Flashcards - 5

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Torrid

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: very hot and usually dry : showing or expressing very strong feelings especially of sexual or romantic desire : very difficult, uncomfortable, or unpleasant

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: unpleasantly warm and humid | Synonyms: damp, humid, sticky, sultry

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: having an old-fashioned or unusual quality or appearance that is usually attractive or appealing Synonyms: bizarre, bizarro, cranky, crazy, curious, eccentric, erratic, far-out, funky, funny, kinky, kooky (also kookie), offbeat, off-kilter, off-the-wall, outlandish, out-of-the-way, outré, peculiar, odd, queer, queerish, quirky, remarkable, rum [chiefly British], screwy, spaced-out, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, weirdo, wild

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: the art of making beautiful handwriting Full Definition 1 a : artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering b : the art of producing such writing 2 : penmanship 3 : an ornamental line in drawing or painting cal·li·graph·ic \ˌka-lə-ˈgra-fik\ adjective cal·li·graph·i·cal·ly \-fi-k(ə-)lē\ adverb Examples she specializes in scrollwork with beautiful calligraphy Origin: French or Greek; French calligraphie, from Greek kalligraphia, from kalli- beautiful (from kallos beauty) + -graphia -graphy. First use: 1604 Synonyms: handwriting, longhand, manuscript, penmanship, script

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: a simple object (such as a tool or weapon) that was made by people in the past : an accidental effect that causes incorrect results

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In Roman architecture, an insula (Latin for "island," plural insulae) was a kind of apartment building that housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient Rome, including ordinary people of lower- or middle-class status (the plebs) and all but the wealthiest from the upper-middle class (the equites).

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: something that shows what is coming Synonyms: angel, foregoer, forerunner, herald, outrider, precursor : to be a harbinger of : presage

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: something that comes before something else and that often leads to or influences its development Synonyms: angel, foregoer, harbinger, herald, outrider, forerunner

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: a large amount of rain that suddenly falls in an area : a situation in which a large area of land becomes completely covered with water : a large amount of things that come at the same time Synonyms: alluvion, bath, cataclysm, cataract, flood, flood tide, inundation, Niagara, overflow, spate, torrent

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: to say publicly and forcefully that you regard (something) as bad, wrong, etc.

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: not polite | Synonyms: boorish, clownish, classless, cloddish, loutish, uncouth, surly, vulgar, intractable

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: having or causing a sick feeling in the stomach : feeling or causing nausea : angry or bad-tempered : very unpleasant to look at Synonyms: acid, bearish, ill–tempered, bloody-minded [chiefly British], cantankerous, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ornery, splenetic, surly

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1 : an exclamation of greeting or acclamation 2 : a calling to attract attention 3 : hearing distance

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: to trick or confuse (someone) | Dupe, hoodwink

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1 : to make a rapid succession of short sharp noises 2 : to chatter incessantly and aimlessly 3 : to move with a clatter or rattle; also : to be or move about in a place or station too large or grand : a series of short, loud sounds : a baby's toy that makes a series of short sounds when it is shaken : the group of hard, loose pieces (called scales) that cover the end of a rattlesnake's tail Synonyms: babel, blare, bluster, bowwow, brawl, bruit [archaic], cacophony, chatter, clamor, clangor, decibel(s), din, discordance, katzenjammer, racket, noise, roar

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: a refusal to obey something or someone : the act of defying someone or something

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: one of the many different ways or forms in which something exists or can be arranged

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: extremely great size Synonyms: enormity, enormousness, giantism, gigantism, hugeness, immenseness, magnitude, massiveness, prodigiousness, vastitude, vastness

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: a shocking, evil, or immoral act : great evil or wickedness : great size Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, badness, depravedness, depravity, diabolicalness, evilness, heinousness, hideousness, monstrosity, sinfulness, vileness, wickedness

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: the words used in a language or by a person or group of people

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: to treat (someone) with too much care or kindness | Pamper

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: to allow (yourself) to have or do something as a special pleasure : to allow (someone) to have or do something even though it may not be proper, healthy, appropriate, etc. : to patiently allow (someone) to do or say something (pamper)

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: to make (someone or something) weak : to reduce the strength of (someone or something)

