Words 8/18/12 Flashcards
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bona fide
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genuine, real
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bonhomie
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good-natured, friendly
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boon
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a blessing
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boor
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a rude person
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bootleg
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to smuggle, to sell/make illegally
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booty
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loot
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bosky
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covered with a lot of trees/shrubs
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botch
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to spoil something by doing it badly
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bouillabaisse
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a stew made of fish; a mixture of things
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bowdlerize
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to omit, abridge, or modify a work of literature that is considered offensive
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bracing
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energizing, stimulating, healthy and fresh
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brandish
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to flaunt
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brash
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hasty and reckless
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bravado
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a false or boastful display of courage
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brawn
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great muscular strength
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brazen
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bold, shameless
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brazier
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a pan for holding burning coals
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breach
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to violate
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breadth
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width
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brevity
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briefness
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brigand
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a bandit or robber
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broach
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to bring up a subject for discussion
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brogue
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an accent, regional dialect
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bromide
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a cliché, a chemical compound used as a sedative
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brook
to bear or tolerate
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brouhaha
an uproar, hubbub
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brusque
impolitely abrupt, curt
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buffoon
a comical person
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bureaucracy
a large administrative system
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burgeon
to flourish, expand
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burlesque
exaggerated imitation
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burnish
to polish or rub
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butte
an isolated mountain with steep sides on a large plain
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buttress
support for a wall, encouragement or support
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Byzantine
difficult to understand and complicated
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cabal
a small group of people who plan a secret plot, especially political
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cachet
a mark of prestige and approval
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calamity
a disaster
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camaraderie
friendship
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canard
a false story with the intention of misleading
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canon
a principle, decree, law
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canopy
something covering from weather
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cant
insincere statements made to give one tje appearance of goodness
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canvass
to conduct a survey
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capitulate
to surrender under certain conditions
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captious
quick to point out faults
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carapace
a protective covering, a shell
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carcinogenic
likely to cause cancer
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cardinal
of great importance, chief
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careen
to move fast and unsteadily
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carnage
a massacre
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carp
to complain and find fault about unimportant things
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carrion
dead and rotting flesh
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cascade
resembling a waterfall
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cataclysm
a violent upheaval or change
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catacomb
underground cemetery
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cataract
a large waterfall, an eye abnormality
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categorical
absolute, unconditional
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catheter
a flexible tube inserted into a bodily channel to permit injection of fluids
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catholic
universal, embracing everything
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caustic
acidic, corrosive
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cavalier
casual, showing arrogant disregard
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cavil
to quibble
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cavort
to strut, to prance
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cede
to give up, as by treaty
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celerity
speed
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celibacy
abstinence from sex
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cessation
stopping of
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chafe
to irritate, to rub
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chaff
anything worthless
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chagrin
humiliation, disappointment
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chalet
a Swiss farmhouse with overhanging eaves
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chanteuse
a female singer in nightclubs
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charisma
ability to attract followers
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chary
careful, cautious
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chaste
morally pure
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chastise
to punish, discipline
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chateau
a French estate or large house
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cherub
an angel represented in art as a beautiful
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chimerical
fanciful, imaginary, absurd
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chintzy
gaudy, cheap, tacky
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chloroform
a chemical that produces anesthesia
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chortle
to laugh with pleasure and glee
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chronicle
a history, a record of events
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chronology
an order of events
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churl
a rude or vulgar person
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chutzpah
audacious behavior that is sometimes admired but often rude
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cinematic
relating to motion pictures
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cipher
a code, a solution to a code
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circuitous
not following a direct path
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circumlocution
indirect speech, talking around the facts
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circumnavigate
to travel all the way around
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circumscribe
to restrict
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circumspect
cautious
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circumvent
to surround, enclose
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cite
to quote by way of example
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clairvoyant
having the ability to foresee things
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clamor
uproar
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claque
a group hired to applaud at a performance
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clarify
to make clear
