Week #23 Flashcards
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Heterogeneous
(hetˊər ə jēˊni əs)
Dissimilar
Our algebra class is a heterogeneous one in which
bright students are j
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Gamut
(gamˊət)
Range
The actress ran the gamut of emotions in a poignant
performance which t
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Perspicacious
(pėrˊspə kāˊsgəs)
Acutely perceptive, shrewd
Senator Thorpe was perspicacious enough to realize
that the scurrilous
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Analogous
(ə nalˊə gəs)
Comparable, similar
Although the lawyer acknowledged that the two cases
were hardly analog
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Maladjusted
(malˊə jusˊtid)
Poorly adjusted, disturbed
The Bureau of Child Guidance has been the salvation
for some maladjust
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The Distaff Side
Women (distaff was a staff used in spinning)
The men had brady on the porch, while the distaff side
gathered to gos
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Phenomenon
(fə nomˊə nonˊ)
Unusual occurrence
There was no paucity of witnesses to describe the
phenomenon of the fl
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Mortality
(môr talˊə ti)
Death
If a miner were to ponder over the hight morality rate
in his oc
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Decade
(dekˊād)
Ten years
After a decade of connubial acrimony, the couple
decided to consult wit
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Susceptible
(sə sepˊtə bəl)
Easily affected, unusually liable
Ethan Frome soon learned that his querulous wife was
susceptible to a v
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Neurotic
(nü rotˊik)
Suffering from a nervous disorder
Irritability is one of the salient features of a neurotic
personality.
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On The Qui Vive
On the alert
My mother is always on the qui vive for bargains.
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Pedagogue
(pedˊə gog)
Teacher
Mr. Ford is proud to be called a teacher, but he demurs
at the title o
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Enunciate
(i nunˊsi āt)
To utter, proclaim
Reporters were expeting the candidate to enunciate his
policy on the e
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Inordinate
(in ôrˊdə nit)
Excessive
In an attempt to show how assiduous he was, the
executive spent an inor
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Irascible
(i rasˊə bəl)
Irritable
His profligate son made the parsimonious old crank
even more irascible
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Introspective
(inˊtrə spekˊ tiv)
Looking into one’s own feelings
Since Alice is so gregarious it surprised me to lean that
she is also
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To Get One’s Back Up
To become angry
Every time his mother mentioned getting a haircut, the
young guitarist
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Perpetuate
(pər pechˊü āt)
To cause to continue
Don Recardo hoped that his son would perpetuate the
family business, bu
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Mandate
(manˊdāt)
An authoritative order or command
As a prelude to his victory speech, the mayor
announced that he conside
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Compensatory
(kə penˊsə tôˊri)
Serving to pay back
Compensatory education may help minority groups to
cope with their pli
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Neutralize
(nüˊtrəl īz)
To counteract
Dr. Meyers prescribed medication to neutralize the acid
condition which
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Catastrophic
(katˊə strofˊik)
Disastrous
If the Draconian regulations are to continue unabated,
they will have
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To Bring Home the Bacon
To earn a living, to succeed
The man’s inability to bring home the bacon was the
actual reason for t
