200 Words Flashcards
(99 cards)
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A skillful teller of anecdotes
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Raconteur
Rah-kon-ter
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translucent, transparent; clear
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Pellucid
(pəˈl(j)uːsɪd)
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Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way.
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Churlish /ˈtʃə:lɪʃ/
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Inefficient or clumsy.
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Maladroit /ˌmaləˈdrɔɪt/
Maladroitness
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Producing good effects; beneficial.
Archaic: Health-giving
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Salutary
/ˈsaljʊt(ə)ri/
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Associate or form a friendship with someone, especially when you are not supposed to.
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Fraternise /ˈfratənʌɪz/
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Lack of reverence or respect for religion.
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Impiety /ɪmˈpʌɪɪti/
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- Intense happiness
- The ability to find appropriate expression for one’s thoughts.
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Felicity /fɪˈlɪsɪti/
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A symbol of plenty consisting of a goat’s horn etc.
An abundant supply of good things of a specified kind.
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Cornucopia /ˌkɔ:njʊˈkəʊpɪə/
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Turning point in a situation.
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Watershed
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- Travelling from place to place, in particular working and for short periods of time.
- Of a teacher working in more than 1 school or college.
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Peripatetic /ˌpɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪk/
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To gather or accumulate
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Garner
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A sudden attack or outburst of a particular emotion or activity.
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Paroxysm /ˈparəksɪz(ə)m/
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- Relating to the countryside; rural
- Lacking sophistication of a city; backward and provincial.
- Made in a plain and simple fashion.
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Rustic /ˈrʌstɪk/
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Showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery; corrupt.
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Venal; Venally; Venality /ˈvi:n(ə)l/
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Making a show of being morally superior to other people.
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Sanctimonious /ˌsaŋ(k)tɪˈməʊnɪəs/
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Not connected with religion.
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Secular /ˈsɛkjʊlə/
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Remove matter thought to be unsuitable or inappropriate.
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Expurgate /ˈɛkspə:geɪt/
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One who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.
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Pedant /ˈpɛd(ə)nt/
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- A mass for the repose of the souls of the dead.
- A musical composition setting parts of a requiem mass.
- An act or token of remembrance.
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Requiem /ˈrɛkwɪəm, -ɪɛm/
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Innocent and unsuspecting.
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Ingenuous /ɪnˈdʒɛnjʊəs/
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Relentlessly severe, stern or gloomy in manner or appearance.
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Dour / Dourness /ˈdʊə, ˈdaʊə/
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Make amends or reparation for.
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Expiate; expiable; expiatory /ˈɛkspɪeɪt/
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Silly and pointless.
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Fatuous; fatuity; Fatuousness /ˈfatjʊəs/
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Contrary to what is usual, traditional or expected.
Unorthordox; unorthordoxy /ʌnˈɔ:θədɒks/
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1) A modulation or inflection of the voice
2) Rhythmical effect in written text
3) Fall in pitch of the voice at the end of a phrase.
Cadence Cadenced /ˈkeɪd(ə)ns/
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Perceptible by touch
Tangible Tangibility
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1) Throw or drop
2) Abandon or discard
Jettison
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Second to last
Penultimate /pɪˈnʌltɪmət/
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Using ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth
Equivocate; Equivocation
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Speak or act in an evasive way.
Prevarication/Prevaricate
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A comparison between one thing or another, typically for the purpose of explanation
Partial similarity
Analogous /əˈnalədʒi/
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Infinite power; all powerful; Exceedingly strong or mighty.
Omnipotent
| (ɒmˈnɪpətənt)
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1 Having the faculty or power of laughing; inclined or given to laughter.
2 Pertaining to, or used in, laughter.
3 Capable of exciting laughter; laughable, ludicrous, comical.
Risible
| (ˈrɪzɪb(ə)l)
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Acting or done for another.
Experienced in the imagination throught the feelings or actions of another person.
Vicarious/-ly/ Vicariousness
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Of doubtful authencity, although widely circulated as being true.
Apocryphal
| (əˈpɒkrɪfəl)
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Sentimental in a feeble or sick way
Mawkish
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Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems to be not of this world.
Ethereal / Ethereality
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Reduce the strength, effect or value of.
Make thin or thinner.
Attentuate / Attenuation
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Showing lack of proper concern
Cavalier
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Feeling or revealing an overt sexual desire.
Lascivious/Lasciviousness
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A deep wrinkle on a person's face.
a rut or groove
Furrow / Furrowy
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An inclination or predisposition
Proclivity
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Understood or implied without being stated
Tacit
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(of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others
(of a comparison or distinction) unfairly discriminating; unjust:
Invidious Invidiousness
| (ɪnˈvɪdɪəs)
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lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible:
Feckless/Fecklessness
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A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged
Physics a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force.
• [with modifier] resistance to change in some other physical property
Inertia
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The complete range or scope of something
Gamut
/ˈgamət/
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Just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary
• confused or incoherent
Law (of an offence, such as incitement or conspiracy) anticipating or preparatory to a further criminal act
Inchoate / Inchoateness
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A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.
