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VSP review quiz 2 Flashcards

1
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To make greater, richer, more powerful.

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Aggrandize

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Lacking freshness or originality; commonplace, ordinary

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Banal

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Trickery, specially in legal dealings; the use of subterfuge or trickery in debate

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Chicanery

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To indicate

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Denote

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One who organizes and manages a business, assuming the risk of profit or loss

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Entrepreneur

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An inanimate object thought to have inherent magical powers, and therefore worshiped

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Fetish

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Hatefully bad or wicked; abominable

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Heinous

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Thinking deeply or seriously, often sad or melancholy things

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Pensive

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To evoke resentment in

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Pique

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Expressing sorrow; mournful

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Plaintive

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Forceful and effective; keen, penetrating

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Trenchant

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Green with growing plants or grass; green in color

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Verdant

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13
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To erase or remove something as if by rubbing

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Efface

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14
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Outstandingly bad

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Egregious

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15
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To flow forth or originate from a source

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Emanate

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To illustrate something by acting as an example

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Exemplify

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17
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Going beyond what is reasonable; excessive

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Exorbitant

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18
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To lessen the seriousness of the circumstance by giving excuses

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Extenuate

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19
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To drink; to absorb or take in with the senses as if by drinking

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Imbibe

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20
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To imprison

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Incarcerate

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21
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To protect against or compensate for damage or loss

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Indemnify

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22
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Without excitement or appeal

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Insipid

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Fearless

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Intrepid

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To cover with water; to overwhelm as if with a flood

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Inundate

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To officially renounce power or neglect to complete a responsibility or duty

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Abdicate

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To make greater ,as in size, quantity, and strength; to supplement

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Augment

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27
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To make clear or plain especially by explanation

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Elucidate

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28
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Not capable of sin; faultless

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Impeccable

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29
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Not easily discouraged or defeated; unconquerable

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indomitable

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30
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Rising in active revolt against constituted authority

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Insurgent

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31
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Feeling sorrow for one’s sins and being willing to repent

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Penitent

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32
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Tendency to destroy life; dangerous to the moral, social, or political welfare of society

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Pestilent

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To put off doing something until a future time; to postpone habitually.

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Procrastinate

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To chew the cud; to meditate or reflect on

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Ruminate

35
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Loud, harsh, and granting

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Strident

36
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Susceptible to wounds; open to attack

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Vulnerable

37
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Revealing hostility and readiness to fight

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Belligerence

38
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Intonation of the voice

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Cadence

39
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Mercy in the exercise if authority power; leniency toward an offender or enemy

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Clemency

40
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A funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning

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Dirge

41
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The quality of being thrifty; not spending or using unnecessarily

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Frugality

42
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A break or interruption in something; a gap; a pause

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Hiatus

43
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Extreme poverty

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Penury

44
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Condition of the soul lost in eternal punishment

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Perdition

45
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The act of stealing and using the ideas or writings of another as one’s own

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Plagiarism

46
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A person or thing that goes before and heralds the coming of another person or thing; one who precedes another in a course or office

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Precursor

47
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Authoritative permission for an action

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Sanction

48
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The direction of an object through space

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Trajectory

49
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One who holds that the existence of God is unknown and unknowable; one who asserts that all claims to knowledge are uncertain

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Agnostic

50
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A person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation; a formal ecclesiastical curse or ban

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Anathema

51
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A person or thing greatly detested

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Anathema

52
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A curse or imprecation generally

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Anathema

53
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A course taken

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trajectory

54
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Penalty imposed to encourage compliance to a law

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Sanction

55
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Measured movement, such as in music and writing

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Cadence

56
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Unripe in knowledge or judgement; unsophisticated

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Verdant

57
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To arouse

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Pique

58
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Any irrationally reverenced; obsession

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Fetish

59
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To exaggerate

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Aggrandize

60
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Capable of burning corroding, or destroying tissue by chemical action

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Caustic

61
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Cutting or sarcastic in utterance

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Caustic

62
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A test, rule, or standard by which something is judged.

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Criterion

63
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A leader who appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace in order to obtain power

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Demagogue

64
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An indefinitely long time

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Eon

65
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A name or title used to describe or characterize a person or thing

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Epithet

66
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A temperament peculiar to an individual; any personal peculiarity or mannerism

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Idiosyncrasy

67
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A supposed remedy for all diseases or ills

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Panacea

68
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Excess; superabundance

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Plethora

69
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A fictitious name, as one assumed by an author

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Pseudonym

70
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Occurring in occasional or isolated instances

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Sporadic

71
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To force someone to comply or obey, as by pressure, threats, or intimidation; to effect by force

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Coerce

72
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To strengthen or confirm by agreeing statements or new evidence

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Corroborate

73
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To cause uneasiness, embarrassment, or confusion.

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Discomfit

74
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To thwart the plans or purposes of

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Discomfit

75
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Reclining; lying down; resting

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Recumbent

76
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The act of objecting or protesting

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Remonstrance

77
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The act of formally or voluntarily giving up a claim or a title

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Renunciation

78
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Abundantly supplied; well-filled

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Replete

79
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Deserving of blame, rebuke, or censure

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Reprehensible

80
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Forcible seizure in retaliation for injuries received; injury done in return for injury received

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Reprisal

81
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An interval of relief or rest; a delay of punishment

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Respite

82
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Inclination to be silent

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Reticence

83
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Punishment for offenses; compensation

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Retribution

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