especially because of great age
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Vacuous
Empty of content; lacking in ideas or intelligent
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Vanquish
To conquer; to overpower
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Verisimilitude
Similarity to reality; the appearance of truth; looking like the real thing
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Abound
to be very numerous
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Aberration
Something not typical; a deviation from the standard
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Accentuate
To emphasize; to ascend; to highlight
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Abject
Hopeless; extremely sad and servile; defeated; utterly bummed out
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Abortive
Unsuccessful
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Anterior
Situated in front
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Burgeon
To expand; to flourish
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Bureaucracy
A system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules, any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape
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Conductive
Promoting
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Congenial
Agreeably suitable; pleasant
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Congenital
A trait or condition acquired between conception and birth; innate
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Criterion
Standard; basis for judgment
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Culminate
To climax; to reach full effect
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Distinguish
To tell apart; to cause to stand out
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Debunk
To expose the nonsense of
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Dormant
Inactive; as though asleep; asleep
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Decry
To put down; to denounce
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Espouse
To support; to advocate
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Equitable
Fair
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Exalt
To raise high; to glorify
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Foible
a minor character flaw
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Foment
To stir up; to instigate
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Genesis
Origin; creation; beginning
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Hegemony
Leadership, of one nation over another
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Intimate
To hint or imply
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Indict
To charge with a crime; to accuse of wrongdoing
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Infrastructure
The basic framework of a system; foundation
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Interminable
Seeming unending; tediously long
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Loath
Extremely unwilling; reluctant
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Martial
Warlike; having to do with combat
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Mercurial
Emotionally unpredictable; rapidly changing in mood
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Novel
New; original
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Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are used together
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Profligate
Extravagantly wasteful and, usually, wildly immoral
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Pontificate
To speak pompously or dogmatically
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Profound
Deep (in several senses)
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Porous
Filled with many tiny holes; permeable; absorbent
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Presumably
Probably; the assumption is that ;doubtless
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Pseudonym
A false name; an alias
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Psyche
The human soul; the mind; the spirit
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Prurient
Having lustful thought or desires; causing lust
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Pristine
Perfectly clean and untouched; uncontaminated
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Queue
A line or file
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Recidivism
The act of repeating an offense
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Regimen
A regulated course
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Rend
To tear; to rip
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Sedition
Treason; the incitement of public disorder or rebellion
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Secular
Having nothing to do with religion or spiritual concerns
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Saccharine
Sweet; excessively or disgustingly sweet
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Veracity
Truthfulness
