9a Flashcards
(134 cards)
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Accrue
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To gather
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Abstemious
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Avoiding extremes
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Acrophobia
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Fear of heights
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Adulterated
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To ruin
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Affront
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Insult
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Alcove
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Small section of a room
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Almanac
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Annual book of statistic
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Ambulatory
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Able to move
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Analogous
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Similar
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Annotator
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Commentator
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Antagonist
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A rival
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Antipathy
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Dislike
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Appalling
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Horrible
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Appropriation
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Setting something aside for a specific use
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Ardent
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Full of strong feeling
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Articulate
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Well spoken
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Assiduous
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Hard working
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Atrophy
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To waste away
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Auspicious
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Favorable
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Aversion
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Hatred
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Baneful
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Harmful
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Bastion
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A fortified place
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Beleaguer
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To burden
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Bemoan
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To regret deeply
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Bequeath
To hand down
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Betoken
Foreshadow
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Billowing
Swelling
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Blithe
Happy
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Boor
Rude person
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Brink
Edge
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Bulwark
Defensive wall
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Caliper
Device that measures thickness
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Capricious
Fickle
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Catcall
Sound of disapproval
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Caulk
To seal
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Celestial
Divine
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Chameleon
A lizard that can change color
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Chortle
To laugh
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Circumspect
Careful
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Clandestine
Secret
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Coarse
Rough
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Cognizant
Aware
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Coined
Created
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Comely
Attractive
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Communal
Shared
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Conciliate
To reconcile
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Confederate
Ally
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Confound
To confuse
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Conjugal
Having to do with marriage
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Consummate
To complete
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Contravene
To go against
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Copious
Plentiful
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Cosmographer
One who studies the Oder of the universe
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Creed
A system of beliefs
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Culinary
Relating to cooking
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Curtail
To shorten
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Dearth
A shortage
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Debunk
To expose and untruth
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Deed
Act
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Deftly
Skillfully
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Deleterious
Harmful
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Depose
To remove from office
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Desiccate
To dry out
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Desultory
Aimless
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Devoid
Missing
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Diatribe
Angry speech attacking someone
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Digress
To ramble
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Din
Loud noise
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Disband
To separate
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Discursive
Wandering from one topic to another
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Disparate
Different
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Disseminate
To spread widely
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Dissuade
To persuade someone not to do something
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Divest
To take something away from someone else
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Dolt
Stupid person
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Dour
Unfriendly
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drone
One who talks constantly
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Duplicity
Hypocrisy
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Edict
A command by an authority
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Effigy
A statue or image of a person
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Elegiac
Sad
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Elucidate
To make clear
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Embellish
Exaggerate
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Emphysema
Lung disease
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Encipher
To disguise
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Entrenched
Stuck
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Ephemeral
Short lived
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Equivocate
To keep changing ones minds
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Estrange
To keep a distance
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Euphony
Harmony
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Excursion
Trip
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Exorcism
Removing evil spirits
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Exposition
Explanation
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Extraneous
Extra
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Eyesore
Ugly thing
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Facsimile
Exact copy
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Fatuous
Silly
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Fervor
Enthusiasm
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Fiendish
Evil
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Flaunt
To show off
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Flout
To reject openly
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Forensics
Study of argumentation
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Fountainhead
Beginning
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Frugal
Thrifty
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Fussbudget
Fussy person
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Galleon
Large ship
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Gamut
Entire range of something
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Garrulous
Overly talkative
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Genre
Type
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Geyser
Spring that shoots up hot water
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Girth
Width
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Glum
Sad
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Grating
Irritating
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Hamlet
Small town
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Helmsman
One who steers a ship
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Hone
To sharper
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Ignoramus
One who knows nothing
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Impetuous
Impulsive
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Impropriety
Improper behavior
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Incessant
Never ending
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Inanimate
Not alive
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Incontestable
Unquestionable
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Inculcate
To teach through repetition
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Indices
Measures
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Indomitable
Too powerful to be conquered
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Inextricable
Impossible to remove
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Iniquity
Wickedness
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Infraction
Illegal act
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Inoculation
Injection to prevent disease
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Insular
Isolated
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Intersperses
To place or scatter something throughout something else
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Inundation
Flood
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Invocation
Prayer
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Irreverence
Lack if respect
