Final Exam Vocab Flashcards
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Abnormal
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Not normal
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Apparition
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Ghost
Seeing something your not sure of
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Aptitude
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Being good at something
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Astral
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Stellar
Star-shaped
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Acidulous
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Sharp, caustic
Sarcastic
Sickly taste, acidic
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Attest
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To bear witness to
Certify
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Administer
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To manage, apply
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Aquiline
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Curved and comes back
Shaped like an eagle’s beak
Hooked
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Advent
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Start
Beginning/arrival of something
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Appalled
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Shocked, disgusted
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Abstinence
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To refrain from doing something
Self-restraint
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Adjunct
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Something added to another thing but not essential
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Anticlimax
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Low point in something
Event less striking than expected
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Bleak
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Bare, desolate
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Baleful
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Deadly
Something that will cause harm
Vindictive
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Benevolent
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Being kind
Charitable
Desire to help others
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Buffoon
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Acting like a moron, idiot
Person who amuses others by tricks, jokes
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Cloister
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Place of religious withdrawal
Courtyard, monastery
Any quiet secluded place
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Counterfeit
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Made in imitation
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Consecutive
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Following one another in uninterrupted order
Successive
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Conversant
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Familiar in use or study
Well versed in something
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Cache
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Hiding place
Supply of something stored away
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Calumny
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Slander
Something said to hurt/ruin someone’s reputation
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Craven
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To act cowardly
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Chicanery
Fraud, cheating
Trickery, deception
Deceive
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Choleric
Extremely irritable
| Easily angered
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Contagious
Easy to spread
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Conscientious
Overly aware
Dedicate to what is right
Good
Meticulous
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Countermand
To reverse
To go against
to contradict
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Delta
4th letter in Greek alphabet
Mouth of a river
Anything triangular
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Doughty
Strong
Strength of character
Bold
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Demise
Death of something
| To pass on something
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Diction
Style of speaking or writing
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Devious
Not straight foreword
Deceiving
Crafty, sneaky in a bad way
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Defunct
No longer in effect or use
Out of circulation
Outdated
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Delude
To mislead
Deceive
Evade, elude
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Dilate
To enlarge
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Denizen
Natural inhabitant
| Native
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Efface
To clean by time
To wipe out
Do away with
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Ennui
Exhaustion, wearisome, boredom
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Euphoria
State of intense happiness and self-confidence
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Ellipsis
Three dots (...) indicating an omission in text
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Ensure
To secure, gaurentee
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Elocution
Delivery of speech
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Envoy
Diplomatic agent
Messenger
Representative
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Ethereal
Heavenly, awesome
| Light, airy
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Exemplify
Illustrate by example
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Ellipse
Oval shaped, curved
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Emanate
To send forth, emit
| Poor out of something
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Evince
To reveal, show, prove
| Peal back and expose
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Effusive
Overly dramatic
| Overflowing
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Fluent
Spoken or written with ease
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Foretell
Predict
| To tell of beforehand
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Futile
Incapable of producing any result
| Ineffective, useless, pointless
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Fallible
Liable to err
| Not accurate
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Furor
Uproar
| Outburst of enthusiasm
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Feasible
Capable of being done
| Able to happen, possible
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Gingerly
With great care or caution
| Carefully
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Gauntlet
Long leather glove
| Organized system of doing something
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Gaudy
Tacky, trashy
| Showy, flashy
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Guile
Extreme cunning, skill
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Glean
To gather bit by bit
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Gloss
Gaze quickly
| Superficial luster, glaze
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Heretic
Someone who goes against established teachings of the Church
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Heterodox
Somebody who goes against established routine
| Go against religion
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Hackneyed
Something that loses its affect because of overuse
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Humdrum
Boring, dull
| Lacking variety
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Hydraulic
Operated by pressurized liquids
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Incongruous
Not going well together
| Inconsistent
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Irony
The use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning
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Idolatry
Worship of idols or physical objects
| Blind adoration, devotion
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Irrelevant
Not having to do with
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Impel
To drive, urge forward
| Press on, propel
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Impermeable
Not permeable
Unable to be penetrated
Not porous
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Impervious
Unaffected by anything
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Impetuous
Doing something without thinking
| Impulsive
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Illiterate
Unable to read and write
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Implication
Conclusion drawn by something
| Something implied, naturally understood
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Ingenious
Something that is original, remarkable
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Jaded
Tired, bored
Lacking enthusiasm after period of time
Dulled by overindulgence
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Lacerate
To tear open
| To cut open
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Licentious
Acting like a slut
Lascivious
Immoral, lawless
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Latent
Present but not visible
| Existing as potential
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Leach
To pull out of something
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Lateral
Of, or pertaining to, the side
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Lissome
Flexible
Agile
Nimble
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Matyr
Someone who dies for what they stand for
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Mitigate
To lessen in severity, force, intensity
| To make less severe
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Modicum
Small amount
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Myriad
A lot
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Malingerer
Person who feigns illness to avoid work
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Misanthrope
Hater of humankind
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Malevolent
wishing harm on others
| Evil, bad
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Meticulous
Paying attention to details
Methodical
Finicky, fussy
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Miscreant
Bad person
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Nefarious
Extremely wicked
Villainous
Evil
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Nominal
Small amount
In name only
Theoretical
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Noncommittal
Not fully committed to something
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Neophyte
Beginner
Novice
Person newly baptized
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Obese
Overweight
| Corpulent
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Osier
Dried willow sticks used to make furniture
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Omniscient
Knowing all things
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Ordinance
Edict issued by town
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Ostentatious
Of actions intended to attract notice
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Odometer
An instrument or measuring distance traveled
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Obeisance
Paying homage to something
Act of respect
Bow
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Oscillate
To swing back and forth
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Obsequious
Overly fawning
| Kiss up
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Prudent
Very wise
Careful in decision
Provident
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Pious
Very religious
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Pall
A cloth for spreading over a coffin
| Anything that covers, especially with darkness or gloom
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Pithy
Something that is short, but is meaningful
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Prevalent
Widespread
Having superiority
Predominant
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Porous
Full of pores
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Prolific
Highly fruitful
Highly productive
Producing offspring
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Prone
Natural inclination or tendency to something
| Lying flat
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Pacify
To soothe
To please somebody
Quiet, calm
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Prate
Talk a lot
| Babble
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Papyrus
Ancient paper
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Profess
To declare openly
| To put forth
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Pretentious
Overly snobby
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Posterity
All descendants f one person