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—used to describe a young person who does not have much experience and does not know how to behave the way adults behave Synonyms: adolescent, green, immature, inexperienced, juvenile, puerile, raw, unfledged, unformed, unripe, unripened, wet behind the ears

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: the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity

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: the act of making something better or more acceptable : the act of exchanging something for money, an award, etc. Christianity : the act of saving people from sin and evil : the fact of being saved from sin or evil

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: a phrase or verse that is repeated regularly in a poem or song : a comment or statement that is often repeated (chorus) : to stop yourself from doing something that you want to do (restrain)

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: to a sickening or excessive degree

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1 : collegiate 2 2 a : marked by power or authority vested equally in each of a number of colleagues b : characterized by equal sharing of authority especially by Roman Catholic bishops 3 : marked by camaraderie among colleagues col·le·gial·ly adverb Examples company luncheons that are designed to instill a collegial spirit among coworkers First use: 14th century Synonyms: amicable, bonhomous, buddy-buddy, chummy, friendly, companionable, comradely, cordial, genial, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met, hearty, matey [chiefly British], neighborly, palsy, palsy-walsy [slang], warm, warmhearted

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a machine for gathering hay 1 : to gather, loosen, or smooth with or as if with a rake 2 : to gain rapidly or in abundance — usually used with in 3 a : to touch in passing over lightly b : scratch, scrape 4 : to censure severely 5 : to search through : ransack 6 : to sweep the length of especially with gunfire : enfilade 7 : to glance over rapidly 8. 2 : inclination from the horizontal : slope 9. : a dissolute person : libertine

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—used to describe someone (such as a person who often gets drunk) whose way of living is considered morally wrong Synonyms: debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, corrupt, jackleg, libertine, loose, perverse, perverted, rakehell (or rakehelly), rakish, reprobate, sick, unclean, unwholesome, warped

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1 : to cultivate with a harrow | 2 : torment, vex

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: to lower the value or reputation of (someone or something) : to make (someone or something) less respected

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: to cause to be at a loss as to what to say, think, or do : perplex synonyms see puzzle

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: an object that floats on water in a lake, bay, river, etc., to show areas that are safe or dangerous for boats

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: too much pride in your own worth or goodness | : an idea that shows imagination

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: very noisy and active in a lively way Synonyms: hell-raising, knockabout, rambunctious, raucous, robustious, roisterous, rollicking, rowdy, rumbustious [chiefly British], wild and woolly

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: too confident or proud | : too great : excessive and unpleasant

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: a small mistake or fault that is not regarded as very bad or serious

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1 of a bird : to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland 2 : to dress or smooth (oneself) up : primp 3 : to pride or congratulate (oneself) on an achievementintransitive verb 1 : to make oneself sleek 2 : to behave or speak with obvious pride or self-satisfaction

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medical : designed to prevent disease

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: a woman who likes to win the attention or admiration of men but does not have serious feelings for them

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: not interesting or unusual | : relating to or designed for people who are walking

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: the quality of being strange or unusual in behavior : an act or habit that is strange or unusual Synonyms: crotchet, curiosity, idiosyncrasy, erraticism, individualism, kink, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quiddity, quip, quirk, singularity, tic, trick, twist

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1 : to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner

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: of, relating to, bordering on, or near the Pacific Ocean : calm and peaceful : loving peace : not wanting war or conflict Synonyms: appeasing, conciliating, conciliatory, disarming, mollifying, pacifying, peacemaking, placating, placatory, propitiatory

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: talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way Synonyms: abrupt, bluff, blunt (also brusk), crusty, curt, downright, short, short-spoken, snippy, unceremonious

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1 : an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable 2 : one whose actions are recklessly defiant : crazy and violent especially because of anger

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: to spread or grow by or as if by metastasis Metastasis means: 1 a : change of position, state, or form b : the spread of a disease-producing agency (as cancer cells) from the initial or primary site of disease to another part of the body; also : the process by which such spreading occurs 2 : a secondary malignant tumor resulting from metastasis

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: full of danger or risk Synonyms: grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, dangerous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, unhealthy, unsafe, venturesome Antonyms: harmless, innocent, innocuous, nonhazardous, nonthreatening, safe, unthreatening

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: the study of signs and symbols and how they are used

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to go forward quickly without control | Synonyms: rock, lurch, pitch, roll, seesaw, sway, toss, wobble (also wabble)

