Day 10-12 Flashcards

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Disillusion

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To free from or deprive of illusion

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Sporadic

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Infrequent, irregular

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Conflagration

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Destructive fire

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Amalgamate

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To mix, to combine

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Aberration

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Something different from the usual

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Analogous

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Comparable, similar, parallel

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Deride

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To scoff, ridicule, mock

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Patrician

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Aristocrat

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Chide

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To scold, express disapproval

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Resuscitate

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To revive, to bring back to life

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Insolence

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An attitude or behavior that is bold and disrespectful

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Substantiate

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To verify or support by evidence

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Belie

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To present a false or contradictory argument

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Coalesce

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To grow together or cause to unite as one

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Equanimity

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Calmness, composure

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Truculent

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Aggressive, hostile, belligerent

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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Unequivocal

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Absolute, certain

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Esoteric

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Understood by only a learned few

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Stilted

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Stifle, unnatural

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Presumptuous

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Going beyond the limits of courtesy or appropriateness

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Pedagogue

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Teacher

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Restitution

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Act of compensating for loss or damage

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Exacerbate

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To aggravate, worsen

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Mar
To damage, deface, spoil
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Denounce
To accuse, blame, decry
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Spurious
Not genuine or authentic
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Opt
To decide to leave or withdraw, to make a choice
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Supplant
Replace, substitute, displace
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Finagle
To trick, swindle, cheat
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Winnow
To drive, blow away
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Exult
To rejoice, extreme happiness
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Cabal
Small group of secret plotters
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Tawdry
Gaudy, cheap, showy
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Unremitting
Not slackening or abating, incessant
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Taut
Emotionally or mentally strained or tense
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Unequivocal
Absolute, unqualified
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Rhetoric
Persuasive use of language
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Surfeit
Excessive amount, exceeded
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Juxtapose
To put side by side
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Phlegmatic
Sluggish and unemotional in temperament
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Apathy
Lack of concern, interest, or emotion
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Penurious
extremely frugal, stingy, curmudgeon
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frugal
spending little, thirfty
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thereafter
after that in time, sequence
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transcend
surperior, surpass, excel
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abash
to destroy the self-confidence
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taciturn
inclined to silence, reserved in speech
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ancillary
subordinate, subsidiary, assisting
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taxonomy
science of classification
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accost
approach, especially with a greeting
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convene
to meet, to come together, to assemble
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tangential
digressing, diverting
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culmination
climax, final stage
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exobitant
extravagant, greater than reasonable
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mitigate
to make less severe, to relieve
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squelch
to put down, suppress, silence
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alacrity
promptness, speed
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recriminate
to accuse, often in response to an accusation
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avow
to declare frankly or openly
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exacerbate
to make worse or more sever
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delineate
to outline, describe