Bethany Vocab Flashcards
(107 cards)
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Acquire
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To get hold of something
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Impose
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To make someone do something
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Apprehensive
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Being nervous or dreading something
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Reinstate
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To restore
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Summon
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To send for someone
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Innovative
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Always thinking of a new idea - imaginative
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Moult
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Losing hair
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Annex
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An extra room built onto a building
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Adjourn
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To suspend to a later date
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Suspend
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A dangling object
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Novel
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A new imaginative idea
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Commiserate
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To feel sorry for someone (feeling pity)
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Dejected
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Feeling down in the dumps / disheartened
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Venerate
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Showing deep respect towards someone
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Commend
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To praise or give a positive reaction to something
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Inconsequentiat
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A thing of no importance
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Paramount
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A very important thing
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Onerous
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Something hard / difficult
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Formidable
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Something that causes fear (Leicester are a formidable team)
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Scrutinise
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To examine something closely
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Haughty
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Thinking you are better than everyone else
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Resourceful
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Finding ways to deal with problems
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Frail
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Week and fragile
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Puny
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Being skinny
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Hearty
Someone strong
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Overbearing
Unpleasantly overpowering - rude / arrogant / forceful
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Meek
Being kind and gentle
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Diplomatic
Being super courteous
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Courteous
An extremely polite person
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Aloof
Describing an unapproachable person
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Unity
Being as one with your community
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Liberate
Being free
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Pulverise
To hit or pound
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Mangle
To squeeze very hard till out of shape
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Admit
Verb - not confess, To allow to enter
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Concede
To admit or confess
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Garb
Clothes or fashion like an uniform
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Sultan
A leader of high importance like a king
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Weld
When you melt down metal to forge it together
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Eclipse
When the moon perfectly aligns with the sun
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Eclipse
Some one of some thing outshining others
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Civil
Describing of someone slightly polite
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Accelerate
To go faster - usually in a car
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Scanty
Describing a little amount - barely enough
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Opulent
Expensive / luxury
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Demure
Quiet, reserved or shy
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Barter
To trade or swap without money
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Unobtrusive
Being hard to notice or spot
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Coppice
Small, newly planted trees or shrubs
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Heath
Am area of land on sandy soil with plant growth
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Solitude
Being alone but not lonely (time to reset / relax your mind)
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Canter
The nearly top speed of a horse like a human jogging.
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Brood
Acting grumpy or dwelling on something
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Benign
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Surly
Grumpy, bad tempered and aloof
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Serendipity
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Compel
To make someone do something
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Contempt / disdain
Looking at someone in disgrace.
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Incessant
Constant - non stop
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Brisk
Doing something quick / energetic
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Virtue
Goodness
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Recollect
To look back at something
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Sleek
Silky and soft
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Consciousness
A hard working person who wants to please
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Flaw
A weakness to a function
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Feign
To pretend or act
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Melodramatic
Being very over dramatic
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Slapdash
Being careless
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Mortified
Something extremely embarrassing / want the world to 'swallow you up'
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Appease
To pacify someone - such as to 'appease' an angry king.
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Outmoded
Something old-fashioned/ out dated.
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Exuberant
Full of energy / excitement.
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Laudable
Describing something worth of praise
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Cultivate
To develop or learn a skill
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Unintelligible
Something nonsense
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Apathy
No interest / lack of enthusiasm
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Comprehend
To understand
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Outmoded
Old fashioned
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Exuberant
Over the moon / really excited
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Appease
To calm someone down who is angry
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Destitute
No money / skint
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Privileged
Having a good amount of wealth
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Ancestor
Family who came before you
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Raucous
Loud and rowdy
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Seldom
Not very often
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Precursor
Something that came before something else
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Correlate
Something that causes a consequence
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Anorak n
A light rain coat
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Anorak n
A light rain coat
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Encore (N)
When a performer adds to their act.
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Darn (v)
To sew together something wollen
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Frank (a)
Being honest, open.
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Credible / plausible
Convincing - easy to believe.
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Abundant
Having something in large amounts
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Unbridled (a)
Out of control
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Unbridled (a)
Out of control
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Conceited (a)
Excessively proud - too much
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Competent (a)
Something that is worth praise but not perfect.
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Erratic (a)
Unpredictable / no pattern
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Affect
Having an effect on something, it changing in some way.
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Effect
Something that causes a change in something
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Effect
Something that causes a change in something
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Rebate
Giving money back to someone who has overpaid
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Rebate
Giving money back to someone who has overpaid
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Superior (a)
Describing something better than usual
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Superior (a)
Describing something better than usual
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Inferior (a)
Describing something worse than usual
