Deck 5 Flashcards
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Peruse
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tr. v.
1. To read or examine, typically with great care., thoroughly.
2. Usage Problem To glance over; skim.
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Pernicious
adj
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Adj.
- exceedingly harmful, noxious.
- working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; “an insidious disease”; “a subtle poison”
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Squalid
adj
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adj.
- Dirty or deteriorated, especially from poverty or lack of care. See Synonyms at dirty.
- Morally repulsive; sordid: “the squalid atmosphere of intrigue, betrayal, and counterbetrayal” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
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Neophyte
n
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- A beginner or novice: a neophyte at politics.
2. A recent convert to a belief; a proselyte.
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Urbane
adj
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Polite, refined, and often elegant in manner.
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Dissemble
v
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To disguise or conceal one’s real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance.
To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance.
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Vilify
v
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tr. v.
1. To attack the reputation of (a person or thing) with strong or abusive criticism.
2. to revile with abusive or defamatory language; malign: “he has been vilified in the tabloid press.”
2. to make vile; debase; degrade
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Fortuitous
adj
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adj.
- Happening by accident or chance.
- Resulting in good fortune; lucky.
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Rancorous
adj
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Adj. 1. showing deep-seated resentment; “preserve…from rancourous envy of the rich”- Aldous Huxley
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Pedantic
adj
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adj.
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.
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Recondite
adj
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adj.
- Not easily understood; requiring special knowledge; abstruse or obscure: “To gain a reputation for wisdom a man must seem to have a store of recondite knowledge” (Bertrand Russell).
- Concealed; hidden.
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Pith
n
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- The essential or central part; the heart or essence: The pith of your argument is controversial.
- Strength; vigor; mettle.
- Significance; importance: matters of great pith.
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Spurious
adj
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adj.
- Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine: spurious poems attributed to Shakespeare.
- Not trustworthy; dubious or fallacious: spurious reasoning; a spurious justification.
- Archaic Born to unwed parents.
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Contiguous
adj
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adj.
1. Sharing an edge or boundary; touching.
2. Neighboring; adjacent.
3.
a. Connecting without a break: the 48 contiguous states.
b. Connected in time; uninterrupted: served two contiguous terms in office.
[From Latin contiguus, from contingere, contig-, to touch; see contact.]
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Desiccate
v
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- To dry out thoroughly.
- To preserve (foods) by removing the moisture. See Synonyms at dry.
- To make dry, dull, or lifeless: “Stalinism desiccated the grassroots of urban government” (Timothy J. Colton).
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Surfeit
v) (n
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v.tr. To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust. v.intr. Archaic To overindulge. n. 1. a. Overindulgence in food or drink. b. The result of such overindulgence; satiety or disgust. 2. An excessive amount.
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Inimical
adj
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- Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse: habits inimical to good health.
- Unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical voice.
[C17: from Late Latin inimīcālis, from inimīcus, from in-1 + amīcus friendly; see enemy]
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Ingratiating
adj
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adj.
- Pleasing; agreeable: “Reading requires an effort…. Print is not as ingratiating as television” (Robert MacNeil).
- Calculated to please or win favor: an unctuous, ingratiating manner.
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Astringent
adj
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adj
- severe; harsh
- sharp or invigorating
- (Medicine) causing contraction of body tissues, checking blood flow, or restricting secretions of fluids; styptic
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Trenchant
adj
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adj
- keen or incisive: trenchant criticism.
- vigorous and effective: a trenchant foreign policy.
- distinctly defined: a trenchant outline.
- sharp: a trenchant sword.
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Sedulous
adj
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Diligent, persistent, persevering and constant in effort or application; assiduous.
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Divulge
v
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- To make known (something private or secret); disclose.
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Color
v
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- To misrepresent, especially by distortion or exaggeration: “color the facts.”
- To gloss over; excuse: “a parent who colored the children’s lies.”
- To exert an influence on; affect: “The war colored the soldier’s life.”
- To give a distinctive character or quality to; modify: “Both books are colored by the author’s childhood experiences” (Deborah M. Locke).
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Tout
v
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- To promote or praise energetically; publicize: “For every study touting the benefits of hormone therapy, another warns of the risks” (Yanick Rice Lamb).
- To solicit or importune: street vendors who were touting pedestrians.
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Fell
| adj
adj.
1. Of an inhumanly cruel nature; fierce: fell hordes.
2. Capable of destroying; lethal: a fell blow.
3. Dire; sinister: by some fell chance.
4. Scots Sharp and biting.
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Inchoate
1. Being in a beginning or early stage; incipient: "The country was developing an incipient national art, an inchoate national literature" (Jay Winik).
2. Imperfectly formed or developed; disordered or incoherent: "A prophet must be a good public speaker, someone who can transform inchoate rage into eloquent diatribe" (David Leavitt).
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Die
| n
A device used for cutting out, forming, or stamping material.
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Vexation
| n
n.
