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Word Smart 4 Flashcards

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Arabesque (ar uh BESK)

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n. complex, ornate design

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Arabesque

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a position in ballet

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Arcane (ar KAYN)

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adj. mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only to initiates

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Arcana

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deep secrets

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Archaic (ar KAY ik)

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adj. outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time

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Arduous (AR juh wus)

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adj. strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort

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Arrant (AR unt)

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adj. impudent; in every way,being completely such, bare-faced, utter

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errant

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itinerant

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Arrest (uh REST)

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v. to suspend; to engage

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Arresting

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holding ones attention

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Articulate (ar TIK yoo layt)

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v. to enunciate or pronounce clearly; to express oneself clearly

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Articulate

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someone who can articulate ideas clearly

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Artless (ART luhs)

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adj. completely without guile; natural, without artificiality

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Guile (GYE uhl)

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n. trickery, duplicity, cunning

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Artful

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(e.g. the Artful Dodger was a cunning pickpocket in DIcken’s Oliver Twist)

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Cunning

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adj. having or showing skill in achieving one’s ends by deceit or evasion
adj. ingenious
adj. attractive; quaint
n. skill in achieving one’s ends by deceit
n. ingenuity

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duplicity

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n. deceitfulness; double-dealing

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Ascetic (uh SET ik)

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n. one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion

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Ascetic

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adj. austere or stark

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Austere (aw STEER)

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adj. without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic

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Stark

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adj. severe or bare in appearance or outline
adj. unpleasantly or sharply clear; impossible to avoid
adj. complete; sheer

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Asperity (un SPER uh tee)

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n. severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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