MST vocabulary Flashcards
(116 cards)
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Enmity (adj.)
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hostility
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Panacea (noun)
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a remedy/solution for everything; a cure-all; a nostrum
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Adamantine (adj.)
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very hard; unmoving
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Frangible (adj.)
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easily broken
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Gossamer (adj.)
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thin or fine
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Heretical (adj.)
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dissenting; deviating from the official or established
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Portentous (adj.)
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ominous
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Impute (verb)
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to assign or attribute to someone
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Vindicate (verb)
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to justify; to clear from blame
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Modish (adj.)
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fashionable
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Specious (adj.)
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fallacious, though plausible; tempting but false
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Redress (noun)
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remedy for; restitution
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Macerate (verb)
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to soften by soaking
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Redound (verb)
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to make someone look good
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Malign (verb)
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to slander; to defame
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Extant (adj.)
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existing
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Recursive (adj.)
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returning to the same point repeatedly
Lauren Simpkins’s recursive arguments are infuriating; they do not build on information presented in a discussion, and are adamantly opposed to thoughtful modification in and of themselves.
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Disparage (verb)
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to mock or belittle
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Actuate (verb)
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to put into action
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Preclude (verb)
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to prevent
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Wayward (adj.)
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willingly disobedient; capricious (in a honey-badger sense of the word)
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Inveigh (verb)
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to weigh in; to protest or advocate for strongly
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Postliminary (adj.)
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happening after
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Supervening (adj.)
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occurring after
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Maladroit (noun)
awkward; inept
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Disparaging (adj.)
belittling; pejorative
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Effluviate (verb)
to give off or emanate, especially something unpleasant
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Contravene (verb)
to go against, to contradict
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Descry (verb)
to catch sight of
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Avuncular (adj.)
relating to the uncle
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Hellenistic (adj.)
relating to Greek culture
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Predilection (noun)
tendency to think favorably about something in particular; partiality
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Rancorous (adj.)
full of resentment or umbridge
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Mawkish (adj.)
excessively sentimental; cloying; maudlin; bathetic
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Assimilate (verb)
to absorb mentally; to become adjusted
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Tortuous (adj.)
very twisted; complicated
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Consummate (verb)
1) to fulfill; accomplish; to bring to a state of perfection
| 2) to complete a contract by signing or making a pledge
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Jounce (verb)
to move joltingly or abruptly up and down; to bounce
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Espousal (noun)
adoption of a principal; a marriage
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Gainsay (verb)
to deny, dispute, or contradict
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Equivocal (adj.)
doubtful; uncertain
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Occult (adj.)
mysterious; secret; supernatural
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Blithe (adj.)
happy
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Sententious (adj.)
1) abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims
| 2) given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous
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Recalcitrant (adj.)
not obedient; resisting authority or control
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Sojourn (verb)
to stay temporarily
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conciliate (verb)
to win over; to appease
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Chimerical (adj.)
unreal or imaginary
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artless (adj.)
free from deceit, cunning, or craftiness; ingenuous
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Cagey (adj.)
cautious; wary; shrewd
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Paucity (noun)
scarcity
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Bravura (noun)
a display of darling; a brilliant performance
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Opprobrious (adj.)
shameful; abusive; hateful
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Beguiling (adj.)
charming or enchanting, sometimes in a deceptive way
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Metonymy (noun)
substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself
EX: "they counted heads;" "I need your John Hancock"
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Homonym (noun)
when two words are pronounced or spelled the same way, but have different meanings.
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Recondite (adj.)
little known; abstruse or obscure
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Derelict (adj./noun)
worn and broken-down; abandoned; a person without a job/home/property
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Condign (adj.)
well-deserved; fitting for the crime; adequate
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Syllogism (noun)
a rule of inference; a formal logical scheme used to draw a conclusion from a set of premises. (major premise; minor premise; conclusion)
Major: All squares are rectangles
Minor: Some rectangles are rhombs
Conclusion: Some squares are rhombs
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Stalwart (adj.)
loyal, reliable, hard-working
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Doughty (adj.)
steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant
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Discreet (adj.)
prudent, cautious, having good judgment; modest or unostentatious
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Cant (n)
a hypocritical statement; insincere in a platitudinous way
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Sanctimonious (adj.)
hypocritically self-righteous
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Jocund (adj.)
cheerful and lighthearted
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Meet (adj.)
suitable; fitting; proper
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Clement (adj.)
mild; merciful; gentle
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Flagrant (adj.)
shockingly evident; without shame
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Enormity (noun)
something outrageous or heinous; a sin or evil act
The enormity of the accidental murder situation was evident.
