Vocabulary Geography Flashcards
1
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Episode
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Scene or incident
2
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Bombast
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Speech too pompous/pretentious for an occasion
3
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Superfluous
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Excessive
4
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Requisite
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Required or necessary
5
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Apocryphal
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- False or spurious
- questionable
6
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Demarcations
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Separation by distinct boundaries
7
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Idealistic
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(Adj) to pursue high or noble goals
8
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Laconic
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- Concise; using few words
- succinct
- pithy
9
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Ascetic
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- one who dedicates their life to contemplative ideals
- denies their self normal pleasures of life
10
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Taciturn
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Inclined to silence
11
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Tempestuous
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Turbulent or tumultuous
12
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Eminent
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Prominent, distinguishable
13
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Execrable
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Detestable, abhorrent
14
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Expediency
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- Advantageous
- sense of self-interest
15
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Regency
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Exercises the ruling power during the minority, absence or disability of a sovereign
16
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Obtuse
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Not quick in perception, feeling or intellect
17
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Abominable
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Repugnantly hateful; detestable
18
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Transient
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Not enduring or permanent
19
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Incredulous
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Skeptical; to show disbelief
