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Word List 6 Flashcards

1
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Prerogative

A

Privelage or right by virtue of position or rank

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Presentiment

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Premonition

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Profound

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Intense, needing or showing great insight

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Profusely

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Extravagantly, without limitation

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5
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Prowess

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Outstanding skill, courage

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6
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Pusillanimously

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Timidly, in a faint-hearted way

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7
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Pyre

A

A pile of wood

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8
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Qua

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In so far as, in the character of, as

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Quicksilver

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Unpredictable, changeable

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10
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Quintessential

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Highly typical

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11
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Rakish

A

Appearing fast

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12
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Rectify

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To correct

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Recur

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To happen again, return to mind

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14
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Redoubtable

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Formiddable, commanding respect

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15
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Relevent

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Relating to the matter at hand

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Repeal

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To cancel, withdraw

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17
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Ret

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Prepare for use

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18
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Retrograde

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Tending to revert or backwards

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19
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Roseate

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Rose coloured

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20
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Rue

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Bitterness, Disappointment

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21
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Ruminating

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Thinking deeply about something

22
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Rut

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Sexual desire of other various mammals

23
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Sanguine

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Confident, hopeful, optimistic

24
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Scorned

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Rejected, ignored with contempt

25
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Sear

A

Scar, burn mark

26
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Sedentary

A

Sitting, Seated… for a period of time

27
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Seriatim

A

One after the other

28
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Shibui

A

Restrained elegance

29
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Sojourn

A

Temporary residence or stay, a visit

30
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Sop

A

To dip in any liquid

31
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Spurious

A

Not genuine

32
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Squire

A

to escort, accompany

33
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Swain

A

Suitor

34
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Swoon

A

To faint from emotion

35
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Synoptic

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Pertaining to an overall view

36
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Tat

A

Pony

37
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Tenterhooks

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Hooks or bent nails or a framework that hold cloth taut for drying

38
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Terse

A

Concise

39
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Tod

A

A bush

40
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Traipse

A

Wearily wander, trudge, walk aimlessly

41
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Transient

A

Temporary

42
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Truculent

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Agressive, bellicose, fierce

43
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Turista

A

Gastro-intestinal illness afflicting travelling people

44
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Tête-â-Tête

A

A private talk

45
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Umfriend

A

a person with whom one has had a brief sexual encounter

46
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Uncanny

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Inexplicable, beyond the normal, expected

47
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Unequivocally

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Conclusively, without conditions

48
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Urchin

A

A young child who is playful or mischevious

49
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Usurp

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Taking over one’s position/power without having the right to do so

50
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Utterly

A

Fully, to a totaly extent

51
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Uxorious

A

Excessively fond of wife

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