Lesson 4 Flashcards
(36 cards)
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Aesthetic
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- Concerned with notions such as the beautiful and the ugly
* concerned with the study of the mind and emotions
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Aloof
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- At a distance, especially in feeling or interest
- reserved or reticent
- indifferent or disinterested
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Archaic
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- Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period
- Antiquated or ancient
- Forming earliest age
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Assuage
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To make milder or less severe
Mitigate or relieve to ease or appease
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Belie
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- To show to be false
- Contradict
- Misrepresent
- Slander or to lie about
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Daunt
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- to overcome with fear
* intimidate
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Contentious
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- tending to argue or strife
- quarrelsome
- Characterized by argument or controversy
- caused or involving
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Debilitate
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- To make weak or feeble
* Hinder or delay
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Discord
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- Lack of concord or harmony between persons or things
* Disagreement
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Dissemination
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- spreading widely
* spreading information
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Dogmatic
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- Asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or Arrogant manner
* any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc
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Duplicity
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- Instance or act of such deceitfulness
- state of having 2 elements or parts
- deceitfulness in speech or conduct as by speaking or acting in 2 different ways to different people
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Egocentric
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- Having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things
- having little or no regard for interests, beliefs, or attitudes other than ones own
- self centered
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Euphemism
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Substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt.
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Gluttonous
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- Tending to eat and drink excessively
- voracious
- greedy
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Mundane
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- common
- ordinary
- banal
- unimaginative
- widely earthly
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Ominous
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- Portending evil or harm
- forbidding
- Threatening
- Indicating the nature of a future event for good or evil
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Petulance
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- The state or quality of being petulant
* Bad tempered
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Pompous
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- Characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance.
- Ostentatiously lofty or high-flown
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Precocious
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- Unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development
- Prematurely developed
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Slothful
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- Sluggardly
- Lazy
- Not easily aroused to activity
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Trivia
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• Matters or things that are very unimportant
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Verbose
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- Use of many or too many words
* wordy
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Virulent
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- Actively poisonous
- Intensely noxious
- Highly infective
- Malignant or deadly
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Rolatile
* Evaporating rapidly
| * explosive
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Amorphous
* Lacking definite form
* having no specific shape
* formless
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Connotation
That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the world's literal meaning
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Context
Words, events, or circumstances that help determine the meaning
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Coordination
Grammatical order equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but
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Counterargument
A challenge to a position; an opposing argument
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Credible
Worthy of belief; trustworthy
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Cumulative sentence
An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail
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Declarative sentence
A sentence that make a statement
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Deduction
Reasoning from general to specific
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Denotation
The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition
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Dialtectal journal
A double column journal in which one writes a quotation in one column and reflections on that quotation in the other column
