At the Pulpit Flashcards
1
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Formidable
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Causing fear, apprehension or dread
2
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Enigma
A
- a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence
- a person of puzzling or contradictory character
3
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Surmise
A
Conjecture
4
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Ambivalence
A
Uncertainty, esp caused by the inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to do 2 opposing things
5
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Sordid
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Morally ignoble or vile
6
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Lament
A
To feel or express sorrow and regret
7
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Query
A
A question or inquiry
8
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Diminutive
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Small; little
9
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Vacuous
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- empty
- lacking in ideas or intelligence
10
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Reverie
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A state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing
11
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Conciliatory
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- to overcome distrust or hostility
- to win over
12
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Emphatic
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- strongly expressive
- forceful, insistent
13
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Elegy
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A mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem (ex. Funeral song)
- dirge
14
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Cognizant
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To be aware
15
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Inexplicable
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Incapable of being explained
