Midterm Vocab Flashcards

(29 cards)

1
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having mixed feelings or conflicting ideas about someone

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Ambivalent

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Uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language

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Ambiguity

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3
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Describing a person who is able to you both their right and left hand

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Ambidextrous

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4
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Relating to, living in, or suited for both land and water

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Amphibious

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5
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A round or oval building, typically un roofed with a central space for presentation or performances and sporting events. Tiers of seats for spectators

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Amphitheater

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A fact or condition surrounding and relevant to the event, action, or situation.

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Circumstance

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7
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To be careful to consider everything that might happen

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Circumnavigate

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8
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A science dealing with the operation of aircraft; the art of science of flight

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Circuspect

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9
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Find a way around an obstacle: to overcome a problem of difficulty typically in a clever secetive way

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Circumvent

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10
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The enclosing boundary of a curved geometric figure especially a circle, the distance around something

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Circumfrance

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11
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A quickly constructed barrier to stop an enemy

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Barricade

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12
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A monarch, such as a king or queen

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Sovereign

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13
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A persons relatives

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Kin

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14
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wasting time, idling

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dawdling

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15
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Bound by a contract, obligated, enslaved

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indentured

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16
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The closing off or surrounding of a place

17
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To get by use of special meaning

18
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having a tendency towards something

19
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The owner of a buisness

20
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Stupid or confused

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Rudeness or boldness

22
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Slightly salty

23
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Annnoying

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straw-filled matress

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richly woven fabric
Brocade
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Grindstone,sharpener
Whetstone
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whipped, beaten
flogged
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outhouse
privy
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extremely confused
confuddled