List 1a Flashcards
(95 cards)
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Adhere
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To stick firmly
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Abound
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To be present in great quantity #a bunch
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Adversary
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Enemy
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Afoot
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In motion; in progress
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Agitate
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- To disturb; to trouble
2. To shake an object
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Airtight
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Perfect; without weakness
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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
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Anchor
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To hold in place
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Apprehend
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- To catch and take into custody
2. To understand
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Arbiter
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One who settles a dispute
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Ascending
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Going up
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Asylum
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Shelter; refuge
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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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Belittle
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To criticize
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Bid
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- To make an offer
2. To order or command
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Bloated
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Swollen
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Bogus
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Fake
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Brace
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To support
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Breadth
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How broad something is
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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
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Chronic
Constant
| Example: chronic pain
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Complacent
Self-satisfied; smug
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Confectioner
Maker of candy
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Connoisseur
Expert
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Consequential
1. Important
| 2. Resulting
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Contour
Curve; shape
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Converge
To come together
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Cordial
Polite; friendly
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Counsel
To guide; to advise
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Criterion
Factor or quality used to judge something
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Dabble
To take a mild interest in something
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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
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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
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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, etc.
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Discipline
1. (N.) ability to practice regularly
| 2. (V.) to punish
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Discourse
Speech; conversation
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Discriminate
To notice differences
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Dishearten
To discourage
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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
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Document
To support with evidence
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Drought
Severe dryness
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Duration
How long something lasts
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Dynamics
The study if motion (In physics)
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Eccentric
Strange; unusual in an interesting way
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Egoist
One who pays too much attention to the self
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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 (example: to an institution)
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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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Error
Mistake in baseball
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Evade
To escape from; to avoid
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Exhibitionist
One who enjoys showing off
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Expertise
Skill
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Extravagance
Wasteful spending
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Fabricate
1. To create
| 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. (N.) a broken piece
| 2. (V.) to break into pieces
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Fraudulent
fake
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Fumble
Mistake in football
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Galaxy
A group of stars
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Ghastly
Horrible
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Glutton
One who eats to much
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Grandiose
1. Magnificent
| 2. Showy
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Gregarious
Sociable; friendly
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Grove
Small forest or field of trees
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Guzzle
To drink quickly
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Habitable
Fit to be lived in
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Hanger
Shelter for airplanes
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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 the 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
