Ap English Language Pt. 9 Flashcards

(40 cards)

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Leery

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Suspicious

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Impregnable

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Totally safe from attack, able to resist defeat

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Bestial

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Beastly animallike

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Lionize

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To treat as a celebrity

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Caustic

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capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.

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Cavalier

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Carefree happy behaving without care

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Demystify

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To remove mystery from; to clarify

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Deplete

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To use up to exhaust

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Emaciated

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Skinny, scrawny, gaunt, especially from hunger

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Embroil

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To involve; caused to fall into disorder

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Feign

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To pretend, give a false impression; to invent falsely

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Fervid

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Passionate, intense, zealous

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Grandiose

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Magnificent and imposing; exaggerated and pretentious

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Gratuitous

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Free, voluntary; unnecessary and unjustified

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Hermetic

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Tightly sealed

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Hegemony

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Leadership, domination, usually by a country

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Inane

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Foolish, silly, lacking significance

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Bevy

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Impromptu

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Spontaneous, without rehearsal

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Livid

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Extremely angered; reddened with anger

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Loiter

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To stand around idly

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Matriculate

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To enroll as a member of a school or college or university

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Maudlin

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Overly sentimental

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Nondescript

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Lacking interesting or distinctive qualities; dull

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Opine
To express an opinion
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Orchestrate
To arrange music for performance; to coordinate, organize
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Paraphrase
To reword, usually in simpler terms
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Pariah
Outcast
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Quiver
To shake slightly, tremble, vibrate
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Quibble
To argue about insignificant and irrelevant details
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Recalcitrant
Resisting authority or control
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Recant
To retract a statement, opinion, etc.
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Scrupulous
Restrained; honest; careful and precise
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Scurrilous
Vulgar, low, Indecent
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Tenet
Belief, doctrine
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Terrestrial
Personally; down to earth, commonplace
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Usurp
To seize by force
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Amalgamate
To mix, to combine
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Amorous
Strongly attracted to love; showing love
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Impoverish
To make poor or bankrupt