Week #5 Flashcards
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Rampant
(ramˊpənt)
Going unchecked, widespread
When the plague was rampant on the island, Dr.
Arrowsmith’s wife died.
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Inane
(in ānˊ)
Foolish
Orville Wright was criticized for his inane desire to fly.
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Ethics
(ethˊiks)
Code of principles
A special management committee was asked to investigate business ethics.
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Concur
(kən kėrˊ)
Agree
If I can get my parents to concur, I’ll join the Peace Corps.
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Clandestine
(klan desˊtən)
Secret, undercover
The spies thought their meeting was a clandestine one
but a throng of F.B.I. agents gathered outside the
building.
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Stock In Trade
The goods, tools and other requisites of a
profession
A quit wit and a warm smile was the saleman’s stock in
trade.
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Flagrant
(flāˊgrənt)
Outrageous, glaringly bad
Parking in front of a hydrant is a flagrant violation of the city’s law.
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Admonish
(ad monˊish)
To warn, to reprove
I suspect that my father will admonish me for coming home late.
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Duress
(dü resˊ or dūā resˊ)
Compulsion, force
The confession was signed under duress, the attorney claimed.
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Culprit
(kulˊprit)
The guilty person
The culprit was caught with his fingers in the cookie jar.
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Inexorable
(in ekˊ sə rə bəl)
Inflexible, unrelenting
I suspect that my father will admonish me for coming
home late.
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To Take Down A Peg
To take the conceit out of a braggart
The alumni thought they had a great basketball team, but our varsity took them down a peg.
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Egregious
(i grəˊjəs)
Remarkably bad
The bank teller’s egregious error was difficult to correct.
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Distraught
(dis trôtˊ)
Mentally confused, crazed
The soldiers were distraught to learn that their
furloughs had been canceled.
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Duplicity
(dü plisˊə ti)
Cunning, trickery
Duplicity is the stock in trade of all adroit counterspies.
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Acrimonious
(akˊrə mōˊni əs)
Bitter
We tried to ignore her acrimonious comments, but that took considerble restraint.
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Paucity
(pôˊsə ti)
Scarcity
Although it was a creative writing class, the teacher
complained about the paucity of talent there.
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To Pass The Buck
To evade responsibility
He always gives me a straight answer and never tries to pass the buck.
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Elicit
(i lisˊit)
To draw forth
He hoped that we would not elicit his decision to run for office as a thirst for power.
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Pernicious
(pər nishˊəs)
Harmful, causing injury
The dictator’s pernicious rules failed to intimidate the leaders of the underground.
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Tolerate
(tolˊ ər āt)
To put with, to bear
Dentists appreciate patients who can tolerate pain.
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Construe
(kən strüˊ)
To make a deduction, to infer
It isn’t easy to construe answers from a sleepy class on
Monday morning.
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Impunity
(im pūˊnə ti)
Freedom from punishment
The border guards allowed the doctor to cross the
frontier with impunity.
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To Lionize A Person
To make a big fuss over someone
When the famous poet Dylan Thomas visited the United States, he was lionized wherever he lectured.