Interlocutor Interlocution
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Tiredness or inactivity, especially when pleasurable
An oppressive stillness of the air
Languor /ˈlaŋgə/
Languorous
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Having or showing a wish to do evil to others
Malevolent / Malevolence
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A general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged
A collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine
* the works of a particular author or artist that are recognized as genuine
* the list of works considered to be permanently established as being of the highest quality
Canon / Canonical
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Painful or laborious effort
(of a woman) be in labor
Travail
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Affected or associated with nausea or vomitting.
Spiteful; bad-tempered
Bilious / Biliousness
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Occurring at an inconvenient or inappropriate time.
Inopportune / Inopportuneness
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Present at the same time in all places; everywhere present.
Ubiquitous-ness (juːˈbɪkwɪtəs)
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careful in the use or disposal of money or resources; sparing, saving
Parsimonous . Parsimony
| (pɑːsɪˈməʊnɪəs)
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Characterized by tearful sentimentality; mawkishly emotional; weakly sentimental.
Maudlin
| (ˈmɔːdlɪn)
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Fail to give a true notion of.
Fail to justify (a claim or expectation)
Belie
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unwilling to change one's views or to agree. Stubborn.
Intransigent/Intransigence-y
ɪnˈtrɑːnsɪdʒənt
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Lacking in quantity or quality
(of a person or animal) lean; thin
Meagre (US:Meager)
Meagreness
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Useful or practical rather than attractive
Utilitarian
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Informal: cheat or defraud
Archaic: evade or elude
Bilk
That lousy conman jus tried to bilk me.
Enough bilking. We got you where we want you.
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Not spoiled or made impure.
Unsullied
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Disrespectful
Irreverent / Irreverence
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Formal: Effective
Efficacious / Efficaciousness
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Eager or quick to argue or fight. Aggressively defiant.
Truculent / Truculence
trʌkjʊlənt
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Ignoring the complexities of an issue; superficial
(of success) easily achieved
Facile / Facileness
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Childishly sulky or bad-tempered
Petulant / Petulance
| (ˈpɛtjʊlənt)
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Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
Pernicious / Perniciousness
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Intellectual rather than emotional or physical
Cerebral
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Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place
Indigenous
| (ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs)
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Critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of a scripture
Exegesis / Exegetic / Exegetical
| (ɛksɪˈdʒiːsɪs)
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A person, especially a young one, with exceptional abilities. An outstanding example of a quality.
An amazing or unusual thing.
Prodigy
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Not readily relinquishing something; keeping a firm hold.
Persisting in existence
Tenacious
| (tɪˈneɪʃəs)
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Showily attractive but lacking real value
Archaic: Characteristic of a prostitue
Meretricious / Meretriciousness
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Annoyance or shame at having failed
Chagrin
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Remove (a need or difficulty)
Avoid; prevent
Obviate / Obviation
| (ˈɒbvɪeɪt)
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Suspension of rule
Interregnum
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A group of witches who meet regularly
Covent
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Respond to a gesture or action with a corresponding one.
Reciprocate / Reciprocation
| (rɪˈsɪprəkeɪt)
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A daydream
Archaic: A fanciful idea or theory
Reverie
| (ˈrɛvərɪ, ˈrɛvəriː)
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Obliterate or remove completely
| (əˈblɪtərət)
Expunge / Expunction / Expungement
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(Of regulations or requirements) Strict, precise & exacting.
Stringent / Stringency
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Inordinate desire of acquiring and hoarding wealth; greediness of gain, cupidity.
avarice / Avaricious / Avariciousness
(ˈævərɪs)
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adjective Law (of goods contracted for without an individual specimen being specified) replaceable by another identical item; mutually interchangeable.
Fungible / Fungibility
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an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when alone or regardless of hearers, especially by a character in a play.
Soliloquy / soliloquize
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adverb & adjective free of charge
Gratis
greɪtɪs
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in its original condition. Spotless.
Pristine
ˈprɪstiːn
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adjective informal, chiefly North American uncontrollably exuberant.
Rambunctious / Rambunctiousness
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Never relaxing or slackening
Unremitting / Unremittingness
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Bland intellectual matter or entertainment
a suspension or solution of nutrients in a state suitable for absorption
2 : intellectual sustenance
3 : something (as writing or speech) that is insipid, simplistic, or bland
Pabulum OR Pablum (N)
| (ˈpæbjʊləm)
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Industry etc is no longer active or effective and may be coming to an end :
literary slowly dying :
Moribund mɒrɪbʌnd
The patient was moribund by the time the doctor got here.
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Brave or heroic.
A man who is charmingly attention to women.
Gallant
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A swamp or muddy inlet.
A situation characterised by lack of progress or activity.
Cast off or shed / ____ away /down: Collapse or slide into a hole or depression.
Slough (N) (slaʊ)
Slough (V)(slʌf)
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Prevent from breathing freely; suffocate
Smother or suppress / prevent or constrain
Stifle / Stifling
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adjective (of an argument or case) clear, logical, and convincing.
Cogent / Cogency
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