List 6a Flashcards
(122 cards)
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Eschew
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Deliberately avoid using
I’m going to eschew myself from using that
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Coerce
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To persuade to do something by using force or threats
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Gambol
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Run of jump about playfully
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Air
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To bring out into the open
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Condescending
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Patronizing
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Forswear
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Agree to give up or do without
For he swore to forswear meet during lent
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Assuage
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To ease
He felt assuaged after he massage
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Dart
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To move quickly
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Extricate
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To free from constraint
To extract
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Browbeat
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To bully
Bully’s are bad brows
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Exacerbate
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To make worse
Masturbating only exacerbates how lonely you Are
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Burnish
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To polish
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Expatriate
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To remove from ones homeland
People who come from different countries have new traites
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Acquiesce
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To accept something reluctantly but without protest
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Defy
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To resist openly
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Berate
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To scold
The critique berated the movie with a C rate
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Abase
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To degrade
A basis to abase him is his cockiness
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Extemporize
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To improvise
They temporarily extemporized because the lead forgot her lines
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Elicit
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Evoke: trigger
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Aperture
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An opening, hope or gap
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Drudgery
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Hard, menial or dull work
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Clemency
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Mercy
Have mercy on the Clemens
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Inlet
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Small bay
In the small bays lets the little children play
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Feint
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An action intended to mislead and opponent
Feints aren’t fair
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Contusion
Bruise
| Some consider the supreme courts commitment to the constitution a contusion
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Anecdote
A short and assuming story
| My favorite anecdote is about ann and her toad
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Invective
Insult
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Blunderbuss
An old fashioned shotgun
| Gonna cause quite a blunder with that blunderbuss
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Allegory
A symbolic story
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Facade
1. The face of a building
| 2. Surface appearance
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Barracks
Barack had to stay in barracks
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Hedonist
One who loves physical pleasures
| Asking for head everyday is something a hedonist would do
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Cupidity
Greed
| Cupid is very greedy
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Dissent
Disagreement; difference or opinion
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Iconoclast
A person who attacks established ideas
| Iconoclasts attack the icon
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Catharsis
Emotional release
| Cathartic
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Equanimity
Calmness
| When one experiences equanimity all their factors are set equally
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Determinate
Definite; limited
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Ebullient
Bubbly
| The bull was big ebullient when it ran me over
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Fallow
Unplowed
| Sewards fallow
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Finesse
Skill; gracefulness
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Decorum
Proper behavior
| Decorate yourself with proper decorum
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Collow
Immature; inexperienced
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Congenial
Pleasant
| Genital warts are nog congenial
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Flippant
Joking disrespectful
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Arcane
Mysterious; secret
| The mysterious man walks with a cane
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Dispassionate
Impartial
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Cherubic
Angelic
| God doesn't judge angles on a rubric
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Incisive
Sharp or cutting
| To preform an incision your device must be Incisive
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Coreplent
Fat
| People who are corpulent have a big core
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Indignant
Characterized by a sudden feeling of anger or shock
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Amorphous
Without shape
| The only thing he can morph into is amorphous
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Didactic
Indented to teach
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Emaciated
Thin
| Eat Mac and cheese to avoid being Emaciated
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Dilapidated
A state of ruins
| Dilapidated is a word that needs repaid
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Cacophonous
Harsh sounding
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Exemplary
Praise worthy
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Anterior
Placed in front, earlier
| We renovated the interior anterior
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Jaded
Bored
| I'm too bored with sat words to think of a good nemonic devise
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Fraught
Filled with
| He was fraught with fret
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Acclimatization
Becoming used to something; getting comfortable
Get acclimatized with climate
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Adjunct
Something attached to a main
| Like adjacent
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Altruism
Goodness; selflessness; generosity
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Annulment
Cancellation
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Aristocratic
High class, as in qualities of nobility
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Ascetic
1 noun- a person who refuses bodily pleasures (opposite of a hedonist)
2 adj - without pleasure
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Audacity
Gall; nerve
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Autocratic
Favoring complete rule by one person
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Avow
To swear by
| To vow
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Balk
To hesitate suddenly
| The bulk of wood in the road caused the car to balk
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Becalmed
Made peaceful or still
| Made to be calm
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Bellicose
Warlike in manner
| "Bell I gotta go cose the country needs me "
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Bourgeois
Middle class; conformist and materialistic
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Castigate
To punish or criticize harshly
| To castigate you i cast a gate around you
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Caustic
Unkind; bitter; sarcastic
| Caustic people cause problems
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Ceremonious
Formal
| Ceremony
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Charted
Planned; plotted; mapped
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Circuitous
Roundabout; not straightforward
| Circular
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Cite
To quote
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Colloquial
Informal but common speech
| Spoken in the colonies but not England
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Commend
To Praise
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Compliant
Giving in to others; obedient
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Conscript
To force into service
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Contentious
Argumentative
| Likes to content
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Cosmopolitan
1. Sophisticated
| 2. From the city
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Crest
Peak; top
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Debauchery
Corruption; physical self indulgence
| Douchebag debauchery
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Defector
One who leaves his or her side to join the enemy
| They are a defect
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Demographer
An expert on population statistics
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Deprecate
To criticize
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Dirge
Funeral song
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Disbursement
Spending
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Disenfranchise
To take away someone's right to vote
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Dither
To be indecisive
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Doctrine
Something taught
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Dormant
1. Asleep
| 2. Inactive
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Edifying
Enlightening; uplifting
| Education is edifying
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Embody
To express; to give concrete form to
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Endemic
Limited to, but widespread in, a particular place
| A small epidemic
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Enthall
To fascinate
| He was so enthralled with caves he threw himself into one
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Fetter
1. Noun - a Chain
| 2. Verb - to prevent from moving
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Fluster
To embarrass; to upset
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Furrow
1. Noun - ditch or hold in the ground
| 2. Verb - to wrinkle
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Gag
1. Joke
| 2. To prevent from speaking
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Gargantuan
Huge
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Gentry
Upper class
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Gill
A fish's breathing organ
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Glaring
1. Adj - obvious
| 2. Verb -staring angrily
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Hack
1. Noun - writer for hire
| 2. Verb - to cut
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Heretofore
Until now
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Impalpable
Unable I to be touched or understood
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Implacable
Incapable of being soothed or changed
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Impudence
Rudeness
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Incantation
Magical chant or spell
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Incorporeal
Without physical existence; not of the body
| Without core
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Ineffectual
Useless
| Has no effect
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Infinitesimal
Extremely small
| Infinitely small
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Ingenious
Clever; resourceful
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Insidious
Dangerous in a way that is difficult to see
| Incest was insidious for many many years
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Intemperate
1. Extreme
| 2. violent
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Intransigent
Stubborn; refusing to Compromise
| Can not get through to them (trans)
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Irate
Very angry
| When he got irritated he irate