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: to roll (something) on wheels slowly and noisily : to move noisily on wheels : to walk slowly and heavily

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: to be slow in going : to stay somewhere

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: to completely change the form, appearance, or nature of (someone or something) Synonyms: alchemize, make over, metamorphose, transfigure, transform, convert, transpose, transubstantiate

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: a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government : very harsh control or authority

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: having or showing too much pride in your abilities or achievements Synonyms: assured, biggety (or biggity) [Southern&Midland], bigheaded, complacent, consequential, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), important, overweening, pompous, prideful, proud, self-conceited, self-important, self-opinionated, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swellheaded, vain, conceited

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1 archaic : to put before : apply (one thing) to another | 2 : to place in juxtaposition or proximity

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: becoming angry very easily : having a bad temper

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: hermit; especially : a religious recluse | Synonyms: anchorite, recluse, hermit, isolate, solitary

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: to cause harm or damage to (the reputation of someone or something)

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: to make the sound that a sheep or goat makes : to speak or complain in an annoying way Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, complain, carp, caterwaul, crab, croak, fuss, gripe, grizzle, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grump, holler, inveigh, keen, kick, kvetch, maunder [chiefly British], moan, murmur, mutter, nag, repine, scream, squawk, squeal, wail, whimper, whine, whinge [British], yammer, yawp (or yaup), yowl

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: to suggest (something, such as an idea or theory) especially in order to start a discussion : a statement that is accepted as being true and that is used as the basis of a theory, argument, etc. Synonyms: given, hypothetical, if, assumption, premise (also premiss), presumption, presupposition, supposition

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: a country, business, etc., that is controlled by a small group of people : the people that control a country, business, etc. : government or control by a small group of people

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: to say that you are unhappy about (something) : to complain about (something)

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: the quality of being honest and morally correct Synonyms: character, decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, probity, morality, righteousness, rightness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness

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: to be unwilling to dosomething because you think it is improper, morally wrong, etc. Full Definition 1 : to have scruples 2 : to show reluctance on grounds of conscience : hesitate 3.minute part or quantity : iota

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: a very evil quality or way of behaving tur·pi·tude\ˈtər-pə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\ noun : a very evil quality or way of behaving Full Definition : inherent baseness : depravity ; also : a base act Examples pictorial advertisements for chic clothing and fragrances in which drug addiction and other forms of moral turpitude are depicted as alternative fashion statements Origin: Middle French, from Latin turpitudo, from turpis vile, base. First use: 15th century Synonyms: abjection, corruptness, debasement, debauchery, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravity, dissipatedness, dissipation, dissoluteness, libertinage, libertinism, perversion, pervertedness, rakishness, corruption

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: someone or something that is intended to be used for a short time and then replaced by someone or something better : a temporary substitute Synonyms: expedient, makeshift

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: dedicated to a sacred purpose First use: 14th century Synonyms: blessed (also blest), holy, consecrated, hallowed, sacral, sacred, sacrosanct, sanctified

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: loud, excited, and emotional | : involving a lot of violence, confusion, or disorder

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: very neat and clean | Synonyms: dapper, smart, sharp, snappy, spruce

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: shaking slightly especially because of nervousness, weakness, or illness : feeling or showing a lack of confidence or courage Synonyms: fainthearted, fearful, fearsome, mousy (or mousey), scary, skittish, timid, timorous, shy

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: having or showing the quality of being very generous : done with the hand held open Synonyms: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free, freehanded, freehearted, fulsome, liberal, munificent, open, generous, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting

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: kept hidden in order to get a particular result

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: a structure built against a wall in order to support or strengthen it transitive verb : to support, strengthen, or defend (something) Full Definition : to furnish or shore up with a buttress; also : support, strengthen

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: showing a lack of proper thought or care : not caring or worrying : happy and without worry Synonyms: cheerful, blithesome, bright, buoyant, canty [British dialect], cheery, chipper, eupeptic, gay, gladsome, lightsome, sunny, upbeat, winsome

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: to cause (someone) to feel sad or embarrassed about something that has happened Full Definition 1 : to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline; also : purify 2 a : to prune (as a work or style of art) of excess, pretense, or falsity : refine b : to cause to be more humble or restrained : subdue synonyms see punish