1. The condition of being vexed; annoyance: frowned in vexation.
2. A source of irritation or annoyance: could no longer bear the vexations of the job.
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Flip
| adj
adj.
| Marked by casual disrespect; impertinent; sarcastic: "a flip answer to a serious question." (as in flippant)
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Broach
| v
1.
a. To bring up (a subject) for discussion or debate.
b. To announce: We broached our plans for the new year.
2. To pierce in order to draw off liquid: broach a keg of beer.
3. To draw off (a liquid) by piercing a hole in a cask or other container.
4. To shape or enlarge (a hole) with a tapered, serrated tool.
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Intimate
| v
1.
a. To state or express indirectly, insinuate. "She intimated that she did not want him to call back."
b. To make evident indirectly: "His worn clothes intimated that he was in need of money."
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Vituperate
| v
To rebuke or criticize harshly or angrily; berate; scold.
v.intr.
To use harshly critical or irate language; rail.
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Lumber
| v
1. To walk or move clumsily or heavily.
| 2. To move with a rumbling noise.
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Disparage
| v
1. To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way.
2. To reduce in esteem or rank.
Synonyms: disparage, denigrate, belittle, depreciate
These verbs mean to minimize the value or importance of someone or something. Disparage implies a critical or dismissive attitude often accompanied by disrespect: "Leaders who wouldn't be caught dead making religious or ethnic slurs don't hesitate to disparage the 'godless' among us" (Daniel C. Dennett).
Denigrate often adds a note of contempt: "elitist music critics who denigrated jazz by portraying it as inferior to the classical tradition" (Tyler Stovall).
Belittle means to reduce someone or something to a lowly status, often in an arrogant or hurtful manner: "those who would mock and belittle others simply on the basis of their physical appearance" (Tyler Dilts).
Depreciate implies the assignment of a low estimation of value or worth, though the judgment it expresses is generally less disdainful than in the previous terms: "[19th-century American] literature was still mainly subservient to English models and depreciated as secondhand and second rate" (Chronology of American Literature).
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Brook
| n
To put up with; tolerate: "We will brook no further argument."
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Nice
| adj
4. subtle, delicate, or discriminating: a nice point in the argument.
5. precise; skilful: a nice fit.
6. fastidious; respectable: he was not too nice about his methods.
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Ford
| v
to cross (a river, brook, etc) over a shallow area.
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Grouse
| v
To complain; grumble.
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Meet
| adj
adj. Archaic
Fitting; proper.
"It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place" (Shakespeare).
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Sap
| v) (n
(v)
To deplete gradually, to weaken the vitality of, enervate.
(n)
A fool, a nitwit, a gullible person.
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Milk
| v
Exploit; squeeze every last ounce of;
to get something from; exploit: "The swindler milked her of all her savings."
to extract; draw out: "milking laughs from the audience."
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Damp
| v
1. To make damp or moist; moisten.
2. To suppress or extinguish (a fire) by reducing or cutting off air.
3. To restrain or check; discourage: news that damped our enthusiasm.
4. Music To slow or stop the vibrations of (the strings of a keyboard instrument) with a damper.
5. Physics To decrease the amplitude of (an oscillating system).
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Pluck
| n
courage, usually in the face of difficulties or hardship; spunk; fortitude.
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Which one of your vocab words mean:
1. to revile with abusive or defamatory language; malign.
2. to make vile; debase; degrade.
Vilify
| v
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Plastic
| adj
1. Capable of being shaped or formed, moldable, pliable, malleable. "plastic material such as clay"
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Prize
| v) (n
(v)
To move or force with a lever; pry: "prized open the antique chest."
(n)
Something taken by force; spoils.
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Which one of your vocab words mean:
| To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance.
Dissemble
| v
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List
| v
To lean or cause to lean to the side: "The damaged ship listed badly to starboard." "Erosion first listed, then toppled the spruce tree."
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Fell
| v
1.
a. To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down: fell a tree; fell an opponent in boxing.
b. To kill: was felled by an assassin's bullet.
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Occult
| adj
1. of or pertaining to any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding.
3. secret; disclosed or communicated only to the initiated.
4. hidden from view.
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Which one of your vocab words mean:
In an initial stage; not fully formed.
Inchoate
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Amenable
adj.
1.
a. Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority: "a class that is all the more amenable to control for living perpetually under the threat of deportation" (Amitav Ghosh).
b. Ready to consent; agreeable: Are you amenable to a change in schedule?
2. Responsible to higher authority; accountable: amenable to the law. See Synonyms at responsible.
3. Susceptible or open, as to testing or criticism: "The phenomenon of mind ... is much more complex, though also more amenable to scientific investigation, than anyone suspected" (Michael D. Lemonick).
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Which one of your vocabulary words mean:
Happening by accident or chance.
Fortuitous
| adj
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Which one of your vocab words mean:
Polite, refined, and often elegant in manner.
Urbane
| adj
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Which one of your vocab words mean:
Calculated to please or win favor
Ingratiating
| adj
59
Which one of your vocab words mean:
adj.
1. Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine.
2. Not trustworthy; dubious or fallacious.
Spurious
| adj
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Which one of your vocab words mean:
(v)
To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust.
(n)
1. An excessive amount
a. Overindulgence in food or drink.
b. The result of such overindulgence; satiety or disgust.
Surfeit
| v) (n
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Presumptuous
adj.
Going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward: "felt it was presumptuous of him to assume they had become friends."
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Which one of your vocab words mean:
adj.
1.
a. Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority.
b. Ready to consent; agreeable.
2. Responsible to higher authority; accountable.
3. Susceptible or open, as to testing or criticism.
Amenable
| adj
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Which one of your vocab words mean:
1. severe; harsh
2. sharp or invigorating
3. causing contraction of body tissues.
Astringent
| adj
65
Which one of your vocab words mean;
adj.
1. Sharing an edge or boundary; touching.
2. Neighboring; adjacent.
3. a. Connecting without a break.
b. Connected in time; uninterrupted.
Contiguous
| adj
67
Which one of your vocab words means:
1. To dry out thoroughly.
2. To preserve (foods) by removing the moisture.
3. To make dry, dull, or lifeless.
Desiccate
| v
68
Which one of your vocab words mean:
1. To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way.
2. To reduce in esteem or rank.
Disparage
| v
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Which one of your vocab words mean:
To disclose something secret.
Divulge
| v
71
Which one of your vocab words mean:
To read or examine, typically with great care, thoroughly.
Peruse
| v
71
Which one of your vocab words mean:
1. Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse.
2. Unfriendly; hostile.
Inimical
| adj
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Which of your words means:
Going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward.
Presumptuous
| adj
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Which of your words means:
adj.
1. Not easily understood; requiring special knowledge; abstruse or obscure.
2. Concealed; hidden.
Recondite
| adj
75
Which one of your vocab words mean:
showing deep-seated, bitter resentment
Rancorous
| adj
75
Which of your words means:
| Marked by casual disrespect; impertinent; sarcastic.
Flip
| adj
76
Which one of your vocab words mean:
adj.
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules. Donnish.
Pedantic
| adj
78
Which of your words means:
courage; spunk; fortitude.
Pluck
| n
79
Which of your words mean:
1. Of an inhumanly cruel nature; fierce
2. Capable of destroying; lethal
Fell
| adj
82
Which of your words means:
1. keen or incisive.
2. vigorous and effective.
Trenchant
| adj
82
Which of your words means:
Put up with; endure; tolerate.
Brook
| n
83
Which of your words means:
To rebuke or criticize harshly or angrily; berate; scold.
Vituperate
| v
83
Which one of your words means:
Distort; gloss over; affect; modify.
Color
| v
84
Which one of your vocabulary words mean:
Exploit
Milk
| v
85
Which of your words means:
annoyance; irritation, or a source of such.
Vexation
| n
86
Which one of your vocab words mean:
1. Dirty or deteriorated, especially from poverty or lack of care.
2. Morally repulsive; sordid.
Squalid
| adj
86
Which of your words means:
1. To promote or praise energetically; publicize.
2. To solicit or importune.
Tout
| v
86
Which one of your words mean:
A device used for cutting out, forming, or stamping material.
Die
| n
87
Which one of your vocab words mean:
The essential or central part; the heart or essence.
Pith
| n.
88
Which of your words means:
Hidden, concealed,beyond comprehension
Occult
| adj
89
Which of your words mean:
To state or express indirectly, insinuate
Intimate
| v
89
Which one of your words means:
To lean or cause to lean to the side.
List
| v
91
Which of your words means:
(v)
To deplete gradually, to weaken the vitality of, enervate.
(n)
A fool, a nitwit, a gullible person.
Sap
| v) (n
92
Which of your words means:
Exacting, fastidious, precise.
Nice
| adj
93
Which of your words means:
Capable of being shaped or formed, moldable, pliable, malleable.
Plastic
| adj
94
Which of your words mean:
To bring up, announce.
Broach
| v
94
Which of your words means:
to cross (a river, brook, etc) over a shallow area.
Ford
| v
94
Which of your words means:
To walk or move clumsily or heavily
Lumber
| v
95
Which of your words means:
| Diligent, persistent, persevering, assiduous.
Sedulous
| adj
95
Which of your words means:
To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down.
Fell
| v
96
Which of your words means:
(v)
To move or force with a lever; pry.
(n)
Something taken by force; spoils.
Prize
| n) (v
97
Which one of your vocab words mean:
Exceedingly harmful in a way that is not easily seen or noticed.
Pernicious
| adj
99
Which of your words means:
1. A beginner or novice
2. A recent convert to a belief
Neophyte
| n
99
Which one of your words means:
To suppress or extinguish; To restrain or check; discourage;
To slow or stop the vibrations of; To decrease the amplitude of.
Damp
| v
99
Which of your words means:
To complain; grumble.
Grouse
| v
99
Which of your words means:
Fitting, proper.
Meet
| adj
