Volume 1 Flashcards by Favio Yepes | Brainscape

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Aural

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Perceive by the ear

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Ascertain

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To discover with certainty

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Burgeon

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To grow or flourish

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Contiguous

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Sharing edge

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Conspicuous

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Easy to notice

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Dearth

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Scarce supply

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Debacle

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Sudden collapse

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Debilitate

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To take power from

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Dilatory

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Habitually late

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Dirge

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Funeral hymn

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Disaffected

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Lost faith or loyalty

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Disparage

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Speak of in a slighting way or negatively : belittle

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Disseminate

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Scatter

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Exacerbate

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Increase violence aggravate

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Impetus

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Impelling force

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Incontrovertible

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Indisputable

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Ingenuous

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Lacking cunning guile honest

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Intransigence

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Refusing a extreme position

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Litigious

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Tending to lawsuit

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Lugubrious

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Mournful

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Mendacious

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Lying

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Modicum

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A small amount

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Paucity

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Smallness of number

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Pejorative

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Words that belittle

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Perspicacious

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Showing mental discernment

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Placid

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Calm

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Potentate

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Power to rule

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Prescience

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Knowledge of actions or events before occur

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Prospectus

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A formal summary of a proposed venture

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Redolent

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Reminiscent

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Remiss

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Lax in duty ; negligent

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Repugnant

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Aversion

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Sonorous

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Deep and full sound

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Squelch

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to crush by

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Stratify

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To form arrange

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Strident

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Loud

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Vituperative

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Hardly abusive censured

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Vindictive

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Dispose to seek revenge