Green Apple Vocab Flashcards
(74 cards)
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Conscript
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Person who is compulsory enrolled for military services
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Continence
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Self control
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Contumacious
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Disobedient; rebel
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Coquette
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Women who flirts
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Covetous
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Want of something owned by others
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Cozen
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Trickery; misleading
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Credo
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Statement of Brief
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Default
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Failure to act
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Defunct
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no longer existing
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Desiccate
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to dry completely
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desultory
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random; disconnnected
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diaphanous
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transparent; vague
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dirge
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funeral hymne
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distend
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to expand; to swell out
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doctrine
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dogmatic
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doggerel
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poor verse
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dross
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waste; worthless manner
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effete
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depeleted of vitality
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Elysian
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Delightful; blessful
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Etiology
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Causes or orgin
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Evince
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To show painly
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Expatiate
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to speak at length
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Expatriate
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to send into exile
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Atone
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to make amends
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fetid
bad smell
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feral
existing in wild; untamed state
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factotum
a person who does all sorts of work
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fiat
arbitary; order; authorisation
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filibuster
use of obstruction; to block passage
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fissure
crevice
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forbearance
patience
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fracas
a loud quarrel
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froward
obstinately disobidient
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fulminate
to attack loudly
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Inured
make tough by habitual exposure
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Intransigent
uncompromising
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agog
very eager or curious
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stolid
dully; rapid
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panthemn
a group of respected, imp ppl
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perfunctory
done without deal or effort
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furitively
secretly
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glib
fluent but not sincere
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Guise
an outward apperance
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Gouge
to tear out
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gambol
to frolic
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gustatory
affecting the sense of taste
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Hallowed
HOLY
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Hermetic
tightly sealed
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Heterodox
unorthodox
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Hieroglyphics
a system in which pics represent meaning
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Hirsute
covered with hair
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homeostasis
automatic maintencence by organism in balance with itself
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Homily
tedious moralising lecture
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Imbroglio
compilicated situation
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Impair
to damage
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impinge
collapse
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incursion
sudden invasion
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indolent
habitually lazy
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insularity
narrowminded; isolation
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interdict
to forbid ;prevent
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inundate
to cover with water
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invective
verbal abuse
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inviengn
to disapprove
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inveigle
to win over by flattery
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invidious
likely to provoke ill will
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jocose
jocular
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labile
likely to change
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lastitude
lethargy; tired
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levee
an embankment that prevents river from overflowing
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lilliputian
extremely small
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limn
to draw ;to describe
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litany
lengthy recitation
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literati
scholarly of learned person
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lucre
money or profit
