LIST 1A Flashcards by shreya Chowdhary

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Abound

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To be present in great quantity

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Abduction

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Kidnapping

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Absurd

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Ridiculous

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Accomplice

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Helper

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Adhere

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To stick firmly

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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 weaknesses

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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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Anonymous

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Without a name

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Apparel

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Clothes

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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

1. To make an offer | 2. To order or command

Bloated

Swollen

Bogus

Fake

Brace

To support

Breadth

How broad something is

Buoyant

1. Happy | 2. Able to float

Byway

Side road

Cadet

Military student

Candid

Honest; open; outspoken

Carnivorous

Meat - eating

Censure

To criticize harshly; to blame

Chronic

Constant

Cleanse

To clean; to purify

Collage

A collection of pictures or images

Compassionate

Kind; sympathetic

Complacent

Self satisfied; smug

Composer

One who writes music

Compress

To press together

Conclusive

Definite; proven

Confectioner

Maker of candy

Connoisseur

Expert

Consequential

1. Important | 2. Resulting

Conspiracy

A secret plan to do something unlawful; a plot

Consumer

Buyer

Contour

Curve; shape

Converge

To come together

Cordial

Polite; friendly

Counsel

To guide; to advise

Crave

To want a lot; to long for

Criterion

Factor or quality used to judge something

Cumulative

Including everything from the beginning

Dabble

To take a mild interest in something

Decay

To rot

Decode

To translate a code into understandable language

Deflate

1. To remove air from something | 2. To discourage

Delete

To remove; to erase

Demote

To lower in rank

Descendant

Relative from a younger generation

Detect

To notice

Devise

To plan; to design

Dignity

Honor

Directory

A book of names, addresses, etc.

Discipline

1. Ability to practice regularly | 2. To punish

Discourse

Speech; conversation

Discriminate

To notice differences

Dishearten

To discourage

Dismay

Sadness; disappointment

disrepute

Having a bad reputation

Distant

Unfriendly

Distress

Worry; unhappiness

Document

To support with evidence

Drought

Severe dryness

Duration

How long something lasts

Dynamics

The study of motion

Eccentric

Strange; unusual in an interesting way

Egoist

One who pays too much attention to the self

Embrace

1. To hug | 2. To accept

Emotive

Emotional

Endow

1. To give talent or quality to someone | 2. To give money to

Enlighten

To inform; to make clear

Entity

1. Object; thing | 2. Living being

Equilibrium

Balance

Error

Mistake in baseball

Evade

To escape from; to avoid

Excerpt

A part of a quote or passage

Exhibitionist

One who enjoys showing Off

Expertise

Skill

Extravagance

Wasteful spending

Fabricate

1. To create | 2. To lie

Farfetched

Unbelievable

Flourish

To grow; to be successful

Forethought

Thinking beforehand

Fragment

1. A broke piece | 2. To break into pieces

Fraudulent

Fake

Fumble

Mistake in football

Galaxy

A group of stars

Ghastly

Horrible

Glutton

One who eats too much

Grandiose

1. Magnificent | 2. Showy

gregarious

Sociable; friendly

Grove

Small forest or field of trees

Guzzle

To drink quickly

Habitable

Fit to be lived in

Hangar

Shelter for airplanes

Haze

Fog; mist

Heir

A person who inherits

Hibernation

In animals, the state of sleeping through the winter; inactivity

Home run

Score in baseball

hurl

To throw forcefully

Hypothesis

Assumption; possible explanation