ALL vocab 1-7

Question 1

run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

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Abscond

Question 2

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

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Bias

Question 3

emotionally hardened

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Callous

Question 4

give over to another for care or safekeeping

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consign

Question 5

cause to separate and go in different directions

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Dispel

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strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

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Emulate

Question 7

occurring by happy chance

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Fortuitous

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attribute or credit to

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Impute

Question 9

the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group

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Mores

Question 10

a trite or obvious remark

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Platitude

Question 11

having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

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Adept

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support and strengthen

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Bolster

Question 13

the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech

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Candor

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fraught with uncertainty or doubt

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Dubious

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have as a logical consequence

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Entail

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grow vigorously

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Flourish

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bestow a quality on

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Impart

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lacking any legal or binding force

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Null

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(architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or a tower

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Pinnacle

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marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

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Savvy

Question 21

a feeling of profound respect for someone or something

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Reverence

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an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding

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Depredation

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steal goods; take as spoils

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Plunder

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anger; irritability

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Ire

Question 25

fill something that had previously been emptied

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Replenish

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search haphazardly

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Rummage

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careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment

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Prudent

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utter or proclaim insistently and noisily

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Clamor

Question 29

a cry of sorrow and grief

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Lament

Question 30

a state of danger involving risk

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Peril

Question 31

a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea

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Advocate

Question 32

make a more or less disguised reference to

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Allude

Question 33

quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively

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Brawl

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contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions

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Complacent

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inadequate in amount or degree

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Deficient

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liable to sudden unpredictable change

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Erratic

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used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person

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Imposing

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marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself

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Modest

Question 39

having or wielding force or authority

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Potent

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a prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward

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Spur

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follow in or as if in pursuit

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Pursue

Question 42

uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result

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Futility

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a felling of joy and pride

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Elation

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undergo or be subjected to

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Endure

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force somebody to do something

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Compel

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recurring again and again

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Recurrent

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the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle

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Transgression

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not genuine; imitating something superior

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Counterfeit

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showing inventiveness and skill

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Cunning

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expel, as if by official decree

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Banish

Question 51

rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration / (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

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Meter

Question 52

correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines

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Rhyme

Question 53

the property of sounding harmonious

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Consonance

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the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning

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Symbolism

Question 55

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse

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Alliteration

Question 56

using words that imitate the sound they denote

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Onomatopoeia

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a statement that contradicts itself

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Paradox

Question 58

the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

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Personification

Question 59

a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

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Metaphor

Question 60

a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

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Simile

Question 61

extravagant exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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the ability to form mental images of things or events

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Imagery

Question 63

a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

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Sonnet

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speech you make yourself

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Soliloquy

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on or to one side

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Aside

Question 66

something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

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Impediment

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pilgrims who have undertaken a pilgrimage

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Palmers

Question 68

showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages

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Envious

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a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

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Rancor

Question 69

lack of agreement and harmony

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Discords

Question 70

quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively

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Brawl

Question 71

expel, as if by official decree

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Banish