Advance Word List Flashcards
(121 cards)
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Abate
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reduce intensity
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abjure
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renounce, swear to refrain from something
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blandishment
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words used to coax of flatter
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boor
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ill mannered person
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cardinal
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highranking church official
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equivocation
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speaking ambiguously
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feckless
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feeble, helpless, lacing in initaitive
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imperturbability
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quality of being calm and not easily disturbed
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meretricious
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falsely attractive, tawdry
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augury
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prediction, looking for omens
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glib
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slick, superficial esp in speech
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incise
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cut into
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moralistic
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concerned with morals
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ostracism
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shunning
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penchant
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inclination, leaning, tendency, predilection
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rarefy
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make less dense
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repine
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fret, be discontented
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stipulate
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specify
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diaphanous
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transparent, thin and delicate
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feint
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pretended attack, a move intended to deceive
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inured
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hardened, habituated
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mettlesome
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spirited
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puissance
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power
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recondite
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obscure
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stygian
very dark
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touting
advertising, supporting
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virtuosity
skill, expertise
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volubility
excessive talkativeness
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caret
punctuation mark signifying omission
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contiguous
adjacent, touching, abutting
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damp
reduce in extent
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ellipsis
ommission of essential words
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extirpation
wiping out, complete destruction
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foppish
behaving or dressing like a dandy, excessively concerned with fashion
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gaffe
blunder, social mistake
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horatory
encouraging, exhorting
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opprobrious
expressing great scorn
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recumbent
reclining, lying down
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culpability
guild
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encomium
praise
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inveigle
coax, cajole, wheedle, entice
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minatory
threatening
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ossified
turned to bone
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plumb
measure depth, exact
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quintessential
most typical, the perfect example of
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runic
mysterious, magical
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accretion
accumulation of matter, growth produced by adding from the outside
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anachrosonistic
occurring in the worng time period
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chronic
long lasting
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churlishness
rudeness, ill mannered behavior
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demagogue
mob leader
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effrontery
daring, audacity
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idyll
story or incident in peaceful or ideal setting
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interregnum
interval between reigns or governments
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nugatory
or minor significance, futile
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sinecure
job which pays salary but requiring little effort
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anodized
electroplated, coated with a thin layer of metal
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aphoristic
expressed tersely
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canonical
orthodox
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commensurate
equal in significance
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extant
still in existence
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impugned
challenged, called into question
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probity
uprightness, honesty
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reaconteur
person who relates a story
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solicitous
kindly, expressing care and concern
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amalgamate
join, consolidate
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baleful
evil
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inchoate
undeveloped, nascent
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iniquitous
evil, unjust
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libertine
dissolute person, prodigal
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mllinery
hats and hat making
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natty
neat, dapper, smart
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occluded
obscured, blocked
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sidereal
of or related to stars
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avaricious
greedy for money
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extirpate
wipe out totally
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halcyon
peaceful and happy, calm
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list
to lean to one side
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mauldin
sad, sentimental, inclined to weep
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refulgent
glowing, radiant
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subliminal
below the threshold of consciousness
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testiness
irritablility,
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vituperate
attack bitterly
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whittle
carve with a knife, reduce step by step
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diaphanous
transparent, thin and delicate
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epistemology
theory of knowledge
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froward
stubborn, wayward, disobedient
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supine
lying flat on ones back
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throwback
exhibiting primitive, or ancestral, traits
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untoward
unexpected
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verisimilar
true to life, giving the appearance of reality
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abysmal
very deep very bad
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approbation
approval
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bent
inclination, aptitude
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cadge
get by begging
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debacle
disatster
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extemporiz3e
speak without prepareation or rehearsal
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incumbents
occupiers of a job or position
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lambaste
attack verbally
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noisome
disgusting
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pastiche
work, usually artistic, which imitates, or is composed of parts taken from varied sorues
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aboreal
living in the trees, concerned with trees
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clositered
isolated
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disabuse
make someone aware of an error in thinking
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engendering
causing, bringing into being
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interperate
excessive
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lugubrious
sad, gloomy
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nonplussed
confused
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pedagogy
science of education, teaching
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satieate
satsify, fill completely
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slake
quench, satisfy
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artless
without effort, without tricker, simple
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comeliness
beauty, prettiness
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doff
take off, (esp of a hat)
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don
put on (esp of lothes)
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erudition
learnign, scholarly knowledge
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plaintive,
sad, mournful
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suborn
bribe
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tendentious
dogmatic, biased
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tortuous
indirect, winding
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verbiage
excessive or meaningless workiness
