Vocabulary Level F Units 1-5 Flashcards
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Ameliorate
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To improve or make better
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Aplomb
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Composure, Poise
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Bombastic
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Pompous
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Callow
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Inexperienced
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Drivel
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Nonsense, saliva
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Epitome
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An instance that represents a larger reality
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Exhort
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To urge strongly
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Ex Offico
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By virtue of holding a certain office
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Infringe
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Violate, trespass
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Ingratiate
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Cozy up to
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Interloper
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Intruder
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Intrinsic
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Belonging to something by natured inherent
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Inveigh
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Attack in words
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Lassitude
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Fatigue
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Millennium
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Period of 1000 years
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Occult
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Mysterious, magical
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Permeate
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To speak/soak through
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Precipitate
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Fall as moisture; to cause
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Stringent
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Strict
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Surmise
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To guess
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Affable
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Courteous and pleasant
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Aggrandize
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To make appear greater
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Amorphous
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Shapeless, without definite form
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Aura
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A distinctive air or personal quality
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Contraband
Illegal, prohibited
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Erudite
Scholarly, learned
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Gossamer
Thin, lift, delicate
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Infer
To find out by reasoning
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Inscrutable
incapable of being understood
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Insular
Narrow in Outlook
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irrevocable
Irreversible
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Propensity
A natural inclination, tendency
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Querulous
Complaining
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Remonstrate
Protest against, object to
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Repudiate
To deny
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Resilient
Able to Recover quickly
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Reverberate
To reecho, resound
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Scurrilous
Coarsest abusive
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Sedulous
Persistent
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Sleazy
Cheap, inferior
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abominate
to hate
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acculturation
adaptation to new culture.
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adventitious
unintentional, accidental
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ascribe
attribute, credit
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commiserate
to sympathize with
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enjoin
to direct or order
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expedite
to make easy, speed up
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expiate
make amends for
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ferment
state of great excitement
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Inadvertent
accidental
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nominal
too small to be take seriously
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noncommittal
not decisive
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peculate
to steal
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proclivity
natural inclination or tendency
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Sangfroid
composure or coolness
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seditious
resistant to lawful authority
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tenuous
poorly supported
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vitriolic
Bitter, sarcastic
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circuitous
indirect, roundabout
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Wheedle
To cajole, sweet-talk
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Amnesty
Pardon or Forgiveness
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Autonomy
Self government, independence
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Axiomatic
Universally accepted
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Blazon
To display, broadcast
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Caveat
Warning
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Equitable
Fair
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Flinch
Steal
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Flout
To mock
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Fractious
Troublesome, unruly
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Percept
A rule of conduct
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Salutary
Helpful, Beneficial
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Scathing
Harsh, Severe
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Scourge
punish severely
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Sepulchral
gloomy, dismal
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Soporific
Tendency to cause sleep
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Straitlaced
Overly strict
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Transient
Lastin a a short time
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Unwieldy
Not easily managed
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Vapid
Dull, uninteresting
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Extricate
To remove; disentangle
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Assuage
To calm or relieve
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Approbation
Approval, praise
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Coalition
Alliance
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Decadence
Decay, Corruption
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Expostulate
To dissuade, Protest
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Interceed
Intervine, Mediate e
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Innuendo
A hint
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Umbrage
Offence
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Meritorious
Worthy, deserving recognition, Praise
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Lurid
Causing shock, or horror
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Prerogative
A special right or privilege
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Simulate
Imitate
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Provincial
Narrow-Minded
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Transcend
To raise above or beyond
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Petulant
Irritable, testy
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Hiatus
Gap, Pause
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Unctuous
Fawning, Trying to hard
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Jaded
Used so often as to lack freshness or originality
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Elicit
To draw forth
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Hackneyed
wearied, worn-out
