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4600 - 4811 Flashcards

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Underworld

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Noun

Hades

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Underwrite

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Verb

To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.

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Unguent

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Noun

Any ointment or lubricant for local application

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Unisonant

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Adjective

Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.

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Unitarian

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Adjective

Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.

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Upbraid

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Verb

To reproach as deserving blame.

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Upturn

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Verb

To throw into confusion.

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Urbanity

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Noun

Refined or elegant courtesy

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Usurious

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Adjective

Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned.

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Usury

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Noun

The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law.

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Utilitarianism

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Noun

The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.

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Vacillate

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Verb

To waver

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Vagrant

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Noun

An idle wanderer.

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Vainglory

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Noun

Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.

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Vale

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Noun

Level or low land between hills.

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Variegate

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Verb

To mark with different shades or colours

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Vassal

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Noun

A slave or bondman

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Vaudeville

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Noun

A variety show.

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Venal

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Adjective

Mercenary, corrupt.

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Venial

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Adjective

That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.

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Venison

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Noun

The flesh of deer.

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Veracious

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Adjective

Habitually disposed to speak the truth

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Verbiage

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Noun

Use of many words without necessity.

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Verdant

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Adjective

Green with vegetation

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Verily
Adverb In truth.
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Verity
Noun Truth
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Vernal
Adjective Belonging to or suggestive of the spring
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Vestment
Noun Clothing or covering.
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Viceroy
Noun A ruler acting with royal authority in a place of the sovereign in a colony or province
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Vicissitude
Noun A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
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Vignette
Noun A picture heading a background or that is shaded off gradually.
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Vindicatory
Adjective Punitive
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Viol
Noun A stringed instrument of the violin class.
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Viola
Noun A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin.
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Violoncello
Noun A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
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Virago
Noun A bold, impudent, turbulent woman.
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Virile
Adjective Masculine
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Viscount
Noun In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.
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Vitiate
Verb To contaminate.
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Vivisection
Noun The dissection of a living animal.
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Vivify
Verb To endue with life.
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Vocative
Adjective Of or pertaining to the act of calling. M
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Voluble
Adjective Having great fluency in speaking.
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Vortex
Noun A mass if rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center.
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Votary
Adjective Consecrated by a vow or promise.
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Votive
Adjective Dedicated by a vow.
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waif
noun A homeless, neglected wanderer.
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wampum
noun Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
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wantonness
noun Recklessness.
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warlike
adjective Belligerent.
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wavelet
noun A ripple.
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weak-kneed
adjective Without resolute purpose or energy
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weal
noun Well-being.
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well-doer
noun A performer of moral and social duties.
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whereupon
adverb After which.
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wherewith
noun The necessary means or resources.
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winsome
adjective Attractive
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wintry
adjective Lacking warmth of manner
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wiry
adjective Thin, but tough and sinewy.
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witling
noun A person who has little understanding.
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wizen
verb To become or cause to become withered or dry.
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wrangle
verb To maintain by noisy argument or dispute.
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yearling
noun An animal in its second year.
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zenith
noun The culminating point of prosperity, influence or greatness.
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zephyr
noun Any soft, gentle wind.
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zodiac
noun An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets.

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