751-800 Flashcards by Arfa Shaik

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savor

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to taste or smell

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fluster

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to make nervous or upset

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relief

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a distinction or a prominence due to contrast

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habitat

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a place where a person or thing is

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platitude

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a commonplace remark delivered as if it were important

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sabotage

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to deliberately obstruct or destruct

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minutiae

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trivial details

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effervescent

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giving off gas bubbles

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desiccate

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to dry completely

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gregarious

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seeking and enjoying the company of others

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sojourn

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a brief visit

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listless

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having no interest in what is going on about one

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secular

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not religous

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defer

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to delay

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surfeit

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an excess

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compunction

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feeling of uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt

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decapitate

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to cut off the head

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rejuvenate

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to restore energy or an appearance of youth

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chronology

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arrangements of events in time

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provincial

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limited in perspective

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pliant

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easily bent

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melodramatic

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exaggeratedly emotional or compliant

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paramount

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supreme

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precocious

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developing earlier than usual

syntax

the way words are arranged to form phrases, clauses

euphoria

a feeling of great happiness

detach

to separate from a larger mass

animosity

bitter hostility

bard

a poet

revere

to honor

guffaw

to laugh loudly and crudely

inveterate

established for a long time

tenable

able to be maintained in argument

mitigate

to improve by lessening the severity of

giddy

dizzy

diction

word choice is speech or writing

negligent

careless

omnipotent

all-powerful

propagate

to multiply or reproduce

malinger

to act sick in order to avoid work

convene

to bring together

eschew

to avoid

arable

suitable for growing crops (of land)

optimum

the most favorable point or condition

err

to make mistake

scoff

to make fun of

saturate

to soak or fill to capacity

excruciating

severely painful

douse

to wet thoroughly

restitution

compensation for a loss