List 7a Flashcards
(138 cards)
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Aboveboard
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Honest
Going above what most people is being honest
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Abate
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To decrease in force
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Accolade
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Award
It’s cool to get laid in reward
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Admonish
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To warm
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Affected
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Artificial, as in behavior; theatrical
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Alacrity
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Eagerness; cheerful promptness
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Alleviate
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To lessen
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Amalgam
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Mixture
Amalgam is a mixture of a a and other letters
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Anachronistic
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Out if place in time
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Animosity
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Hatred
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Anomalous
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Unusual
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Anthology
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Collection of stories or poems
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Aphorism
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A short, wise saying
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Apprentice
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- Worker who is in training
2. An unskilled worker
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Archaic
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Ancient t
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Arsenal
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Collection of weapons
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Aspirant
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A hopeful person
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Astute
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Smart
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Augment
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To add to
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Autonomy
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Independence
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Awry
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Wrong; out of place
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Banal
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Ordinary
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Baseless
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- Inferiority
2. Crudeness
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Befuddle
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To confuse
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Belligerent
Argumentative; aggressive
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Beret
Round, flat cap
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Bigot
Prejudice person
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Blatant
Obvious; attention grabbing
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Bombastic
Loud and self involved
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Brevity
Briefness
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Buffeted
Hit repeatedly
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Bustle
To hurry
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Cajole
To urge through flattery
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Calving
1. Giving birth to a calf
| 2. Losing part of oneself
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Cataclysmic
Terrible; tragic
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Caucus
Meeting
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cavort
To run around in a playful manner
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Certitude
Sureness; certainty
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Chary
Careful; wary
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Chide
To scold; to disapprove of
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Circumlocution
A roundabout way of speaking
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Citrus
Type of fruit
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Coagulate
To clot; to come together
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Coffer
Box in which valuables are kept
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Cohesive
1. Holding together
| 2. Logical
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Colossal
Huge
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Commiserate
To feel or show pity for
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Compost
Fertilizer
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Condone
To pardon
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Conflagration
Large fire
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Congregate
To come together in a crowd
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Conspicuous
Obvious
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Contiguous
Side by side
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Conviction
Strong belief
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Corroborate
To provide evidence to support a view or opinion
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Countermand
Command replacing a pervious one
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Crusader
One who fights for a cause
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Curator
Director of an institute
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Daunt
To threaten
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Debilitate
To weaken
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Decoy
Bait
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Deference
Submissiveness
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Degradation
Dishonor
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Denounce
To criticize
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Deride
To ridicule
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Despondent
Depressed
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Detest
To hate
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Dialectic
Method of finding truth though reasoning
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Aspirant
A hopeful person
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Diffidence
Shyness
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Dilation
Process of becoming wider
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Disapprobation
Disapproval
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Discern
1. to recognize
| 3. To distinguish between things
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Disinterested
Neutral
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Disposition
Mood
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Dissolution
The breaking into parts or pieces
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Ditty
Simple song
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Dogged
Persistent
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Dotard
Stupid person
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Dulcet
Pleasant sounding
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Eclectic
From many sources
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Efface
To erase
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Effusion
Act of freely expressing feeling or thought
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Elocution
Art of speaking well, especially in public
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Emancipated
Freed
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Embroil
Go get involved in an argument
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Enamored
In love with
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Engender
To produce
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Entomology
Study of insects
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Envenom
To make
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Equestrian
Related to horseback riding
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Esoteric
Understood only by w few people
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Eulogized
To say great things about
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Exacting
Demanding
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Exhort
To urge strong
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Expedite
To speed up the process
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Extol
To praise
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Exude
To give off
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Facetiousness
Inappropriate humor
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Fastidious
Fussy
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Felicity
Happiness
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Feudal
relating to a lord and tenting system of land divisions
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Fission
Act of splitting something into part
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Floe
Chunk of floating ice
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Foible
Minor flaw of weakness
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Fortify
To make stronger
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Frisky
Playful
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Furtive
Secretive
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Gale
A strong animal
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Game
Wild animal
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Garish
Gaudy
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Genesis
Beginning
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Germane
Relevant
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Gingerly
Cautiously
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Glib
Slick
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Grapple
To struggle with
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Guffaw
To laugh heartily
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Hackneyed
Cliched
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Heed
To follow
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Hidebound
Very stubborn
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Idiosyncrasy
Strange habit
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Impecunious
Having no money
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Implore
To beg
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Impugn
To call into question
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Incendiary
1. Casing fire
| 2. Stirring up trouble
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Incite
To provoke
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Incorrigible
Unable to be improved
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Indefatigable
Tireless
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Indoctrination
The teaching of a certain point of view
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Ineptness
Clumsiness
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Infirmity
Weakness
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Ingrained
Firmly established
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Innate
Present since birth
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Insinuation
Subtle, usually negative suggestion
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Intercede
To break up an argument and settle differences
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Intrepid
Brave
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Investiture
Process of investing office or title
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Iridescent
Colorful and shiny
