Week 2 Vocab Flashcards

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Aesthetic

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Pertaining to beauty or the arts

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Affable

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Friendly, social, easy going

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Alacrity

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Eagerness, enthusiasm, quickness

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Alleviate

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Make less severe

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5
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Allay

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To lessen

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Aloof

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Distant, detached, cold

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Altruism

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Putting others first, being self sacrificing

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Amass

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Accumulate

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Ambiguous

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Unclear in meaning, can be interpreted in different ways

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Ambulatory

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Able to walk around

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Ameliorate

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Make better

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12
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Amiable

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Friendly

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13
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Amphorus

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Lacking in shape

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Anachronistic

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Out of date, not attributed to the correct historical period

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15
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Analgesic

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Medicine to combat pain

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Analogous

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Comparable

17
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Anarchy

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Chaos, lack of government

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Anecdote

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A brief amusing story

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Animosity

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Hatred, antagonism

20
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Anomaly

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Something which does not fit in a pattern, irregularity