Vocabulary Deck 14 Flashcards
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Abrasion
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- damage to skin caused by scraping; 2. process of scraping or rubbing
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Adumbrate
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outline; indicate
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Cognitive
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concerned with thinking or perceiving
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Deign
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condescend
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Fervid
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passionate
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Gall
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- bitterness; 2. confidence; 3. abnormal growth on a plant
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Levee
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- raised bank of a river; 2. morning reception help by a monarch
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Preternatural
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unnatural; abnormal
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Quell
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suppress
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Score
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written form of music
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Abut
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to adjoin
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Consternation
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worry and concern
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Gavel
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judge’s hammer
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Lien
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right to sell property held as a security; legal hold on a job
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Parenthesis
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remarks deviating from the main point
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Sinewy
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vigorous; having well-developed muscles
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Steep
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to soak in water
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Tamp
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to plug; press loose matter down tightly
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Venturing
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- hazarding; risking; putting forward; 2. going somewhere
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Wry
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- twisted or bent to one side; 2. dryly humorous
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Arduous
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hard
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Decimated
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kill or destroy a large part of
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Fledge
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- grow feathers; 2. leave the nest
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Gouge
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cut or dig out
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Picayune
insignificant; of little value
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Riviting
fascinating
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Soliloquy
solo speech
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Supplicant
person who requests or begs for something
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Transcendental
supernatural; going beyond normal experience
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Veritable
true; genuine
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Condescension
talking down to someone
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Divest
remove; take off
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Eddy
circular current
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Epaulet
shoulder decoration
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Fallacy
wrong idea
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Fringe
1. decorative border with tassels 2. to form an edge
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Leaven
to make light; modify; cause bread to rise using yeast
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Patronize
1. to talk down to; condescend; 2. to be a customer of
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Prominent
1. eminent; 2. protruding; 3. obvious
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Statute
law
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Antipathy
hatred
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Aver
affirm
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Expatiate
speak or wright great length
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Flag
1. to loose energy; 2. to signal
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Flail
1. tool used to thresh grain; 2. to thresh; 3. to wave arms about wildly
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Indicted
accused of a crime
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Loll
laze around; hang out (with respect to your tongue)
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Malign
slander
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Secure
1. to fix firmly; 2. to obtain
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Talon
long pointed nail or claw
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Abeyance
state of inactivity; disuse
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Disarm
1. take away weapons; 2. win over to one's side
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Elaborate
1. complex and detailed; 2. to expand on
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Foment
1. to stir up; 2. bathe with hot liquids
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Jockeying
maneuvering; struggling to get ahead of others
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Minutiae
small details
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Rue
regret
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Somatic
concerned with the body
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Stinting
holding back; limiting the supply of ...
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Temperate
moderate
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Allure
1. attraction; 2. to attract
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Caulk
treat with substances such as tar to make water tight
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Conscript
1. person enlisted compulsorily into the armed forces; 2. to enlist compulsorily
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Desultory
aimless; inconsistent in effort
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Elegy
poem concerned with death; praise of a dead person
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Fallow
uncultivated
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Forbearing
tolerant
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Hegemony
political domination; complete authority
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Improbity
lack of honesty or integrity
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Qualm
hesitation or fear
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Assay
1. try; 2. assess purity
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Chauvinist
someone excessively patriotic
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Discrete
separate; discontinuous
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Enlist
1. to sign up for the army; 2. obtain
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Fabricated
made up; false; manufactures
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Fulminate
1. attack loudly in words; denounce thunderously; 2. explode noisily
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Hawser
thick rope or cable
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Jibe
agree with; complement; match up with
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Peer
1. an equal; 2. to stare at; 3. nobleman
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Stickler
one who is strict about rules or details
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Cloture
closure; terminating a debate by voting
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Congruent
matching
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Dally
waste time; flirt
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Dissemble
avoid the truth
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Dote
be excessively fond of
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Errant
1. wandering; 2. wrong; 3. straying from accepted standards
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Fervent
passionate
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Stomach
to tolerate
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Synapse
junction between two nerve cells
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Undercutting
offering a lower price; undermining
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Arson
deliberate criminal starting of fires
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Carrion
dead flesh; carcasses
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Intelligible
can be understood
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Ironclad
cannot be altered; firm
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Lint
fluff; soft material used to cover wounds
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Pretension
assumed attitude of superiority; arrogance
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Pundit
expert
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Pyre
ceremonial fire
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Sate
satisfy
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Syncopation
type of musical rhythm with missed beats
