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Vocabulary Test #3 Flashcards

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Ascetic (n.)

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Person who shuns pleasures and lives simply

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Astringent (n.)

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Substances that shrinks tissues and checks flow of blood

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Astringent (adj.)

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  1. Severe; stern

2. Cashing contraction

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Calumnious (adj.)

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Farley and maliciously accusing; defamatory; slanderous

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Cherubic (adj.)

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Chubby and innocent-looking; like a cherub

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Convivial (adj.)

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Fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable

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Elation (n.)

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State of being elated; euphoria

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Emaciated (adj.)

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Made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness

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Encomium (n.)

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Speech or writing of high praise; tribute; eulogy; panegyric

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Eulogise (v.)

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Praise; extol; laud; glorify

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Facetious (adj.)

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  1. In the habit of joking

2. Said in jest without serious intent

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Fester (v.)

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Form pus; rankle; rot; putrefy

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Flippant (adj.)

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Treating serious matters lightly

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Fulsome (adj.)

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Offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting

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Halcyon (adj.)

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Calm; peaceful

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Jocose (adj.)

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Given to jesting; playfully humorous; jocular

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Jocund (adj.)

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Merry; cheerful; lighthearted

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Libel (n.)

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False and defamatory printed or written statement

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Menagerie (n.)

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Place where animals are kept and trained; collection of wild animals

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Morbid (adj.)

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  1. Gruesome

2. Having to do with disease

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Obsequious (adj.)

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Showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning

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Poignant (adj.)

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Painfully touching; piercing

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Stigma (n.)

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Mark of disgrace

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Sycophant (n.)

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Parasitic flatterer; truckler

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Travesty (n.)

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Imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous; mockery

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Virulent (adj.)

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  1. Extremely poisonous; deadly; venomous

2. Very bitter

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Ascetic (adj.)

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Shunning pleasures; self denying; austere

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