Final Vocab and Rhetoric Flashcards
(90 cards)
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Terse
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Not wordy
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Adulation
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Slavish admiration
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Culpable
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To be at fault
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Munificent
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Very Civicly generous
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Transient
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To come in and out, temporary
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Entreat
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To beg or to plead
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Chimera
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Something made up in your head
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Recluse
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Removed from society
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Decadent
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Excessively indulgent
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Stupefy
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To make stupid or unclear
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Vicarious
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Experienced through someone else
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Discursive
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Go from subject to subject
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Estrange
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To be no longer close or affectionate
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Exonerate
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To prove innocence
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Gratuitous
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Lacking good reason
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Indignation
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Anger provoked by unfair treatment
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Induce
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To cause
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Intractable
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Hard to control
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Lucid
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Expressed clearly
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Misanthrope
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A person devoid of human society
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Inane
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Silly, stupid
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Indolence
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Laziness
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Infallible
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Incapable of being wrong
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Inscrutable
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Impossible to understand or interpret
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Languid
Relaxed
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Penitent
Feeling or showing sorrow
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Perfunctory
Carried out with a minimum amount of effort
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Antiquated
Old fashioned or outdated
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Dilapidated
In a state of disrepair
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Atrophy
Wasting away
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Clandestine
Secret
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Conciliate
Pacify
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Cursory
Hasty
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Derision
Contemptuous ridicule
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Enmity
State of being actively opposed
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Extricate
To become free or remove constraints
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Forbearence
Patient self control
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Frivolous
Not having value,
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Garrulous
Excessively talkative
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Impetuous
Acting or done hastily
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Industrious
Hard working
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Infamous
Well known for something bad
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Insolent
Lack of respect
44
Levity
Humor or frivolity
45
Oblivion
State of being unaware, unconsciousness
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Paradoxical
Self contradictory
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Perjury
Lying under oath
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Rancor
Bitterness or resentfullness
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Sycophant
Obsequies liking
50
Vacillate
To go back and forth
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Vividly
To animate
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Accolade
An award
53
Ascetic
Severe self discipline
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Bequeath
To leave into a hill
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Charlatan
A fraud
56
Conflagration
An extensive and large fire
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Dearth
Lack of something
58
Diffidence
Shyness from a lack of self confidence
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Effervesce
To bubble up
60
Effulgence
Radiant
61
Ethereal
Extremely delicate and light, not of this world
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Guile
Sly or cunning
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Implausible
Improbable
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Incongruous
Not in harmony
65
Insular
Ignorant of others ideas
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Provincial
Of a certain province or country
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Synthesis
The combination of ideas to form a theory
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Vigilant
Keeping careful watch
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Voluble
Very wordy
70
Affinity
Natural liking
71
Metonia
Correcting ones self
72
Litotes
Avoids claim, denies opposite
73
Erotema
Question that does not call for an answer
74
Hypophra
Opens with broad sentence, answers through paragraph
75
Metabasis
Concise summary
76
Procatalepsis
Anticipates objection, responds to it.
77
Anastrophe
When words appear on unexpected order
78
Ellipsis
Omission of expected words
79
Syllepsis
Terms linked by different meanings of the verb
80
Antithemera
Using one part of a speech as another
81
Laconic
Using very few words
82
Magnanimity
Generous
83
Scrupulous
Diligent
84
Sublime
Very good excellence
85
Surreptitious
Kept secret
86
Spurious
False
87
Amiable
Having or displaying a friendly manner
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Anadiplosis
Repetition at the end of one clause and the beginning of the next
89
Apostrophe
Addressing something that isn't there
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Metonym
A part to represent a whole
