700 Flashcards

(36 cards)

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Etiquette

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Rules governing socially accepted behaviour

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Tangible

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Clearly seen to be exist

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Ephemeral

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Lasting or used for a very short time

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Metronomic

Friable

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Happening regularly

Easily broken into pieces

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5
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Fatalism

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Submission to all that happens

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Pragmatism

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Thinking about solving a problem in practical way rather than using theories and formula

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Pragmatism

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Thinking about solving a problem in practical way rather than using theories and formula

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Premiere

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First public show of film or musical event

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9
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Embezzlement

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The act of stealing money to which you are responsible

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Debasememt

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More like defamation

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Evoluted

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Geometric curve

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Evaded

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To escape from somebody or something

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Orchard

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Place qhere fruit trees are grown

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Antagonist

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Person who strongly opposes something or somebody

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Rhetoric

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Speech or writing that is to motivate people but need not be true

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16
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Recitation

Rhapsody

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To repeat something aloud to keep in mind (memoriaing)

Epic poem adapted for memorising(unachi ponga vaikum)

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Quinquagenarian

Nonagenarian

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Person in 50-59

Person in 90-99

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extirpate
Expropriate
Exile

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Destroy
To officially take away a private property
Expel from a country

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Polycarp

Polymath

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Christian martyr

Person who knows lot about different subject

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Misologist

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One who hates reason , enlightenment and arguememt

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Nelomania
Kosmomania
Melanomania

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Obsession for glass
Onsession to cosmos / cosmic
Obsession to black colour

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Abstain

Abrogate

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To choose not to vote for sometjing

To officially end a law or an agreement

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Palliation

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To make a disease or pain lesser

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Dilettante

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Not doing or studying something seriously

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Rustic | Bizarre
Simple | Weird , very strange
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Arachnology
Study of spiders and scorpions
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Enigmatic(esortic)
Unknown or not understandable person
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Archipelago Islet Reef Atoll
Group of islands Very small island Long line of rocks near sea Island containing coral reef surrounding a water body
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innuendo
Indirectly say rude or bad thing about a person
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Neophytr
A person who recently started an activity
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mint | Cannery
Place where money or coins a made | Factory where food is canned
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Panjandrum(tycoon,magnate)
Influential person
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Malapropism
Amusing mistake somebody makes by using a similar sounding wrong word
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Spoonerism Blooper Corpsing
Change of first word while pronuncing Embarassing mistake Spoiling a whole play by forgetting ones line
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Cerography
Designing or writing in wax
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Puerile
Suitable for child(silly)