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Words 3200 - 3400 Flashcards

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overleap

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verb

To leap beyond.

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overtone

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noun

A harmonic.

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overture

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noun

Orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio.

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palinode

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noun

A retraction.

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pall

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verb

To make dull by satiety.

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palliate

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verb

To cause to appear less guildy,

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pallid

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adjective

Of a pale or wan appearance.

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paly

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adjective

Lacking colour or brilliancy.

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pamphleteer

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verb

To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.

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panacea

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noun

A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.

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Pan-American

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adjective

Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.

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panegyric

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noun

A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken of a person or of an act.

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panoply

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noun

A full set of armour.

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pantheism

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noun

The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.

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Pantheon

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noun

A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.

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pantoscope

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noun

A very wide-angled photographic lens.

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papacy

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noun

The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.

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papyrus

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noun

The writing paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.

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parable

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noun

A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.

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paragon

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noun

A model of excellence.

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paramour

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noun

One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.

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pare

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verb

To cut, shave or remove (the outside) from anything.

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Pariah

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noun

A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.

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parish

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noun

The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.

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parlance

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noun

Mode of speech

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parley

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verb

To converse in.

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parlour

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noun

A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.

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parody

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verb

To render ludicrous by imitating the language of.

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paroxysm

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noun

A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.

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parricide

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noun

The murder of a parent.

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parse

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verb

To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.

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parsimonious

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adjective

Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.

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pastoral

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adjective

Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.

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pathos

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noun

The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.

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patrician

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adjective

Of senatorial or noble rank.

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patrimony

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noun

An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one’s father.

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patronize

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verb

To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.

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patronymic

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adjective

Formed after one’s father’s name.

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patter

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verb

To mumble something over and over.

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paucity

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noun

Fewness.

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pauper

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noun

One without means of support.

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pauperism

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noun

Dependence on charity.

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pavilion

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noun

An open structure for temporary shelter.

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peccable

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adjective

Capable of sinning.

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peccadillo

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noun

A small breach of propriety or principle.

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peccant

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adjective

Guilty.

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pecuniary

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adjective

Consisting of money.

48
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pedagogics

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noun

The science and art of teaching.

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pedagogue

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noun

A schoolmaster.

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pedagogy

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noun

The science and art of teaching.

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pedant

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noun

A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.

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peddle

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verb

To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.

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pedigree

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noun

One’s line of ancestors

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peerage

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noun

The nobility.

55
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peevish

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adjective

Petulant (irritable).

56
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Pellucid

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Adjective

Translucent.

57
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penance

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noun

Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself to as an expression of penitence.

58
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penetration

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noun

Discernment.

59
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penitence

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noun

Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.

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penitential

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adjective

Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone

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pentavalent

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adjective

Quinquevalent.

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pentad

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noun

The number five.

63
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pentahedron

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noun

A solid bounded by five plane faces.

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pentameter

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noun

In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.

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pentathlon

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noun

The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.

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penurious

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adjective

Excessively sparing in the use of money.

67
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penury

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noun

Indigence (a state of extreme poverty)

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perambulate

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verb

To walk about.

69
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percipience

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noun

The act of perceiving.

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percipient

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noun

One who or that which perceives.

71
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peremptory

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adjective

Precluding question or appeal.

72
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perfidy

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noun

Treachery.

73
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perfunctory

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adjective

Half-hearted.

74
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perigee

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noun

The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.

75
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peripatetic

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adjective

Walking about.

76
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perjure

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verb

To swear falsely to.

77
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perjury

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noun

A solemn assertion of a falsity.

78
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pernicious

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adjective

Tending to kill or hurt.

79
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perquisite

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noun

Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages

80
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persevere

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verb

To continue striving in spite of discouragements.

81
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persiflage

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noun

Banter

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personage

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noun

A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station.

83
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perspicacious

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adjective

Astute.

84
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perspicacity

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noun

Acuteness or discernment.

85
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perspicuous

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adjective

Lucid.

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pertinacious

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adjective

Persistent or unyielding

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pertinacity

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noun

Unyielding adherence

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