Vocabulary List 2 Flashcards by Byzan Grandyll

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Skipper

1 noun

n. captain of a ship, boat, aircraft, or sports team

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Nether

1 adjective

adj. lower in position

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Primordial

2 adjectives

adj. there since the beginning of time

adj. basic and fundamental

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Gaunt

2 adjectives

adj. lean and haggard, esp. due to torment

adj. (of a store or house) grim or desolate in appearance

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Deference

1 noun

n. humble submission and respect

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Dowdy

1 adjective

adj. (of a woman or their clothing) unfashionable and without style

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Malaise

1 noun

n. a feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness of which the exact identify of its cause is dubious

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Fleck

1 noun

n. a small amount of light or color; a speck of something

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Ambience

2 nouns

n. the character or atmosphere of a place

n. background noise

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Perpetual

1 adjective

adj. never ending or changing, impervious; occurring repeatedly

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Cathartic

1 adjective

adj. providing mental relief through open expressions of strong emotion

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Insensate

1 adjective

adj. lacking feeling, sense, physical sensation, or reason

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Firmament

1 noun

n. the sky, viewed as a solid surface

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Defenestration

2 noun

n. the action of throwing someone out the window

n. the act of removing or dismissing someone from their position of power

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Pelage

1 noun

n. the fur hair or wool of a mammal

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Aphonic

1 adjective

adj. voiceless or mute

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Geriatric

1 adjective, 1 noun

n. an old person

adj. relating to old people

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Posterity

1 noun

n. the descendants of a person

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Pontificate

1 verb

v. express one’s opinions pompously or dogmatically

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Congenial

1 adjective

adj. pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or interests similar to one’s own

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Proffer

1 verb

v. to offer; to hold out something for someone to accept

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Languid

1 adjective

adj. slow and relaxed

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Rote

1 noun

n. mechanical or habitual repetition of something inculcated; by heart (by rote)

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Lilt

1 noun

n. a characteristic rising and falling of one’s voice when speaking

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Dredge (dredge up)

1 verb

v. to bring up an unpleasant fact

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Cagey

1 adjective

adj. reluctant to give out information

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Scion

1 noun

n. a descendant of a notable family

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Tepid

2 adjectives

adj. lukewarm

adj. showing little enthusiasm

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Rictus

1 noun

n. a fixed grimace or grin

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Matriarch

1 noun

n. a woman who is powerful within a family or organization

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Sublime

2 adjectives

adj. inspiring great admiration and awe

adj. used to denote the extreme nature of one’s attitude or behavior (e.g. sublime audacity)

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Lithe

1 adjective

adj. thin, supple, and graceful

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Ungulate

1 noun

n. a hoofed animal

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Cull

1 verb

v. select from a large quantity (e.g. cull from a group)

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Tantamount

1 adjective

adj. equivalent in seriousness to

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Ostracize

1 verb

v. exclude from a group or society

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Belaguer

1 verb

v. lay siege to; beset with difficulties

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Tripe

1 noun

n. nonsense, rubbish

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Avant-garde

1 adjective

adj. heretical, iconoclastic

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Axiomatic

1 adjective

adj. obvious, self-evident

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Parochial

1 adjective

adj. insular, limited in outlook

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Burble

1 verb

v. to speak in an excited manner

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Bourgeois

1 adjective

adj. middle class

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Catch-22

1 noun

n. a lose-lose situation

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Cavalier

1 adjective

adj. without concern for others, offhand

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Cronyism

1 noun

n. the appointment of people close to you to preside in positions of authority

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Delineate

1 verb

v. limn, describe or portray precisely

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Dichotomy

1 noun

n. a division of contrast between two things (e.g. a dichotomy between love and lust)

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Disseminate

1 verb

v. to spread or disperse (such as information) widely

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Divulge

1 verb

v. to put out in the open, promulgate

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Egalitarian

1 adjective

adj. related to the belief that all people are equal (e.g. egalitarian principles)

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Expendable

1 adjective

adj. able to be lost without any substantial consequence

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Fastidious

1 adjective

adj. picky, finicky, minute

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Galvanize

1 verb

v. shock or excite someone to take action (e.g. galvanize into watching a movie)

