List 1b Flashcards

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Illustrious

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Famous

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Ideology

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Set of ideas typical of a social or political group

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Impair

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To make worse

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Imperceptible

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Not able to be seen or heard

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Impulse

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Sudden urge

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Incapacitated

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Lacking physical or legal power

In capable of physical or legal power

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Incompetence

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Inability to function properly

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Indifferent

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Lack of interest or feeling( apathetic

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Indistinguishable

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Identical; hard to tell apart

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Inert

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Lacking the power to move; inactive

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Infinite

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Unlimited

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Innovate

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To be creative; to do something new

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Innovate

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To be creative; to do something new

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Insight

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A sudden understanding

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instantaneous

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Immediate - INSTANT

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Integral

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Important

It’s integral to integrate

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Intervention

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Interference

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Intuition

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A hunch or feeling about something

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Irreparable

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Unfixable

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Jack

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Device for lifting something heavy

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Judicious

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Wise

Judges must me judicious

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Kernel

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The central or important part

The kernel of popcorn is the kernel

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Labored

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Done with great effort

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Lavish

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  1. Adj - extravagant

2. Verb- to give away in large amounts

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Lethargic
Tired; lazy Lethargic people would rather say tired or lazy
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Lofty
1. Very tall or high in air
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Luxuriant
1. Richly decorated 2. Growing abundantly The lexinberg family have a luxuriant house and bank account
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Malice
Hatred
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Matriculated
To enter or to enroll People named Marty are obsessed with matriculating
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Medley
Group of songs strung together
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Meritorious
Having value;
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Mcrobe
Tiny, microscopic organism
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Mine
1. Noun- place where metal is found | 2. Verb- to dig for metal
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Miser
A person who hates spending money | Misters are misers
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Monarchy
A state red by a king or queen
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Multiplicity
Involving more than one
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Negligence
Carelessness; oversight
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Notorious
Famous for being bad
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Objective
1. Noun- goal | 2. Adj- neutral; impartial ; without feelings
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Obstinate
Stubborn People who abstinent are obstinate about not having sex
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Optician
Eye doctor
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Painstaking
Very careful
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Partisan
Supporters of an idea or a cause Part of the cause
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Pedestrian
1. Noun- one who travels by foot | 2. Adj/ on place; ordinary; banal; unimaginative
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Perpetual
Everlasting; continue forever
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Petty
If little importance; trivial
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Pitiable
Worth of sympathy
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Poised
1. Ready | 2. In control if ones emotion and behavior
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Portfolio
A set of pictures or documents
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Preconceived
Panned in advance
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Predicament
Problem situation
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Prescience
Foresight; ability to predict the future
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Presume
To take for granted; to believe without reason
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Principled
Moral; ethical
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Progressive
Moving toward
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Prophet
1. One who predicts future events | 2. Messenger from god
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Prudent
Careful
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Quake
To shake or tremble
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Radiate
To give off
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Rash
Hurried; without thinking
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Recipient
One who receives
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Reclusive
Living alone; secluded
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Recurrent
Repetitive; happening again
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Refuge
A shelter from danger
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Regional
Of a particular geographic area
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Reinstate
To restore; to out back into a former position | There was too much rain in the state and they needed to reinstate the house
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Remission
Temporary weakening of force
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Renovate
To repair; to restore
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Reputability
Being well though of; respectable Having a good reputation
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Resist
To fight against
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Restore
To bring back to a former or normal condition
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Revive
To bring back to life
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Ripple
Small wave on the surface
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Rural
From the country
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Saccharine
Overly sweet; falsely kind Sacch of bullshit
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Scrutinize
To examine carefully
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Sentiment
Feeling of emotion
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Sever
To separate; to cut
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Shrug
To raise one's shoulder
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Sluggish
Slow moving
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Solidarity
Togetherness
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Spacious
Roomy
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Spontaneity
Suddenness, impulse
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Stained
1. Discolored | 2. Dishonored
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Static
Not moving, not changing
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Stroke
A single deliberate movement or action
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Subtle
Not easily seen; difficult to understand
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Synthesis
Combination of party's to create a whole
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Tact
Ability go do or say the right thing at the right time
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Suppress
To keep down by force
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Sustain
To maintain; to keep up
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Tangent
A sudden change of topic
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Temperament
Mood, character
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Terrestrial
Of the earth
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Touchdown
Score in football
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Trawler
Fishing boat Go on the trawler to catch the exotic trawl
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Troupe
A groups of performers | Of the 7 groups at the meeting today, 2 were troupes
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Ultimate
1. Final | 2. Best
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Unbounded
Without limits
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Unethical
Immoral
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Universal
Widespread
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Uphold
To enforce; to support
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Utterance
Something spoken | To utter
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Vacant
1. Empty | 2. Without expression
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Vandal
One who damages property
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Verbose
Using more words than are necessary
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Veto
To forbid, to prevent by vote
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Vulgar
Crude; lacking culture
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Weary
Tired
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Witticism
Witty comment
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Zany
Crazy