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0701-0800 Flashcards

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effluvium

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an invisible emanation, especially an offensive exhalation or smell

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alimentary

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of or relating to nourishment or nutrition; furnishing sustenance or maintenance

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waif

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a stray person or animal; something found without an owner and especially by chance

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entrails

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internal parts; the inner workings of something

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foist

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to insert surreptitiously; to pass off as worthy or real

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retrocede

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to go back; recede

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plenipotentiary

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a diplomatic agent invested with full power to transact business

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portage

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the carrying of boats or goods overland or around an obstacle

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moldboard

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a curved iron plate attached above a plowshare to lift and turn the soil

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realpolitik

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politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives

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wharf

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a structure for ships to moor alongside as they load and unload

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vermilion

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a vivid reddish orange; any of various red pigments

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keen

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a lamentation for the dead uttered in a loud wailing voice

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miscegenation

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a mixture of races, especially marriage or sexual intercourse

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spleen

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feelings of anger or ill will, often suppressed

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hapless

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having no luck; unfortunate

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calumny

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a misrepresentation intended to harm another’s reputation; slander

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umbrage

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a feeling of resentment at some often fancied slight or insult; shady branches of foliage

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pique

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to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff

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physic

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the art or practice of healing disease; a medicinal agent or preparation

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inexpiable

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not capable of being atoned for

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interposition

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the action of a state whereby its sovereignty is placed between its citizens and the federal government

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interpose

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to place in an intervening position; intrude

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anathema

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something intensely disliked; the denunciation of something as accursed

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emolument
the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites
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diaphoretic
having the power to increase perspiration; perspiring profusely
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imbroglio
a violently confused or complicated altercation
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alacrity
cheerful promptness and readiness
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pabulum
food, especially nutrients in a state suitable for absorption; intellectual sustenance
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pusillanimous
lacking courage; marked by contemptible timidity
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svelte
slender or sleek; smooth in texture, performance or style
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suave
smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated
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mountebank
a person who sells quack medicines from a platform; a boastful unscrupulous pretender
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urbane
notably polite or polished in manner
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deride
to laugh at or insult contemptuously
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gormless
lacking intelligence; stupid
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imprimatur
sanction; a mark of approval or distinction
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meliorism
the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment
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cynosure
north star; one that serves to direct or guide; a center of attention
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oeuvre
a substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or a composer
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gormandize
to eat gluttonously or ravenously
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cloak
a distinctive character or role; something that envelops or conceals
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tippet
a shoulder cape; a short leader used by fly fisherman
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quoit
a flattened ring of iron or circle of rope used in a throwing game
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trepidation
a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation; apprehension
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ordinance
an authoritative decree or direction; a prescribed usage, practice, or ceremony
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hubris
exaggerated pride or self-confidence
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serviceberry
the edible fruit of various trees or shrubs of the rose family
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indispose
to make unfit or averse
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scutum
a bony, horny, or chitinous plate; scute
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cradleboard
a board to which American Indians bind a child during the infant stage of growth
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shrike
gray or brownish oscine birds that have a hooked bill
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gunnel
a small eel-like bony fish; the upper edge of the side of a boat
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marten
semiarboreal carnivorous mammals of the weasel family
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pronghorn
a swift horned ruminant mammal that resembles an antelope
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weasel
small slender active carnivorous mammals
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scrofula
tuberculosis of lymph nodes especially in the neck
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willet
a large shorebird of the sandpiper family
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sprit
a spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally
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spritsail
a sail extended by a sprit
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avocet
large long-legged shorebirds with webbed feet and slender upward-curving bill
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alum
an aluminum sulfate used especially for its astringent and styptic properties
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copperas
a salt used especially in making inks and for treating anemia caused by iron deficiency
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chit
a pert young woman; a short letter or note
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discommode
to cause inconvenience to; to trouble
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sawyer
one that saws; a sawyer beetle
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muster
a representative specimen; an act of assembling, especially for a military inspection
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octant
an instrument for observing altitudes of a celestial body from a moving ship or aircraft
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quinidine
an alkaloid used to treat cardiac rhythm irregularities
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inestimable
incapable of being estimated or computed; too valuable to be measured or appreciated
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magpie
a person who chatters noisily; one who collects indiscriminately; birds related to jays
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rhapsodize
to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner
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eloquence
discourse marked by force and persuasiveness
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inveterate
confirmed in a habit; firmly established by long persistence
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bowline
a rope used to keep the weather edge of a square sail taut forward
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pathbreaking
making or pointing a new way; trailblazing
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peritoneum
membrane that lines the abdomen of a mammal
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ignominious
deserving of shame or infamy; characterized by disgrace or shame
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adjunct
something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it
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brant
a small goose about the size of a mallard with a black head, neck, and chest
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syringa
any of several usually shrubby plants considered to resemble the orange; lilac
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tanager
tropical American oscine birds that are often brightly colored
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camas
plants of the lily family with edible bulbs
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vitiate
to make faulty or defective; to debase in moral or aesthetic status
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hobble
to fasten together the legs to prevent straying; to place under handicap
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columbine
plants of the buttercup family with irregular showy spurred flowers
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trillium
herbs of the lily family
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scute
an external bony or horny plate or large scale
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oscine
passerine birds characterized by a vocal apparatus highly specialized for singing
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passerine
the largest order of birds, which includes over half of all living birds
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altricial
being hatched or born in a very immature and helpless condition so as to require care for some time
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precocial
capable of a high degree of independent activity from birth
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ermine
weasels whose coats become white in winter
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tubercle
a small knobby prominence or excrescence especially on a plant or animal
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incommode
to give inconvenience or distress to; disturb
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disoblige
to go counter to the wishes of; inconvenience
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alkaloid
organic bases in seed plants containing nitrogen and usually oxygen, used in medicines
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serous
of, relating to, or resembling serum, especially of thin watery constitution
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placate
to soothe or mollify especially by concessions
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cutlass
a short curving sword formerly used by sailors on warships

Vocab 0701 - 0800 (1 decks)

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