51-75 Flashcards

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Embroil

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To engage in trouble, to complicate

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Tangible

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Able to be touched or treated as real

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Homely

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Unattractive, plainlooking

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Stamina

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Resistance to fatigue or hardship, endurance

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Primp

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To dress or groom with careful attention to detail

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Posterity

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Future generations

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Kindling

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Dry sticks of wood used to start a fire

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Rift

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A break in friendly relations

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Rancid

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Spoiled or rotten esp. Oils or fats

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Shard

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A fragment of a brittle substance, glass or pottery, a small piece of something

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Sarcasm

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Harsh, often ironic ridicule, intended to hurt

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Deluge

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A great flood

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Extortion

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Taking by force or threat of force

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Comely

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Attractive or pleasing in appearance, pretty handsome

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Vogue

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Prevailing fashion

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Obsequious

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Showing too great a willingness to serve or obey

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Scion

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Ab heir, a descendent

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Bowdlerize

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To censor esp. Prudishly

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Defer

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To delay, to put off

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Become

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To be appropriate or suitable to, look good with

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Milestone

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An important event

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Fleet

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Moving swiftly

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Buoy

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To keep afloat, to raise the spirits of

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Euphony

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Pleasing sound, esp. Of words

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Hierarchy
A ranking according to status or ability, a group having authority
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Bar
To keep out exclude
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Desultory
Lacking in plan or purpose, unmethodical
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Opportunist
One who takes advantage of every opportunity
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Visceral
Instinctive, relating to the internal organs
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Permeate
To spread or flow throughout
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Stagnant
Inactive, not moving
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Indiscriminate
Unselective, random, unrestrained
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Stark
Not ornamented, plain, absolute
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Rancorous
Bitter and resentful
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Prodigal
Exceedingly recklessly wasteful
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Disconcert
To make confused or uneasy
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Patron
Sponsor a supporter, a regular customer
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Margin
A border or edge. A limit in condition or ability, an amount or degree of difference
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Fervent
Passionate, eager, earnest
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Penchant
A strong liking
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Climax
The point of greatest intensity, which marks the end of an ascending process
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Requisite
Needed, necessary
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Cognizant
Aware of
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Amorphous
Without definite shape, shapeless, unorgnized
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Demeanor
Outward behavior, esp that reveals personality and character
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Artifact
An object produced by human work, historical, archeology
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Placebo
Something presented as a drug but having no real effect
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Prosaic
Straight forward, lacking in imagination
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Tantamount
Equivalent in effect or value
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Caste
A rigid and hereditary social class