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Gambit

1 noun

n. an action taken to gain an advantage

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Kibosh (put the kibosh on)

1 verb

v. to stop (e.g. put the kibosh on his burgeoning feelings)

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Misnomer

1 noun

n. an inaccurate epithet (e.g. calling a black dog ‘Snowie’)

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Neophyte

1 noun

n. a dilettante, tyro, beginner

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Ait

1 noun

n. a small island in a river

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Non sequitur

1 noun

n. a conclusion or statement that does not adhere to the previous statement

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Panacea

1 noun

n. a solution or cure-all for anything

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Quid pro quo

1 noun

n. a favor intended to remit a previous favor or to work someone into their debt

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Je ne sais quoi

1 noun

n. a trait or quality that cannot be described or named easily

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Quintessential

1 adjective

adj. an epitome, a perfect archetype, exhibiting the most perfect example of something

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Quixotic

1 adjective

adj. unrealistic and impractical, fanciful thinking

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Ramification

1 noun

n. result, consequence, implication

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Red herring

1 noun

n. a gambit, something intended to mislead

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Rejoinder

1 noun

n. an acerbic, witty reply, a canny rebuttal

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Rife

1 adjective

adj. full of (e.g. when you’re rife with devastation, there’s a simple explanation)

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Stalwart

2 adjectives

adj. loyal, reliable, and hardworking

adj. strongly built and sturdy (a stalwart frame)

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Svengali

1 noun

n. a puissant leader who exercises their powers, especially for baleful and malicious purposes

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Sycophant

1 noun

n. a toady, brownnoser, yes-man

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Tenuous

2 adjectives

adj. very weak to the point of being insubstantial

adj. very slender or fine (e.g. a thin, tenuous cloud)

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Tête-à-tête

1 noun

n. a private conversation between two people

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Verisimilitude

1 noun

n. the appearance of being veritable and authentic (the writer’s identity merely endows the article with but a fleck of verisimilitude)

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Vicarious

2 adjectives

adj. acted or done for another

adj. feeling or imagining through other people (Fluttershy experiences vicarious melancholy for her animal’s injuries)

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Wheelhouse

1 noun

n. a time or place at which one is advantageously at ease (in one’s wheelhouse)

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White elephant

1 noun

n. a possession that is useless or onerous to keep

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Wunderkind

1 noun

n. a precocious person who achieves success when relatively young

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Glean

1 verb

v. to collect, gather, obtain from sundry sources gradually

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Anhedonic

1 adjective

adj. unable to experience pleasure, unflappable

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Sententious

1 adjective

adj. given to moralizing with pompous and grandiloquent fashion

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Harry

1 verb

v. to persistently beleaguer

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Erroneous

1 adjective

adj. wrong or incorrect

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Semblance

1 noun

n. the outward appearance of something, especially an erroneous depiction

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Anon

1 adverb

adv. soon, shortly (he will come anon)

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Occasion

1 verb

v. engender, cause (something)

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Duly

1 adverb

adv. jibing with what is expected of

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Draught (or draft)

3 noun

n. a single act of drinking or inhaling (knocked back the beer in one draught)
n. a current of cool air in a confined space
n. the action of pulling something along

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Curate

1 noun

n. a member of a clergy, a rector, a prelate

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Deign

1 verb

v. do something someone considers below them

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Wont

1 noun

n. one’s normal behavior in a particular situation (a wont to sleep at 2 in the morning)

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Vale

1 noun

n. a valley, low part between two mountains

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Precept

1 noun

n. a general rule in order to regulate behavior and moral

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Crony

1 noun

n. a close friend or companion

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Twain

2 nouns

n. two

n. two items of the same kind

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Heath

1 noun

n. uncultivated land with scrubby vegetation

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Impute

1 verb

v. assign as a cause, attribute, ascribe

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Yen

1 noun

n. a yearning or longing for (a yen to go back home)

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Recourse

1 noun

n. refuge, succor, a source of help in a difficult situation; solution