3 Flashcards

(46 cards)

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Remit

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to stop or grow weaker

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Feverish adj.

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intense emotion or activity, extreme excitement

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Quaint

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marked by beauty or elegance and oldfashioned while being different from norm
Ex. The ancient Sanskrit marking were quaint in design

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Sundry

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made up of different things
synonym: eclectic, various
An indeterminate number

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Ominous

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suggesting something bad will happen in the future

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Pixillated

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mentally unbalanced
unusual in a playful or amusing way, whimsical
Ex. the pixillated person couldn’t get anything straight

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Fiscal

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related to money

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Benevolence

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kind, generous, aimed to do good

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Proliferation

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to increase quickly in number or amount

Ex. the insights proliferate after meditation retreats

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Posh

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attractive, expensive, popular

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Unequivocal

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unquestionably clear

Ex. The countries support for the candidates was unequivocal

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Ignominous

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causing disgrace or shame

Ex. After not trying very hard in the second half the defeat was ignominous

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Eccentric

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strange or unusual

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Poignent

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causing a strong feeling of sadness

Ex. sometimes meditation is a poignent yet productive reminder that there is still work to do

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Phantasmagoria n.

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a strange scene that is like a dream because it is always changing in an odd way
Ex. He saw a phantasmagoria of shadowy creatures through the fog

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Apt

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appropriate
likely to do something
quick to learn

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Peal

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loud sound

Ex. peals of laughter

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Precarious

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not safe strong or steady

Ex. he earned a precarious livelyhood by gambling

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Convoluted

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complicated, difficult to understand

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Steel-trap

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quick, incisive

Ex. A steel-trap mind

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Formidable

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large powerful, difficult to handle

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Disquiet

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to make worried or nervous

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Albeit

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Unstrung

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to make weak disordered or unstable

Ex. His mind was unstrung by loneliness

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Vivacious
happy or lively in an attractive way
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Beholden
bounded or indebted
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Ineffable
too great to be described or expressed
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Tenacious
determined to do something, hard to stop
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Transient
not lasting a long time | synonym: ephemeral
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Compound
to make something worse | His illness coumpounds his stress levels
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Inclement
severe
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Callous
not feeling or showing any concern about other's suffering
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Errant
behaving wrongly or going in an unintended direction
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Incisive
very clear and direct
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Perverse
wrong or different in a way that others feel is strange or perverse
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Pallid
very pale dull or boring
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Fitfull
not regular or steady
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Effervesce
to show livliness or exhilaration
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Visceral
coming from strong emotions and not logic or reason
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Insinuate
to introduce gradually in a subtle way
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Interlude
a period of time in between events
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Disconcert
to make upset or embarrassed
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Abysmal
extremely poor or bad
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Privy
private, withdrawn
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Drab
a dull lifeless or faded appearance or quality
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Litany
a long list of complaints or problems