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Vocabulary Level F Units 1-5 Flashcards

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1
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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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18
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Precipitate

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Fall as moisture; to cause

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19
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Stringent

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Strict

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20
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Surmise

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To guess

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21
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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

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Illegal, prohibited

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Erudite

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Scholarly, learned

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Gossamer

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Thin, lift, delicate

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28
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Infer

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To find out by reasoning

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29
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Inscrutable

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incapable of being understood

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30
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Insular

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Narrow in Outlook

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31
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irrevocable

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Irreversible

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32
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Propensity

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A natural inclination, tendency

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Querulous

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Complaining

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Remonstrate

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Protest against, object to

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Repudiate

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To deny

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36
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Resilient

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Able to Recover quickly

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Reverberate

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To reecho, resound

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Scurrilous

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Coarsest abusive

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Sedulous

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Persistent

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Sleazy

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Cheap, inferior

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abominate

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to hate

42
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acculturation

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adaptation to new culture.

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adventitious

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unintentional, accidental

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ascribe

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attribute, credit

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commiserate

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to sympathize with

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enjoin

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to direct or order

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expedite

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to make easy, speed up

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expiate

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make amends for

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ferment

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state of great excitement

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Inadvertent

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accidental

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nominal

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too small to be take seriously

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noncommittal

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not decisive

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peculate

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to steal

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proclivity

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natural inclination or tendency

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Sangfroid

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composure or coolness

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seditious

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resistant to lawful authority

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tenuous

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poorly supported

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vitriolic

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Bitter, sarcastic

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circuitous

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indirect, roundabout

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Wheedle

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To cajole, sweet-talk

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Amnesty

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Pardon or Forgiveness

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Autonomy

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Self government, independence

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Axiomatic

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Universally accepted

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Blazon

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To display, broadcast

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Caveat

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Warning

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Equitable

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Fair

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Flinch

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Steal

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Flout

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To mock

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Fractious

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Troublesome, unruly

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Percept

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A rule of conduct

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Salutary

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Helpful, Beneficial

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Scathing

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Harsh, Severe

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Scourge

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punish severely

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Sepulchral

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gloomy, dismal

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Soporific

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Tendency to cause sleep

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Straitlaced

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Overly strict

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Transient

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Lastin a a short time

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Unwieldy

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Not easily managed

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Vapid

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Dull, uninteresting

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Extricate

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To remove; disentangle

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Assuage

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To calm or relieve

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Approbation

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Approval, praise

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Coalition

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Alliance

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Decadence

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Decay, Corruption

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Expostulate

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To dissuade, Protest

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Interceed

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Intervine, Mediate e

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Innuendo

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A hint

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Umbrage

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Offence

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Meritorious

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Worthy, deserving recognition, Praise

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Lurid

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Causing shock, or horror

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Prerogative

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A special right or privilege

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Simulate

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Imitate

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Provincial

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Narrow-Minded

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Transcend

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To raise above or beyond

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Petulant

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Irritable, testy

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Hiatus

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Gap, Pause

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Unctuous

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Fawning, Trying to hard

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Jaded

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Used so often as to lack freshness or originality

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Elicit

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To draw forth

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Hackneyed

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wearied, worn-out

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