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Key Terms Group 3 Flashcards

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Acumen

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Keen, accurate judgment or insight

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Adulterate

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To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

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Amalgamate

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To combine several elements into a whole

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Archaic

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Outdated, associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time

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Aver

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To state as a fact, to declare or assert

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Bolster

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To provide support or reinforcement

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Bombastic

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Pompous, grandiloquent

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Diatribe

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A harsh denunciation

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Dissemble

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To disguise or conceal, to mislead

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Eccentric

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Departing from norms or conventions

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Endemic

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Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people

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Evanescent

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Tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing

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Exacerabet

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To make worse or more severe

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Fervent

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Greatly emotional or zelous

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Fortuitous

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Happening by accident or chance

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Germane

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Relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter

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Grandiloquence

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Pompous speech or expression

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Hackneyed

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Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

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Halcyon

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Calm and peaceful

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Hedonism

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Devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses

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Hegemony

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The consistent dominance of one state or group over others

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Iconoclast

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One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

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Idolatrous

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Given to intense or excessive devotion to something

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Impassive

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Revealing no emotion

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Imperturbable
Marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness
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Implacable
Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
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Impunity
Immunity from punishment or penalty
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Inchoate
In an initial stage; not fully formed
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Infelicitous
Unfortunate, inappropriate
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Insipid
Lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge
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Loquacious
Extremely talkative
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Luminous
Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
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Malevolent
Having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred
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Malleable
Capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable
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Mendacity
The condition of being untruthful, dishonesty
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Meticulous
Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
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Misanthrope
One who hates all other humans
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Mitigate
To make or become less sever or intense; to moderate
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Obdurate
Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
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Obsequious
Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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Occlude
To obstruct or block
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Opprobrium
Disgrace; contempt; scorn
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Pedagogy
The profession or pricniples of teaching or instructing
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Pedantic
Overly concerned with trivial details of learning oreducation; show-offish about knowledge
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Penury
Poverty; destitution
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Pervasive
Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
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Pine
To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
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Pirate
To illegally use or reproduce
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Pith
The essential or central part
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Pithy
Precise and brief
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Placate
To appease; to calm by making concessions
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Platitude
Superficial remark; especially one offered as meaningful
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Plummet
To plunge or drop straight down
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Polemical
Controversial, argumentative
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Prodigal
Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
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Profuse
Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant
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Proliferate
To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
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Queries
Question, inquiries, doubts in the mind, reservations
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Querulous
Prone to complaining or grumbling, peevish
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Rancorous
Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
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Recalcitrant
Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
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Repudiate
To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
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Rescind
To invalidate; to repeal; to retract
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Reverent
Marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect (e.g., reverence)
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Rhetoric
The art or study of effective use of language for comms/persuasion
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Salubrious
Promoting health or well-being
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Solvent
Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
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Specious
Seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false
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Spurious
Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
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Subpoena
A court order requiring appearance
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Succint
Brief; concise
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Superfluous
Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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Surfeit
An overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess
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Tenacity
The quality of adherance or persistence to something valued
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Tenuous
Having little substance or strength; flimsy
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Tirade
A long and extremely critical speech
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Transient
Fleeting; brief
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Zealous
Fervent; ardent; impassioned; devoted to a cause

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