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English Vocabulary C1 Flashcards

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Prolific

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Productive

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to taint

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To pollute, spoil, corrupt

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To shun

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to avoid, to reject

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to weigh in on

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to comment

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Dramshop

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bars, taverns

commercial place that sells alcoholic beverages (examples include bars)

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Breeches

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pants/trouses

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Dimity

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cotton cloth

light, strong, cotton cloth, often with a pattern of stripes :

*Her outfit was completed with a neat, white, dimity apron.
*There were blue dimity curtains over the two windows.

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Dickey

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the boot of the car

the covered space at the back of a car, where you can put luggage, etc.

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Nimble

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Quick movement

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Lanky

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Tall and thin

Often moves awkwardly as a result

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Stucco

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Plaster

used for covering walls and ceilings

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Dingy

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Dirty, smutty, grimy

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Heaped

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contain as much as possible

(of a spoon or plate)

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Latter

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1) near or towards the end of something
2) the second of two people, things, or groups previously mentioned

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Pitched-black

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extremely black

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Raggedness

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bad quality, badly organized

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Receptacle

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a storage, a container used for storing stuff

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Coarseness

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roughness (of skin) , rudeness (quality)

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Remnant

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A small piece or amount of something that is left from a larger original piece or amount,
A leftover (for example)

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Hostelry

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a bar or pub, inn

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Pendent

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hanging from or over smth

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Pendant

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jewellery

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Solely

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only

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Divest

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deprive

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Perpetually
Never ending
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Endure
to suffer smth difficult, unpleasant
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Induce
to persuade someone do smth
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Tittle-tattle
gossip
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Omit
to leave out, drop
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Serf
bondsman, slave, servant
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Sporadic
occasional
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Solicitude
concern, care
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Edifice
building
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Amid
in the middle of, among
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Medley
assortment
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Dilapidated
run down, shabby, tumbledown
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Emporium
shop, store
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Insignia
symbol, emblem
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Apropos
with regard to, with reference to, regarding
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Enrich
to improve the quality of something by adding something else
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Umbrageous
shadowed
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Sultry
hot a damp weather, humid
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Laden
If someone or something is laden with a lot of heavy things, they are holding or carrying them.
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Betake itself
to return
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Peruse
to read carefully in a detailed way
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Jot smth down
to make a note
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Plunge
dive, sink
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Contrived
forced, bring about, manage
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Gaucherie
is a tactless or awkward act
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Interlocutor
someone who takes a part in a conversation or dialogue
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Discourse
conversation, talk, to speak, expatiate
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Evince
to show, to demonstrate
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To don
to put on (the clothes)
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Protrude
stick out, stand out
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Postilion
someone who guides the horse, mounted on the horse
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Ply
layer, thickness, strand, sheet, leaf
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Opulence
richness, luxury, magnificence
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Hither and thither
this way and that
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Budge
move
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Comeliness
1)the quality of being attractive or pleasing in appearance 2) The quality of being seemly or proper in behavior
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Amenity
convenience, service, enjoyment
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Pertinent
relevant
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Blunder
mistake
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Perplexity
confusion, puzzlement
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Incite
encourage
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Prefatory
introductory
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Circumstantiality
fullness of detail
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Loquacious | Taciturn (antonym)
talkative, garrulous
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obsequious
ready or prompt to help or obey like a servant or slave, servile,
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fulsome
expressing a lot of admiration or praise for someone, often too much, in a way that does not sound sincere
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yearning
a strong feeling of wishing for something, especially something that you cannot have or get easily, desire, wish
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mere
1) used to emphasize that something is not large or important (as trifling, petty) *it cost a mere 20 dollars 2)used to emphasize how strongly someone feels about something or how extreme a situation is *the mere idea/possibility/prospect of something
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solace
comfort, consolation
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recumbent
lying down or leaning back so you are almost lying down
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poring over
read very carefully, peruse
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subtle
fine, precise, ultra-fine
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hitherto
so far, until now
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Untenanted
(of property) not occupied by a tenant or tenants
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Impediment
Obstacle, barrier, hindrance
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Fastidious
scrupulous
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wearisome
exhausting, tiring
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wearisome
exhausting, tiring
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apprehensive
anxious, worried, alarmed
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consort
a partner, to agree with, to go around
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Cringing
низкопоклонство
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Negligence
carelessness
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urchins
a mischievous and often poor and raggedly clothed youngster. street urchins
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Sundry
various, assorted
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embroidered
to decorate cloth or clothing with patterns or pictures consisting of stitches that are sewn directly onto the material
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abode
home
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arbour
a sheltered place in a garden formed by trees and bushes that are grown to partly surround it
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to connote
imply, suggest
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ingratiating
to gain favor or favorable
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Inmost
deepest
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Obrok (russian)
a yearly tax formerly paid by a Russian peasant engaged in trade
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Inlaid
set into a surface in a decorative design
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lopsided
asymmetrical
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Titbit
delicacy
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Slovenly
scruffy, untidy
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indispensable
absolutely necessary : essential
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beguile
entertain, charm, attract, enchant
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leisure
free time, freedom from the demands of work or duty
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idiosyncrasy
a strange or unusual habit, way of behaving, or feature that someone or something has
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regimen
diet
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jostle
to knock or push roughly against someone in order to move past them or get more space when you are in a crowd of people:

English C1-C2 (1 decks)

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