Chapter One Flashcards by Zariah Graham

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Algorithm

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Mechanical problem-solving procedure

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Immerse

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To engross, preoccupy

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Excruciating

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Agonizing, intensely painful

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Oration

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Lecture, formal speech

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Exuberant

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Lively, enthusiastic

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Cast (verb)

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To fling, to throw

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Pudgy

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Chubby, overweight

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Cherubic

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Sweet, innocent, resembling a cherub angel

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Effusive

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Expressing emotion without restraint

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Loiter

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To stand around idly with no obvious purpose

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Adroitly

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Skillfully

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Cuisine

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Style of cooking

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Corpulence

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Obesity, bulkiness

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Secluded

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Isolated, remote

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Vie

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To strive for superiority, compete

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Inept

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Clumsy, awkward

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Acquiesce

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To accept without opposition; comply quietly

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Alienate

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To make unfriendly or hostile where there had formerly been affection

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Ebb

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To recede, decline (as the tide)

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Adjacent

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Next to

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Aptly

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Appropriately, suitable, accurately

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Hamlet

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Small village

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Perpetual

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Endless, lasting

Accrue

To accumulate, grow by additions

Magnate

Powerful or influential person

Patrician (adj.)

Aristocratic

Grandiose

Magnificent and imposing; exaggerated and pretentious

Meticulously

Carefully, painstakingly

Phalanx

Massed group of people, animals, or things

Magnanimous

Generous, noble in spirit

Progenitor

Originator, forefather, ancestor in a direct line

Depict

To represent by or as if by a picture

Retort (verb)

To answer back in a sharp manner

Band

A source of harm or ruin

Façade

Face, font; mask, superficial appearance

Sobriquet

Nickname

Dilapidated

In despair, run down, neglected

Emanate

To come or send forth, as from source

Laceration

Cut, wound

Veracity

Accuracy, truth

Expunge

To erase, eliminate completely

Accrue

To accumulate, grow by addition

Pediment

Triangular gable on a roof or facade

Muse (verb)

To wonder about

Orb

Spherical body