Ap English Language pt. 3 Flashcards

(40 cards)

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Benign

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Kindly, gentle, or harmless

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Accolade

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Praise, distinction

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Carnivorous

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Meat-eating

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Deflation

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Decrease, depreciation

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Embezzle

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To steal money in violation of a trust

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Fetter

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To bind, chain, confine

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Gluttony

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Eating and drinking to excess (to much)

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Heighten

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To raise

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Impeccable

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Flawless, without fault

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Legible

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Readable

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Invalid

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A chronically I’ll or disabled person

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Sullenly

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Gloomy or sadly

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Mournful

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Feeling or expressing grief

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Infallibility

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The state of being incapable to fail

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Blight

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A disease or something that withers hopes or impairs growth

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Doggedness

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Stubborn, not yielding

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Reiterate

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To stay over again; repeat

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Naught

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Vermilion

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A vivid red to reddish orange color

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Iridescent

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Producing bright rainbow like-colors

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Martyr

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Person dying for his or her belief

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Notoriety

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Unfavorable fame

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Pedantic

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Ostentatious in one’s learning; overly concerned with minute details or formalisms

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Parch

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To dry or shrivel

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Regress
To move backwards; revert to an earlier form or state
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Savant
Learned person; genius
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Tenuous
Weak, insubstantial
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Utopia
Perfect place
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Vindicate
To clear of blame; support a claim
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Withdraw
Draw back, take out; person who is timid
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Buoyancy
The tendency to remain afloat in a liquid
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Burgeon
To begin to grow, sprout, flourish
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Evanesce
To disappear gradually; fade away; vanish
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Prod
To jab or poke
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Shrivel
To shrink and wrinkle
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Glisten
To shine with reflected light
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Heresy
An opinion or doctrine that is different from established religions beliefs
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Precariously
Dangerously lacking in stability
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Tremendous
Extremely large; enormous
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Loll
To recline lazily; to hang laxly