list 8b Flashcards
(112 cards)
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latent
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hidden, but capable of being developed
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jaunty
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lighthearted, playful
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libel
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printed lies that harm someone’s reputation
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listless
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slow, lacking energy
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luminary
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a famous person
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magnate
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powerful person (especially in business)
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malignancy
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harmfulness
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marred
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spoiled, damaged
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Maudlin
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overly sentimental
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mercurial
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changeable, moody
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mitigate
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to make less painful, to become less severe
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monolithic
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huge
like a single, seamless whole
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nefarious
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wicked
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niche
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a space scooped out of a wall
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obfuscating
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confusing, clouding
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odious
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disgusting, hateful
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omniscient
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knowing everything
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palisade
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line of cliffs
fence made out of stakes
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panache
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style,
flair
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pare
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to remove or reduce by cutting
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party
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to wafts off (a punch), to deflect
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patter
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meaningless speech
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pejorative
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insulting
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penury
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poverty
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perfidy
disloyalty, untrustworthiness
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pinion
wing
| to hold someone down
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placard
poster
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plaudit
praise
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pontificate
to speak in a know it all way
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precariousp
dangerous
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precocious
matured earlier than normal, froward
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prevaricate
to lie
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profligate
very wasteful, extravagant
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propensity
special liking for somehing, tendency, preference
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proselytizer
one who attempts to convert others to his relgiin
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protrusion
somehig that sticks out
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prune
a dried plum
| a trim, as in a tree or bush
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purgation
purification, freedom from blame
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putrid
bad smelling, spoiled
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quagmire
a problem that is difficult to escape
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quell
to quiet, to pacify
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quip
a clever or witty remark
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raconteur
story teller
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rancor
hatred
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raze
to destroy completely
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redoubtable
causing great or extreme respect
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remiss
careless, not responsible
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repertoire
group of skills that can be performed
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reprehensible
shameful, blameworthy
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reprove
to criticize
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respite
a rest period
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retinue
staff for a high ranking person, team or attendants
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rhapsodize
to express with great delight
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rigor
severity, strictness
| strict accuracy to detail
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rotund
round, fat
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rudimentary
elementary, basic
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salutary
beneficial, healthful
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sanguine
optimistic, cheerful
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Savant
someone who knows a lot
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scorn
to show dislike and disrespect
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scuttle
to sink a ship by cutting holes I it
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secrete
to give off a liquid or other substance
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seismologist
one whole studies earthquakes
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sentenial
a guard
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sieve
a mesh used for straining or separating
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slacken
to become slower
| to loosen a rope
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slough
a swamp, muddy hole
| to she's
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smorgasbord
meal involving many different kinds of food
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snuff
tabacco inhaled throguh the nose
| to extinguish
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somnambulist
sleepwalker
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sparse
thinly spread, almost bare
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spurn
to reject openly
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staid
serious
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status quo
the unchaning way things are
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stifle
to prevent, to hold back
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stoop
a porch
| to bend over
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strife
to fight for PowerPC, discord
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stupor
a state of shock or filled senses
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subsist
to survive barely
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supersede
to replace
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supplicant
beggar
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susceptible
easily influenced, vulnerable
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synopsis
summary
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tactiturn
not talkative, silent
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tantamount
equivalent
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teeming
overflowing
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tenuous
weak, poorly supported, thin
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tidings
news
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tome
a long book
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tractable
easily manageable obedient
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transposition
act of changing the position or order of something
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trite
stale, unoriginal, cliched, overused
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unaffected
sincere, down to eath
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undertaking
task or
| job
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unheralded
unannounced
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unpalatable
distasteful, unpleasant
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unrepentant
not sorry, having no regret
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unwary
not alert, easily fooled
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urbane
polite, elegantly mannered
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vagabond
wanderer
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variegated
multicolored
| various, diverse
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venerate
to respect greatly, to worship, to revere
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versatile
having many different kinds of skills, mukipurpose
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vilify
to criticize harshly
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viscious
sticky, gluey, thickly liquid
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vogue
fashion, trend
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vouchsafed
to give graciously, to grant a special favor
| to ripely
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wanderlust
love of travel
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wayward
going again societies expectation
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whet
to sharpen
| to excite, to stimulate
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wilt
to become limp, to stoop
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either
to dry up and die
