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Vocabulary Day 17-18 Flashcards

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1
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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

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Meantime; an intervening time; a temporary arrangement

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Insouciant

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Nonchalant; lighthearted; carefree

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Insurrection

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An act of open rebellion against authority

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Integral

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Essential; indispensable

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Intricate

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To hint or imply

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Intrigue

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A secret scheme; a crafty plot

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Invidious

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Causing envy or resentment; offensively harmful

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Licentious

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Lascivious; lewd; promiscuous; amoral

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Mystic

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Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic

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Machination

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Scheming activity for an evil purpose

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Nonchalant

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Indifferent; coolly unconcerned

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Overture

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Opening move; preliminary offer

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Placebo

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A fake medication; a fake medication used as a control in tests of the effectiveness of drugs

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Plight

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A dangerous, distressing or unpleasant situation

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Plunder

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To loot; to ransack

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Pluralism

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A condition of society in which distinct groups exist and function together yet retain their own identities

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Quasi

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Almost; near; resembling

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Turbid

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Murky; opaque; unclear

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Titillate

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To excite; to stimulate; to tease

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Theology

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The study of God or religion

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Tepid

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Lukewarm; halfhearted

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Vapid

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Without liveliness; dull; spiritless

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Venerate

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To revere; to treat as something holy, especially because of great age

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Vacuous

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Empty of content; lacking in ideas or intelligent

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Vanquish

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To conquer; to overpower

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Verisimilitude

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Similarity to reality; the appearance of truth; looking like the real thing

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Abound

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to be very numerous

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Aberration

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Something not typical; a deviation from the standard

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Accentuate

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To emphasize; to ascend; to highlight

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Abject

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Hopeless; extremely sad and servile; defeated; utterly bummed out

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Abortive

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Unsuccessful

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Anterior

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Situated in front

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Burgeon

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To expand; to flourish

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Bureaucracy

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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

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Promoting

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Congenial

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Agreeably suitable; pleasant

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Congenital

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A trait or condition acquired between conception and birth; innate

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Criterion

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Standard; basis for judgment

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Culminate

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To climax; to reach full effect

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Distinguish

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To tell apart; to cause to stand out

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Debunk

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To expose the nonsense of

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Dormant

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Inactive; as though asleep; asleep

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Decry

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To put down; to denounce

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Espouse

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To support; to advocate

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Equitable

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Fair

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Exalt

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To raise high; to glorify

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Foible

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a minor character flaw

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Foment

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To stir up; to instigate

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Genesis

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Origin; creation; beginning

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Hegemony

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Leadership, of one nation over another

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Intimate

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To hint or imply

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Indict

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To charge with a crime; to accuse of wrongdoing

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Infrastructure

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The basic framework of a system; foundation

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Interminable

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Seeming unending; tediously long

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Loath

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Extremely unwilling; reluctant

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Martial

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Warlike; having to do with combat

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Mercurial

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Emotionally unpredictable; rapidly changing in mood

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Novel

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New; original

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are used together

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Profligate

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Extravagantly wasteful and, usually, wildly immoral

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Pontificate

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To speak pompously or dogmatically

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Profound

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Deep (in several senses)

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Porous

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Filled with many tiny holes; permeable; absorbent

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Presumably

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Probably; the assumption is that ;doubtless

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Pseudonym

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A false name; an alias

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Psyche

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The human soul; the mind; the spirit

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Prurient

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Having lustful thought or desires; causing lust

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Pristine

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Perfectly clean and untouched; uncontaminated

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Queue

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A line or file

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Recidivism

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The act of repeating an offense

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Regimen

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A regulated course

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Rend

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To tear; to rip

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Sedition

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Treason; the incitement of public disorder or rebellion

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Secular

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Having nothing to do with religion or spiritual concerns

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Saccharine

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Sweet; excessively or disgustingly sweet

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Veracity

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Truthfulness

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