LIST 4A Flashcards
(100 cards)
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Abrupt
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Sudden
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Abode
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Home
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Accessory
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Addition; secondary part
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Addictive
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Habit - forming
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Adoration
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Worship
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Affinity
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Attraction
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Aggregate
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To gather
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Ailment
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Sickness
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Alibi
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Excuse
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Aloof
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Distant; unfriendly
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Amenity
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Something that provides pleasure or convenience
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Analogy
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Comparison
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Angular
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Sharp
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Antisocial
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Unfriendly
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appraisal
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Estimate
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Aquatic
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In water
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Arrogant
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Acting superior; conceited
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Astonishment
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Surprise
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Attend
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- To be present
2. To take care of; to pay attention to
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Authoritarian
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Favoring authority; dictatorial
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Balm
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Soothing lotion
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Bedridden
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Unable to move; stuck in bed
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Benign
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Kind; gentle; harmless
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Bleak
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- Depressing
2. Desolate
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Blunder
To make a foolish mistake
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Bounty
Reward
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Brawl
Fight
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Bulge
1. Something that sticks out
| 2. To stick out
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Bypass
1. A detour
| 2. To avoid
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Callous
Unfeeling; hard
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Captivating
Fascinating
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Cement
1. Concrete
| 2. To secure; to make solid
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Chaos
Complete disorder
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Clarify
To make clear
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Clog
To block
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Combatant
Fighter
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Compensate
To give equal value to
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Comply
To follow
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Compound
To add to
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Conceit
Thinking you're great
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Condense
1. To concentrate
2. To make shorter
3. To change from vapor to liquid
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Conform
To do as others do; to follow established rules
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Consecutive
In a row; next in order
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Conserve
To save; to preserve
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Constrain
To limit ones movement
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Contented
Happy
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Controversial
Provoking debate; questionable; arguable
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Convey
1. To send
| 2. To carry
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Cosmetic
Surface appearance; make up
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Cower
To shrink back in fear
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Credulous
Gullible; believing everything
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Cultivate
1. To grow
| 2. To develop or improve
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Cyclical
Moving in cycles
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Deadpan
Without emotion; without expression
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Decipher
To decode; to figure out
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Default
To fail to do what is required
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Dehydrate
To lose water
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Delinquent
1. A person with bad behavior
| 2. Overdue
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Derive
1. To arrive at by reasoning
| 2. To deduce
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Despairing
Hopeless
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Detrimental
Harmful
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Differentiate
To distinguish; to seperate
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Diminish
To reduce
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Discharge
1. To give out
2. To send away
3. To fire
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Discord
Disagreement
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Discrepancy
Inconsistency; difference
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Disfigure
To ruin the appearance of
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Dislodge
To knock something out of place; to remove
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Dispirited
Depressed; without enthusiasm
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Dissipate
1. To scatter
| 2. To use up foolishly
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Distinction
1. Difference
| 2. Quality of being unusual
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Diverse
Various; different
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Drawback
Disadvantage; problem
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Dune
Hill of sand
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Dwindle
To decrease
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Ecstasy
Great happiness
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Embitter
To make angry or bitter
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Emergence
Coming forward
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Endeavor
1. Task; project
| 2. To try
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Engage
To involve
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Enroll
To sign up
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Epidemic
Disease that spreads quickly
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Erratic
Un steady
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Ethnic
Having to do with a particular race or population
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Exasperate
To frustrate; to irritate
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Exertion
A lot of effort
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Exotic
Unusual in an exciting way
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Extensive
Far - reaching
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Fallacy
False idea
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Fickle
Often changing; not loyal
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Foremost
First; highest rank
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Formidable
Strong; intimidating
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Franchise
1. Right to vote
| 2. Right to sell a manufacturer's product
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Friction
Pressure; conflict
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Gender
Sex
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Glaucoma
An eye does de
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gorge
1. A deep canyon
| 2. To eat greedily
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Grasp
1. To perceive; to understand
| 2. To hold
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Grisly
Horrifying
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Gully
Trench or ditch formed by rain
