Vocabulary Unit 4 Flashcards

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What means indifferent, bored as a result of enjoying many pleasures; apathetic?

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Blasé

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What means to reduce to nothing; to make ineffective or inoperative; to declare legally invalid or void?

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Annul

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What means to support, give a boost to; a long pillow or cushion; a supporting post?

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Bolster

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What means to feel sorrow or express regret or disapproval?

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Deplore

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What means of little importance, not worthy of serious attention; not meant seriously?

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Frivolous

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What means to bring together for service or battle; to gather or summon; to amount to, comprise, include; a list of men for military service; a gathering, accumulation?

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Muster

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What means a person or thing of no importance?

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Nonentity

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What means to trouble, haunt, or fill the mind?

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Obsess

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What means elaborately decorated; showily splendid?

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Ornate

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What means to remove, drive out of a position or place?

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Oust

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What means to read carefully and thoroughly?

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Peruse

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What means full of tiny holes; able to be penetrated by air or water?

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Porous

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What means a high point of land extending into water?

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Promontory

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