Lesser Known 2nd Meanings Flashcards
(110 cards)
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August (adj)
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Majestic, venerable
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Alloy (v)
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To commingle
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Bent (n)
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Leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
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Brook (v)
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To tolerate; to endure
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Chauvinist (n)
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A blindly devoted patriot
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Consequential (adj)
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Pompous, self-important (primary definition = logically following)
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Damp (v)
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To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound (damper pedal)
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Die (n)
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A tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop
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Essay (v)
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To test or try; to attempt; to experiment
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Fell (adj)
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Inhumanly cruel
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Flag (v)
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To sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline
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Grouse (v)
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To complain or grumble
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Guy (n)
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A rope cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide
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Intimate (v)
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To imply, suggest, or insinuate
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List (v)
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To tilt or lean to one side
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Meet (adj)
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Fitting, proper
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Mince (v)
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To pronounce or speak affectedly or too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps/tiptoe
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Nice (adj)
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Exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
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Obtain (adj)
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To be established, accepted, or customary
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Occult (adj)
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Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
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Pedestrian (adj)
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Commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
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Pied (adj)
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Multicolored, usually in blotches
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Pine (v)
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To lose vigor (as through grief) to yearn
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Prize (v)
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To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoil
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Rent (v)
Torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such
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Quail (v)
To lose courage; to turn frightened
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Qualify (v)
To limit
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Sap (n)
A fool or nitwit
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Scurvy (adj)
Contemptible, despicable
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Stand (n)
A group of trees
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Strut (n)
The supporting structural cross-part of a wing
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Table (v)
To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration
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Tender (v)
To proffer or offer
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Waffle (v)
To equivocate; to change one's position
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Wag (n)
Wit, joker
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Abjure (v)
To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant
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Adumbrate (v)
To foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
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Anathema (n)
A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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Anodyne (adj/n)
Soothing; something that assuaged or always pain, comforts
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Apogee (n)
Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
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Apostate (n)
One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
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Apotheosis (n)
Exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection
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Asperity (n)
Severity; rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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Asseverate (v)
To aver, allege, or assert
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Assiduous (adj)
Diligent, hard working, sedulous
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Augury (n)
Omen, portent
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Bellicose (adj)
Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
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Calumniate (v)
To slander
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Captious (adj)
Disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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Cavil (v)
To find fault with good reason
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Celerity (n)
Speed, alacrity (think accelerate)
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Chimera (n)
An illusion
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Contumacious (adj)
Insubordinate, rebellious
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Contumely (n)
Insult, scorn
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Denouement (n)
An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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Descry (v)
To discriminate or discern
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Desuetude (n)
Disuse
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Desultory (adj)
Random; aimless; marked by lack of plan or purpose
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Diaphanous (adj)
Transparent, gauzy
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Diffident (adj)
Reserved, shy, unassuming
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Encomium (n)
Glowin and enthusiastic praise; tribute, eulogy
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Excoriate (v)
To censure scathingly, to upbraid
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Execrate (v)
To denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil
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Exegesis (n)
Critical examination, explication
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Expiate (v)
To atone or make amends for
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Extirpate (v)
To destroy, to exterminate, to cut out
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Fatuous (adj)
Silly, inanely foolish
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Fractious (adj)
Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
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Gainsay (v)
To deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose
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Heterodox (adj)
Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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Imbroglio (n)
Difficult or embarrassing
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Indefatigable (adj)
Not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
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Ineluctable (adj)
Certain, inevitable
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Inimitable (adj)
One of a kind, peerless
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Insouciant (adj)
Unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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Inveterate (adj)
Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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Jejune (adj)
Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
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Lubricious (adj)
Lewd wanton, greasy, slippery
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Mendicant (n)
A beggar, supplicant
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Meretricious (adj)
Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy
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Minatory (adj)
Menacing, threatening (think Minotaur)
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Nadir (n)
Low point, perigee
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Nonplussed (adj)
Baffled, bewildered
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Obstreperous (adj)
Noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
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Ossified (adj)
Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally it means to be turned into bone
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Palliate (v)
To make something seem less serious, to gloss over
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Panegyric (n)
Formal praise, eulogy, encomium
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Parsimonious (adj)
Cheap, miserly
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Pellucid (adj)
Transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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Proration (n)
The concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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Plangent (adj)
Pounding, thundering, resounding
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Prolix (adj)
Long winded, verbose
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Propitiate (v)
To appease; to conciliate
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Puerile (adj)
Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
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Puissance (n)
Power, strength
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Pusillanimous (adj)
Cowardly, craven
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Remonstrate (v)
To protest, to object
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Sagacious (adj)
Gavin sound judgment; perceptive, wise
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Salacious (adj)
Lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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Salutary (adj)
Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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Sanguine (adj)
Cheerful, confident, optimistic
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Saturnine (adj)
Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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Sententious (adj)
Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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Stentorian (adj)
Extremely loud and powerful
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Stygian (adj)
Gloomy, dark
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Tendentious (adj)
Biased; showing marked tendencies
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Timorous (adj)
Timid, fearful, diffident
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Tyro (n)
Novice
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Vitiate (v)
To corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective
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Voluble (adj)
Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
