LIST 7A Flashcards
(73 cards)
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Aboveboard
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Honest
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Abate
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To decrease in force
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Accolade
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Award; praise
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acrid
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Bitter, as in taste or smell; harsh
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Admonish
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To warn; to criticize
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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; to diminish
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Amalgam
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Mixture
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Anachronistic
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Out of place in time
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Animosity
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Hatred; hostility
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Anomalous
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Out of place; unusual
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Anthology
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Collection of poems or stories
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Aphorism
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A short; wise saying
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Apprentice
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- A worker who is in training
2. An unskilled worker
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Archaic
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Ancient
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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 too
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Autonomy
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Freedom: independence
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Awry
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wrong; out of place; off the right course
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Banal
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Ordinary; boring
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Baseness
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- Inferiority; low rank
2. Crudeness
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Befuddle
To confuse
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Belligerent
Argumentative; aggressive
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Beret
round; flat cap
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Bigot
Prejudiced person
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Blatant
Obvious; attention - grabbing
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Bombastic
Loud and self - involved; pompous
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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, including oranges, lemons
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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. Logical
| 2. Holding together
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Colossal
Huge
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Commiserate
To sympathize
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Compost
Fertilizer
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Condone
To overlook
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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
Touching
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Conviction
Strong belief
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Corroborate
To prove evidence to support a view or an opinion
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Countermand
Command replacing a previous 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; to cripple
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Decoy
Trick; lure
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Deference
Extreme respectfulness
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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 the truth through reasoning
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Diffidence
Shyness; lack of confidence
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dilation
Process of becoming wider
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disapprobation
Disapproval
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Discern
1. To recognize
| 2. To distinguish between things
