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WPME Chapter 14; Common phenomenon and occurences Flashcards

1
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penury

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abject poverty, complete lack of financial resources

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abject

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Most unfortunate or miserableShowing utter resignation or hopelessness

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penurious

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stingy, closed fisted, niggardly

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parsimonious

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half of penurious

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indigence

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mild degree of poverty

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destitution

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penury

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straitened

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Bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

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affluent

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Rich and their wealth is increasing

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opulence

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> > affluence the one’s with Rolls-royce

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confluence

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flow together

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vicarious

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second hand experienceeg: feel pain by empathy

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epheral

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anything that is short lived

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evanescence

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it’s here, and before you comprehend its gone

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adolescent

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beginning to grow up

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evansce

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begin to vanish

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convalsce

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begin to get well after illness

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putrescent

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becoming to become putrid

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obsolescent

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beginning to become obsolete

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euphemism

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a word or expression that has been substituted for another that is likely to offend

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euphony

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pleasant sound

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eulogy

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funeral speech

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epilogue

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after-words

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prologue

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before-words

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euphoria

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good feeling, a sense of mental buoyancy and physical well being

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euthnasia

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good death

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badinage

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half teasing, non malicious, frivolous banter

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persiflage

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badinage

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cliche

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pattern of words so old, worn, and threadbare that only banal, unimaginative speakers and writers ever use it

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bromide

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any trite, dull, probably fallacious remark that shows little evidence of original thinking

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platitude

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cliche or bromide used with an air of novelty that as if he has just made it up

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anodyne

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a drug that allays pain without curing an illness

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allays

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Tastelessly showy

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bovine

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cow like, stolid, patient, unexitable

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stolid

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Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited

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leonine

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like a lion in appearance or temperament

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canine

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like a dog

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feline

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catlike, feline grace, (insultingly) of feline temperament

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porcine

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piglike

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vulpine

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foxl like in appearance or temperament, for shrewdness of fox

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ursine

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bearlike, ursa major

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lupine

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wolflike

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equine

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horse like

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nostalgia

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a keen, almost physical longing for associations or places of the past

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cacophony

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harsh sounding ear offending word

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telephone

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sound from afar

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euphony

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pleasant sound

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phonograph

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writer of sound

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phonetics

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the science of sounds of language

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phonics

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science of sound

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voracious

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devouring, hence greedy and gluttonous,could be voracious in pursuit of money, pleasure

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ubiquitous

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omnipresent

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omnibus

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for all including all

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carnelian

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a reddish gemstone

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carnival

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an exuberant or riotous merrymaking or festivities

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exuberant

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  1. Joyously unrestrained2. Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
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carnal

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used as carnal pleasures or carnal appetite signifying pleasures or appetite of flesh and hence is sensual, lecherous, lascivious, lubricious

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carnage

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great destruction of life as in war or mass murders

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reincarnation

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a rebirth or reappearence

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incarnate

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in the fleshas a verb is to embody, give bodily for to or make real

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cladestine

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calm secretly working out of a plan that is dangerous or illegal

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surreptitious

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syn for clandestine but clandestine plans and surreptitious if of movements or actions.

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