AAAAAA Flashcards
(61 cards)
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Apprehension
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Fear about the future
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Harbinger
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Something that indicates what is to come
3
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Ominous
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Menacing
4
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Premonition
A
A feeling about the future
5
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Timorous
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Timid
6
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Trepidation
A
Uncertainty
7
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Innovative
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Introducing something new
8
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Naive
A
Lacking sophistication
9
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Nascent
A
Emerging
10
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Novel
A
Unusual
11
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Novice
A
A beginner
12
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Candor
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Openness
13
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Frank
A
Straightforward
14
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Arid
A
Rainless climate
15
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Conflagration
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A widespread fire
16
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Nocturnal
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Occurring in the night
17
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Sonorous
A
Full sound
18
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Ample
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Large amount
19
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Comprehensive
A
Large in scope
20
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Copious
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Plentiful
21
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Permeated
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Flowing throughout
22
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Pervasive
A
Dispersed throughout
23
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Prodigious
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Enormous
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Replete
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Filled to capacity
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Exemplary
Worthy of imitation
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Idealize
To consider perfect
27
Laudatory
Giving praise
28
Paramount
Of chief concern
29
Venerated
Highly respected
30
Catalog
To make an itemized list of
31
Facile
Easy
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Fastidious
Difficult to please
33
Hierarchy
Organized by rank
34
Meticulous
Precise
35
Pragmatic
Practical
36
Solvent
Able to pay one's debts
37
Abstract
Not applied to actual object
38
Anachronism
Out of place
39
Anthropomorphism
Attribution of human like
40
Apology
Defense of an idea
41
Apparatus
Equipment
42
Apposition
A grammar
43
Archetype
A perfect example
44
Chiasmus
An inversion
45
Gesticulating
Making gestures
46
Hypothetical
Speculation
47
Lexicon
A dictionary
48
Metonymy
Term is substituted
49
Oxymoron
Contradiction
50
Panegyric
High praise
51
Paradigm
An example
52
Parallelism
Two identical syntactic
53
Period
Correct sentence
54
Pernicious
Causing great harm
55
Phenomenon
Unusual events
56
Propitious
Favorable circumstances
57
Rational
Logical
58
Sardonic
Caustic
59
Syllogism
Deductive reasoning
60
Synecdoche
Part signify whole
61
Theoretical
Lacking application
