List 1 Flashcards
(105 cards)
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Abound
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Plentiful
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Abduction
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Kidnapping
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Absurd
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Ridiculous
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Adhere
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To stick to
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Accomplice
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Helper
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Afoot
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In motion
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Agitate
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To disturb, trouble or shake and object
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Airtight
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Perfect
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Allegiance
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Loyalty
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Amass
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To collect a lot of
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Amity
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Friendship
1 divergent faction
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Anchor
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To hold in place
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Anonymous
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Without a name
Anon hate
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Apparel
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Cloths
Where you won’t shop
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Apprehend
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- To catch and take into custody
- To understand
Like to comprehend
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Arbiter
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One who settles a dispute
An arbiter bites the bullet
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Ascending
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Going up
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Asylum
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Shelter
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Auctioneer
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One who sells goods at an auction
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Avert
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To avoid
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Babble
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To talk foolishly or too much
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Barbaric
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Primitive; uncivilized
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Bid
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To make an offer
To order or command
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Bloated
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Swollen
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Bogus
Fake
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Brace
To support
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Breadth
How broad something is
Bread is a broad category of baked goods
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Buoyant
1. Happy
| 2. Able to float
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Byway
Side road
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Cadet
Military student
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Candid
Honest; open; outspoken
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Carnivorous
Meat eating
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Censure
To criticize harshly; to blame
Many people censure censoring
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Chronic
Constant
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Collage
A collection of pictures or images
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Compassionate
Kind; sympathetic
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Complacent
Self satisfied, smug
Me (1st) place
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Composer
One who writes music
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Compress
To press together
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Conclusive
Definite; proven
Conclusion
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Confectioner
Maker if candy
Confectionate sugar
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Connoisseur
Expert
Con noise because an expert doesn't say much
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Consequential
1. Important
2. Resulting
It's important to remember the consequences
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Conspiracy
A secret plan to do something unlawful
Pirates have conspiracies
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Contour
Curve; shape
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Criterion
One criteria
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Cumulative
Including everything from the beginning
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Dabble
To take a mild interest in something
If babble is to talk too much about something, to dabble is to not do it enough to talk about it
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Decay
To rot
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Decode
To translate a code into understandable language
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Deflate
1. To remove air from something
2: to discourage
If you were to deflate my tires you would deflate my hopes of getting home before curfew
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Delete
To remove
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Demote
To lower in rank
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Descendant
Relative from a younger generation
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Detect
To notice
Detectives detect things
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Devise
To plan; to design
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Dignity
Honor
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Directory
A book of names, addresses
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Discipline
1. Noun- ability to practice regulations
| 2. Verb- to punish
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Discourse
Speech; conversation
In dis course the teacher gives lots of speeches
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Discriminate
To notice differences
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Dishearten
To discourage
Diss my hearts desire
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Dismay
Sadness; disappointment
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Disrepute
Having a bad reputation
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Distant
Unfriendly
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Distress
Worry; unhappiness
Did stress is causing me unhappiness
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Document
To support with evident
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Drought
Severe dryness
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Duration
How long something is
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Dynamics
The study of motion
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Eccentric
Strange; unusual in the interesting way
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Egoist
One who pays too much attention to themselves
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Embrace
1. To hug
| 2. To accept
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Emotive
Emotional
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Endow
1. To give a talent or quality to someone
| 2. To give money to
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Enlighten
To inform; to make clear
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Entity
1. Object: thing
| 2. Living being
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Equilibrium
Balance
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Error
Mistake (baseball)
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Evade
To escape from; to avoid
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Excerpt
A part of a quote or passage
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Exhibitionist
One who enjoys showing off
Makes themselves an exhibit
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Expertise
Skill
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Extravagance
Wasteful spending
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Fabricate
1. To creat
| 2. To lie
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Farfetched
Unbelievable
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Flourish
To grow; to be successful
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Forethought
Thinking beforehand
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Fragment
1. Noun- a broken piece
| 2. Verb- to break into pieces
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Fraudulent
Fake
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Fumble
A mistake in football
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Galaxy
A group of stars
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Ghastly
Horrible
That smell if that ghas is ghastly
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Glutton
One who wats too much
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Grandiose
1. Magnificent
| 2. Showy
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Grove
Small forest or field if trees
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Guzzle
To drink quickly
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Habitable
Fit to be lived in
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Hangar
Shelter for airplanes
| The plans hang in the hangar
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Haze
Fog; mist
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Heir
A person who inherits
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Hibernation
In animals, the state of sleeping through winter; inactivity
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Home run
Score in baseball
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Hurl
To throw forcefully
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Hypothesis
Assumption; possible explanation