He committed quite an enormity by not only sexually harassing his female coworkers, but then lying about doing so.
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Appellation (noun)
a name or title
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Avowal (noun)
a statement asserting the existence or truth of something
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Disavowal (noun)
a denial of any connection with or knowledge of
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Abrogate (verb)
to repeal, abolish, or rescind
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Munificent (adj.)
very generous
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genial vs. congenial
genial: pleasant or happy
congenial: pleasant or agreeable BECAUSE that person/thing is suited to one's inclinations or preferences
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Portentous (adj.)
1) ominous; 2) pompous or overly-solemn
Secret societies at William & Mary are characteristically portentous: masks and hoods are excessively ceremonial marks of their rites and rituals, but their trivial mission statements are incongruous with this almost sacred behavior.
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Portend (verb)
to be a sign of warning; to be a signal of; to presage; to prognosticate
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Prognosticate (verb)
to foretell or prophesy (a future event)
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Penchant (noun)
strong habitual tendency; inclination; proclivity
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Prerogative (noun)
1) a right or privilege exclusive to an individual or a class; 2) a faculty or property distinguishing a person or class
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Premonition (noun)
a strong feeling of something about to happen, especially something unpleasant
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Importune (verb)
to ask for pressingly and persistently
SYN: pester; bother; pressure; molest; solicit
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Plangent (adj.)
loud, reverberating, and often melancholy
LOS CAMPESINOS!
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Malfeasance (noun)
wrongdoing, especially by a public official
The Magna Carta guarded against malfeasance on the king's part, among other provisions.
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Propitious (adj.)
favorably disposed; auspicious; opportune
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Clandestine (adj.)
kept secret or done secretively, especially due to an illicit nature
SYN: surreptitious; furtive; privy
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Hectoring (verb)
to talk to someone in a bullying way
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Adjure (verb)
to urge or request someone solemnly or earnestly to do something
I adjure you to tell me the truth.
Kate adjured me to get back together with her; it was really sad.
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Presentiment (noun)
an intuitive feeling about the future, especially one of foreboding
SYN: premonition; hunch; augury; presage
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Picayune (adj.)
petty; worthless
SYN: paltry; trifling; piddling
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insidious (adj.)
treacherous; crafty - proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects
SYN: sly; treacherous; crafty; perfidious
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Lascivious (adj.)
revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire
He gave her a lascivious wink.
SYN: lude; lustful; lecherous; voluptuous; salacious
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Emendation (noun)
a correction from critical editiong
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Obfuscation (noun)
bewilderment; confusion resulting from a failure to understand
I became angrily obfuscated after failing to understand the correct answer on the practice set.
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Elucidate (verb)
to explain; to clear up
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Commensurate (adj.)
corresponding in size, degree, or extent
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ascetic (adj.)
extreme self-discipline, typically for religious reasons
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ineluctable (adj.)
inevitable; inescapable; not able to be avoided
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truculent (adj.)
quick to fight; pugnacious; bellicose
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Invective (noun vs. adj.)
noun: insulting, abusive, critical language; a verbal attack
| adj. : offensive, insulting
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Vassal (noun)
servant or slave; a feudatory
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Patsy (noun)
A duped person; the victim of a scam
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Adroit (adj.)
clever or skillful in using the hands or mind
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Abnegate (verb)
to renounce or reject (esp. something desirable)
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Catechize (verb)
to teach by questioning
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inimitable (adj.)
too good to be duplicated, or to exist in the plural; Sarah
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Callow (adj.)
inexperienced; immature
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Palliation (noun)
an apology or excuse
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Promulgation (noun)
announcement
SYN: proclamation
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Exhortation (noun)
a speech intending to persuade (to do or not to do)
SYN: admonition (not to do)
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Intimation (noun)
a hint or implication
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Explicate (verb)
to analyze or develop an idea in detail
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Solipsism (noun)
the theory that the self is all that you truly know to exist
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Victuals (noun)
foor or consumable provisions
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Scintillating (adj.)
1) brilliantly and excitingly clever or skillful; 2) shining brightly or sparkling
