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Vocab Day 3 Flashcards

1
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Plants as a group

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Flora

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2
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Great misery or distress

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Tribulation

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3
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Stressing practical use over other values

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Utilitarian

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4
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To stick to; to be a firm follower

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Adhere

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5
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Polite behavior

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Decorum

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6
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To demand and obtain by force or authority

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Exact

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7
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Able to live; capable of success

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Viable

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8
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Causing tears; weeping or inclined to weep

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Lachrymose

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9
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Outward behavior, esp. that reveals one’s personality or atitude

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Demeanor

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10
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A wall or embankment used for a defensive fortification; something serving as a defense or safeguard,often figurative

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Bulwark

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11
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Whole; no part removed

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Intact

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12
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To multiply or reproduce; to transmit; to extend to a wider area

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Propagate

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13
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A great flood

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Deluge

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14
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An abrupt digression or change of course

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Tangent

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15
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A specific talent for doing sonething esp. one that is difficult to reach

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Knack

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16
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trivial details

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minutiae

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17
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individualllydistinct or separate

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discrete

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18
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to desire strongly

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covet

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19
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degree of worth or value

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caliber

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20
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clumsy social error

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gaffe

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21
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of highest importance;chief

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principal

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22
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to speed up

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exoediate

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23
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marked by a new or unusual ways of doing things

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innovative

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24
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to look at or think about carefully; to consider as a possibilty

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contemplate

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25
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to decrease in relative importance

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pale

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26
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essential;necessary to be complete

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integral

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27
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to cut or bite the ends off; to trim

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crop

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28
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v. to be approprate or suitableto; to look good with

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become

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29
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a human finger or toe

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digit

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30
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superiot in status or fame to all others esp. as a generally recognized quality

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preeminent

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31
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a waterfall or series of small waterfalls; a succession of stages, processes, or units

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cascade

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32
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a warning

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caveat

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33
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to protect against possible loss by taking compensatory measures; to avoid making a direct statement

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hedge

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34
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not producing the desired outcome; worthless; proud or conceited

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vain

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35
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an extremely difficult experience

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ordeal

36
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suited to one’s needs or nature; friendly;sympathetic

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congenial

37
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unattractive; plain looking

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homely

38
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to exceed; to go beyond or above the limits

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transcend

39
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to art of public speaking, with attention to delivery

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elocution

40
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prodicing much

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fruitful

41
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the highest point, as of perfection

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acme

42
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warlike

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martial

43
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inclined to find fault; complaing; full of complaint

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querulous

44
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to reach the best or most vigorous stage

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flower

45
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to arrange in order

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marshal

46
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preoccupied with sex and sexual desire

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lewd

47
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made or set apart as holy

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hallowed

48
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heavy

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hefty

49
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an important event

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milestone

50
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to discover with certainty as through examination

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ascertain

51
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foolishly idealistic; extravagantly chivalrous

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quixotic

52
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incapable of bieng removed or erased

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indelible

53
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to perceive and understand so as to make decisions

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discern

54
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to get or earn; collect or gather

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garner

55
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the power to sense or understand something

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insight

56
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careless about one’s own appearance

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slovenly

57
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dull ofr stale; commonplace

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banal

58
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strong and full of health

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robust

59
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anger aroused by something unjust or evil

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indignation

60
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appearing worthy of belief or trust

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plausible

61
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to give off; to emit; to radicate

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exude

62
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strikingly new

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novel

63
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marked by favorable circumstances

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auspicious

64
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emitting light, esp. self-genearated; intellectually brilliant

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luminous

65
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unselective; randon; unrestrained

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indiscriminate

66
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a reminder or a souvenir

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memento

67
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passing with time; remaining only briefly

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transient

68
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moral or artistic honesty; strength of character

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integrity

69
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to suffocate or smother

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stifle

70
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based on experience rather than a theory

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empirical

71
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to defeat

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best

72
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to destroy courage or resolution; to cause to lose unenthusiasm, to disillusion

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dismay

73
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brief in speech; using few words

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laconic

74
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careful about what one says or does; prudent

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discreet

75
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to reecho

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reverberate

76
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to separate( waste matter) and eliminate from the body

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excrete

77
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a surrounding substance within which somehthing else originates or is contained

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matrix

78
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feeling of comtempt or disdain

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scorn

79
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showing too great a willingness to serve or obey

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obsequious

80
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showing friendliness or good will

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amicable

81
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excessively intereet in one’s own appearance, comfort importance, etc

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narcissistic

82
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sharing a common boundary; adjoining

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contiguous

83
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left alone; lonely; deserted

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desolate

84
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to admit, esp. taking personal responsibility for one;s own actions or thoughts

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own

85
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wrongdoing esp, esp, by a public official

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malfeasance

86
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eveness of temper

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equinimity

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