Max 11 Plus Vocab Flashcards

11 plus vocab (71 cards)

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Abode

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Where you live

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Adjacent

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Next to

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Altar

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where religious rituals are performed

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Alter

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to chage

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Amiable

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being good natured and friendly

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Arid

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Extremely dry, without moisture

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belittle

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to put someone down

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bestow

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to give to someone

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Blemish

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a mark that detracts from how nice something looks, or to damge or ruin something

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Breadth

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the width of something, or the size of something generally

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Clog

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a wooden shoe, or when something is blocked up

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compassionate

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consideration of and feeling for someone else’s suffering

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conciliatory

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to be comprimising and agreeable for the purposes of goodwill

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Crafty

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skillful in lying and playing tricks

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Credible

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believable

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Culminate

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to end, or arrive athe the final goal

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Deprecate

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to express disapproval of

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depreciate

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to lessen the value or price of something, or someone

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desolate

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bare, empty, lonely, barren

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detest

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very strong dislike

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disparage

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to put someone down

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disparage

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to treat with disrespect, or to put someone down

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Docile

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compliant and easy to handle, teachable

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Eclipse

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when the sun or the moon’s light is blocked from view, or to be better by comparison

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Engrossed
to have your attention completely captured
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expressive
ability to communicate thoughts and feelings, through words, facial expressions, and other creative mediums - art, music etc
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Fable
a short story or tale to teach a moral lesson
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Fad
something that is temporarily popular
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fallow
farming fields that have been left unseeded for a growing season
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Farce
a ridiculous situation, or a funny play
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Finite
of limited supply
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Forlorn
lonely and sad
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Freighter
transport used for carrying goods/cargo
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granted
to be given, or allowed to have something: eg permission, a wish or a sum of money
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Gratify
to give pleasure by satisfying somebodys wants/desires
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heirloom
a family possession handed down from generation to generation; often jewellery, furniture or paintings
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Humble
to be modest, courteous and respectful rather than arrongant and proud
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implausible
not believable
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inability
lack of ability, not able to do something
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inlet
a long narrow passage of water coming in from the shoreline
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intimidate
to overpower someone in a non physical way, to bully and threaten
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Limerick
a humourous rhyming poem of 5 lines
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Loathe
deep hatred
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mandatory
something you have to do, no option
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Meek
overly compliant and submissive
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Miserly
has money, but doesn’t like spending it
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moderate
of medium quantity, not too much or too little
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modest
a limited amount of something, also not being arrogant or boastful
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neutral
not supporting any side over the other, in the middle, or having no extreme characteristics eg the colour beige
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Pail
a bucket
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Perpendicular
at right anngle to, eg a capital T
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Placate
to calm someone down often through conciliatory gestures
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plausible
believable, worthy of confidence and trust
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Propserous
to have financial success or good fortune
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prudent
being wise and careful
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Quell
to put an end to or extinguish eg put out a fire
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ransack
to search thoroughly or vigorously to find something of value
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Refuse
rubbish, or to decline or say no to something
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reinstate
to put something/someone back into its original position
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resolute
a firm determination of opinion or purpose
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restore
to bring back to normal condition
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Rivet
a metal pin that holds things together, or when you are fully captivated by something
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satin
smooth glossy type of material eg silk, or a finish which is satin like
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Sparse
thinly spread, not thick or dense
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Squander
to spend or use wastefully
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Steal
to take something that doesn’t belong to you
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Steel
a type of metal
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submissive
when you give into someone more powerful than you
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Surly
bad tempered, grumpy
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waylaid
to have been distracted, or intercepted whilst going somewhere or doing something
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Withhold
to hold back, not give something