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CUMULATIVE VOCAB WORDS Flashcards

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Apprehensive

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uneasy or fearful about something that might happen

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Ardent

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characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent; intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic; zealous; vehement; fierce

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Arrogant

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making claims or pretentions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud

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Audacious

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extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless

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Baffled

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to confuse, bewilder, or perplex

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Bantering

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good-humored, playful conversation

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Belligerent

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warlike; given to waging war

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Bemused

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bewildered or confused/lost in thought; preoccupied

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Benevolent

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characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings

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Bewildered

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completely puzzled or confused; perplexed

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Apostrophy

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when a person/speaker addresses someone who is not present or an inanimate object

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allusion

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to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly’ an indirect or passing reference

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pedantic

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Overly academic or scholarly; providing knowledge in a way that shows off or is tiresome, i.e. using big words and lots of jargon

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Querulous

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complaining, whining, petulant

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Petulant

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childishly sulky or bad-tempered

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anectodal

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based on personal accounts rather than facts or research

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Polemical

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strongly attacking or defending a particular opinion, person, idea, or set of beliefs

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Pragmatic

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practical, especially when making decisions; sensible, grounded

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Didactic

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something in intended to teach or instruct, especially moral or ethical principles

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Acerbic

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sharply or bitingly critical, sarcastic, or ironic in tone, mood, or temper.

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Enigmatic

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something is mysterious, difficult to understand, or hard to solve

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Abashed

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ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted

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Abhorring

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to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe;abominate

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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Acerbic
harsh or severe, as of temper or expression- wit
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Admonishing
cautioning, advising, or counseling against something; reproving or scolding, especially in a mild and good-willed manner; reminding
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Ambiguous
open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations
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Ambivalent
uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say to do two opposite or conflicting things
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antagonistic
acting in opposition; opposing, especially mutually/hostile; unfriendly
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Apathetic
having or showing little or no emotion/not interesting or concerned; indifferent or unresponsive
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ad hominem
“to the man” when you attack the person rather than the argument
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Blithe
joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful
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Brusque
Abrupt in manner; blunt; rough
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burlesque
an artistic composition (literary or dramatic), vulgarizes for laughter, treats material with mock dignity
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Candid
frank; outspoken; open and sincere/free from reservation-- real
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Capricious
flighty; led by whims, erratic
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caustic
making biting, corrosive comments
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biting
nipping, hurtful, keen/cutting; sarcastic
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censorious
severely critical; faultfinding
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ceremonial
formal, ritual, related to ceremony
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anaphora
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences
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choleric
extremely irritable or easily angered
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clinical
scientific, based on actual observation' analytic, unemotionally critical; objective and realistic
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colloquial
characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; INFORMAL
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Conciliatory
to overcome the distrust animosity of; appease, to make amends
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condemnatory
to express strong disapproval
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condescending
to speak down to/ spoken down to, showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority
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contemptuous
showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful
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contentious
tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome/causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy
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curt
rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner/brief; concise; terse; laconic
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Antithesis
the use of contrasting parallel structures representing absolute opposites
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Cynical
scornful of the motives or virtues of others; bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic
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Derisive
characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking
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Derogatory
tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory
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Detached
impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased/ not involved or concerned; aloof
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Diabolic
having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked
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Diffident
lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy
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Disdainful
expressing extreme content
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Dogmatic
asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant matter; opinionated
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Domineering
overbearing; tyrannical
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Chiasmas
words or phrases repeated in reverse order-- either in the exact same order or modified form (Ex: "And those tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them")
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Dubious
Wavering or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt
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Earnest
serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous
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Ebullient
overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited
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Ecstatic
subject to or in a state of ecstasy; rapturous
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Effusive
unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve
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Egotistical
given to talking bout oneself; vain; boastful; opinionated; indifferent to the well-being of others; selfish
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Elated
very happy or proud; jubilant; in high spirits
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Elegiac
expressing sorrow or lamentation
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Elevated
exalted or noble; lofty
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Metonymy
replacing an actual word or idea with a related word or concept
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eloquent
having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech
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empathetic
comprehension to the state of others
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enraged
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate
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erudite
characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly
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eulogistic
to praise highly in speech or writing, especially in a formal eulogy
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euphoric
a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in a pathological state of mania
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evasive
deliberately vague or ambiguous/tending or seeking to evade; characterized by evasion
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exhoratory
advising, urging, or cautioning earnestly; urgently admonishing
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exuberant
effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant
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euphemism
word or phrase to replace an unpleasant word or phrase
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facetious
not meant to be taken seriously or literally/amusing; humorous
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fanciful
characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance
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farcical
ludicrous; absurd; mocking; humorous and highly improbable
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fatalistic
the acceptance of al things and events as inevitable; submission to fate
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fervent
having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc
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flippant
frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity
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foreboding
a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment
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forthright
going straight to the point; frank; direct; outspoken
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connotation
the intellectual or emotional interpretation of a term
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denotation
the textbook definition of a term

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