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LIST 7A Flashcards

0
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Aboveboard

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Honest

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Abate

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To decrease in force

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Accolade

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Award; praise

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acrid

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Bitter, as in taste or smell; harsh

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Admonish

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To warn; to criticize

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Affected

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Artificial, as in behavior, theatrical

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Alacrity

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Eagerness; cheerful promptness

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Alleviate

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To lessen; to diminish

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Amalgam

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Mixture

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Anachronistic

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Out of place in time

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Animosity

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Hatred; hostility

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Anomalous

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Out of place; unusual

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Anthology

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Collection of poems or stories

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Aphorism

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A short; wise saying

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Apprentice

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  1. A worker who is in training

2. An unskilled worker

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Archaic

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Ancient

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Arsenal

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Collection of weapons

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Aspirant

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A hopeful person

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Astute

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Smart

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augment

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To add too

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Autonomy

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Freedom: independence

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Awry

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wrong; out of place; off the right course

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Banal

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Ordinary; boring

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Baseness

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  1. Inferiority; low rank

2. Crudeness

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Befuddle

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To confuse

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Belligerent

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Argumentative; aggressive

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Beret

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round; flat cap

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Bigot

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Prejudiced person

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Blatant

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Obvious; attention - grabbing

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Bombastic

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Loud and self - involved; pompous

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Brevity

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Briefness

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Buffeted

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Hit repeatedly

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Bustle

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To hurry

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Cajole

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To urge through flattery

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Calving

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  1. Giving birth to a calf

2. Losing part of oneself

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Cataclysmic

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Terrible; tragic

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Caucus

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Meeting

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Cavort

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To run around in a playful manner

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Certitude

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Sureness; certainty

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Chary

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Careful; wary

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Chide

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To scold; to disapprove of

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Circumlocution

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A roundabout way of speaking

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Citrus

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Type of fruit, including oranges, lemons

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Coagulate

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To clot; to come together

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Coffer

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Box in which valuables are kept

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Cohesive

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  1. Logical

2. Holding together

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Colossal

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Huge

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Commiserate

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To sympathize

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Compost

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Fertilizer

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Condone

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To overlook

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Conflagration

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Large fire

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Congregate

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To come together in a crowd

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Conspicuous

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Obvious

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Contiguous

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Touching

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Conviction

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Strong belief

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Corroborate

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To prove evidence to support a view or an opinion

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Countermand

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Command replacing a previous one

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Crusader

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One who fights for a cause

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Curator

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Director of an institute

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Daunt

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To threaten

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Debilitate

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To weaken; to cripple

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Decoy

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Trick; lure

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Deference

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Extreme respectfulness

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Degradation

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Dishonor

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Denounce

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To criticize

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Deride

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To ridicule

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Despondent

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Depressed

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Detest

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To hate

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Dialectic

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Method of finding the truth through reasoning

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Diffidence

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Shyness; lack of confidence

70
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dilation

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Process of becoming wider

71
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disapprobation

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Disapproval

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Discern

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  1. To recognize

2. To distinguish between things

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