A+ Academy- Week 5 Flashcards
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Aspirant
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Candidate for high position
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Solace
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Easing of grief, comfort or consolation
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Dregs
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Most worthless part, remains
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Frenzy
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Wild fit
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Scurrilous
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Coarse, rude
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Rampant
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Going unchecked, widespread
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Inane
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Foolish, silly, stupid
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Ethics
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Code of principles
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Concur
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Agree
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Clandestine
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Secret, undercover
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Flagrant
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Outrageous, glaringly bad
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Admonish
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To warn, to reprove / scold, reprimand
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Duress
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Compulsion, force, threats, pressure
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Culprit
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The guilty person
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Inexorable
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Inflexible, unrelenting, impossible to stop of prevent
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Egregious
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Remarkable bad, terrible, horrendous
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Distraught
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Mentally confused, crazed
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Duplicity
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Cunning, trickery
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Acrimonious
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Bitter, harsh, cutting
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Paucity
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Scarcity, poverty, lack, deficiency
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Tact
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Sensitivity, understanding
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Undermine
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Damage or weaken (gradually); erode
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Exacerbate
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To make worse
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Concocted
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Create or devise
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Bigoted
Prejudiced, biased, one- sided
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Scuttle
Deliberately cause (a scheme) to fail
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Encroaching
Invading
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Tome
Long scholarly book
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Heterodox
Unorthodox, contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard
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Abstraction
Elimination
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Predilection
A preference or special liking in something
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Reneged
To back on a promise or contract
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Capricious
Fickle, inconsistent
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Infringed
Violate, break the terms
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Dilatory
Slow to act
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Acquiesced
Accept reluctantly, but without protest
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Contentious
Causing or likely to cause an argument
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Veracious
Speaking or representing the truth
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Absconded
Leave hurriedly and secretly, flee
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Conscientious
Do one's work or duty well and thoroughly, diligent, hard working
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Adept
Expert, skillfull
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Vicarious
Experienced in the imagination through feelings or action of another person; indirect, secondary
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Torpid
Mentally or physically inactive
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Quiescent
Inactive, idle, quiet
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Hackneyed
Lacking significance through having been overused, unoriginal
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Divulge
Make known (private or sensitive information)
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Denote
Be a sign of, indicate
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Proscribe
Forbid, prohibit/ denounce or condemn
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Ascribe
To credit or assign, as to a cause or source
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Blight
A plant disease
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Precocious
Child having developed abilities at an earlier age
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Foppish
(Man) concerned with clothes in an excessive way
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Prima Donna
Lead singer in an opera (female)
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Ebullient
Cheerful, full of energy
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Fêted
Honor or entertain (someone) lavishly
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Surmise
Suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it
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Premeditated
Think out or plan (an action, esp. a crime) beforehand
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Concatenation
A series of interconnected things or event
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Remiss
Lacking care or attention to duty, neglectful
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Corporeal
Of or relating to a person's body/ having a body
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Corporal
Low rank in military// of or relating to he human body
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Corpulent
Fat
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Urbane
Suave, courteous, refined in manner
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Banal
So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring, overdone
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Boorish
Rough and bad- mannered, coarse
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Usury
Illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest
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Serendipity
Occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way
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Trepidation
Fear, dread
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Dilettante
A person who cultivates an area of interest without real commitment or knowledge
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Martinet
A person who is very strict
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Martyr
Someone killed for their beliefs
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Sycophant
Suck up, someone who acts obsequious toward someone important to gain an advantage
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Enervated
Weaken
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Allocated
Distribute for a particular purpose (resource, duty)
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Dispelled
Make (doubt, feeling, belief) disappear, alleviate
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Berated
Scold or criticize angrily
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Pontoon
A flat bottomed boat used as one of the supports for a temporary bridge over a river
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Facade
Face of a building
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Facet
One side of something many sided (gem); a part or element of something
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Cupola
A rounded roof or part of a roof (dome); light structure on dome or roof
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Intractable
Hard to control or deal with
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Docile
Ready to accept control or instruction, obedient, cooperative
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Equine
Of, relating to, or affecting horses
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Bovine
Of, relating to, or affecting cows
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Dactylic
Foot in poetic meter
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Disengaging
Separate or release from something to which if is attached or connected, remove
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Deleterious
Causing harm or damage
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Delectable
Delicious
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Irrespective
Not taking (something) into account
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Copious
Abundant in supply or quantity
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Insipid
Lacking flavor or vigor or interest
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Laconic
Using very few words
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Prudish
Fussy, strict; shocked by matters departing to sex/ nudity
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Profuse
Lavish, extravagant (person)
| Plentiful, abundant (things)
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Overwrought
State of nervous excitement or anxiety
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Portly
(Man) having a stout body, somewhat fat
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Pugilistic
A boxer, someone who fights with the fists
