MT - Vocabulary Flashcards
(120 cards)
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To make easier or milder, relieve
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Assuage
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A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
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Coalition
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Decline, decay, or deterioration
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Decadence
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To draw forth, bring out from some source
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Elicit
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To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
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Expostulate
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Used so often as to lack freshness or originality
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Hackneyed
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A gap, opening, break
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Hiatus
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A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference
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Innuendo
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To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
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Intercede
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Wearied, worn-out, dulled
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Jaded
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Causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color
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Lurid
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Worthy, deserving recognition and praise
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Meritorious
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Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
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Petulant
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A special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence
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Prerogative
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Pertaining to an outlying area, local, narrow in mind or outlook
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Provincial
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To make a pretense of, imitate; show outer signs of
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Stimulate
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To rise above or beyond, exceed
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Transcend
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Shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; a vague suspicion
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Umbrage
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Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety
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Unctuous
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The expression of approval or favorable opinion
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Approbation
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Ameliorate
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To improve, make better, correct a flaw or short coming
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Aplomb
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Poise, assurance, great self-confidence, perpendicularly
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Bombastic
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Pompous or overblown in language, full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas
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Callow
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Without experience, immature, not fully developed, lacking sophistication and poise
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Drivel
Saliva or mucus, flowing from the mouth or nose, foolish, aimless talk or thinking
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Epitome
A summary, condensed amount, an instance that represents a larger reality
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Exhort
To urge strongly, advise earnestly
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Ex officio
By virtue of holding a certain office
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Infringe
To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds
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Ingratiate
To make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others
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Interloper
One who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder
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Intristic
Belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent
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Inveigh
To make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval
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Lassitude
Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy
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Millennium
A period of one thousand years, a period of great joy
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Occult
Secret, hidden from view, mysterious, magical, uncanny
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Permeate
To spread through, penetrate, soak through
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Precipitate
To fall as moisture, to bring about suddenly, to hurl down from a great height
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Stringent
Strict, severe, sharp or bitter to the taste
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Surmise
To think or believe without certain supporting evidence, to conjecture or guess
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Abominate
To have an intense dislike or hatred for
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Acculturation
The modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another
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Adventitious
Resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character, accidental
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Ascribe
To assign or refer to as, attribute
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Circuitous
Roundabout, no direct
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Commiserate
To sympathize wi h, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress
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Enjoin
To direct or order, to prohibit
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Expedite
To make easy, cause to progress faster
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Expiate
To make amends, make up for, to avert
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Ferment
A state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence
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Inadvertent
Resulting from or marked by lack of attention, unintentional, accidental
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Nominal
Existing in name only, not real
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Noncommittal
Not decisive or definite, unwilling to take a clear position
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Peculate
To steal something that has been given into one's trust, to take improperly for one's own use
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Proclivity
A natural or habitual inclination or tendency
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Sangfroid
Composure or coolness
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Seditious
Resistant to lawful authority
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Tenuous
Thin, slender, not dense, lacking clarity or sharpness, poorly supported
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Vitriolic
Bitter sarcastic, highly caustic or biting
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Wheedle
To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end.
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Affable
Courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
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Aggrandize
To increase in greatness, power, or wealth, to make appear greater
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Amorphous
Shapeless, without definite form
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Archetype
An original model on which something was patterned or replicated
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Aura
That which surrounds, a distinctive air or personal quality
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Contraband
Illegal traffic, smuggled goods
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Erudite
Scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic
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Gossamer
Thin, light, delicate, insubstantial
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Inscrutable
Incapable of being understood, impossible to see through physically
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Insular
Relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience
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Irrevocable
Incapable of being changed or called back
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Propensity
A natural inclination or predilection toward
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Querulous
Peevish, complaining, fretful
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Remonstrate
To argue with someone against something, protest against
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Repudiate
To disown, reject, or deny the validity of
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Resilient
Able to return to an original shape or form, able to recover quickly
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Reverberate
To re-echo, resound, to reflect or be reflected repeatedly
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Scurrilous
Coarsely abusive, vulgar or low, foul-mouthed
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Sedulous
Persistent, showing industry and determination
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Sleazy
Thin or flimsy in texture, cheap, shoddy or inferior in quality
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Amnesty
A general pardon for an offense against a government
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Autonomy
Self-government, political control
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Axiomatic
Self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle
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Blazon
To adorn or embellish, to display conspicuously, to publish or proclaim widely
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Caveat
A warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
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Equitable
Fair, just, embodying principles of justice
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Extricate
To free from entanglements or difficulties, to remove with effort
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Filch
To steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts
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Flout
To mock, treat with contempt
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Fractious
Tending to be troublesome, unruly, quarrelsome
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Precept
A rule of conduct or action
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Salutary
Beneficial, helpful, healthful, wholesome
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Scathing
Bitterly severe, withering, causing great harm
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Scourge
To whip, punish severely
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Sepulchral
Funereal, typical of the tomb, extremely gloomy or dismal
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Soporific
Tending to cause sleep
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Straightlaced
Extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct
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Transient
Lasting only a short time
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Unwieldy
No easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or complexity
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Vapid
Dull, uninteresting, tiresome, lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force
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Anomalous
Abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
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Aspersion
A damaging or derogatory statement, the act of slandering or defaming
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Bizarre
Extremely strange, unusual, atypical
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Brusque
Abrupt, blunt, with no formalities
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Cajole
To coax, persuade through flattery or artifice, to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises
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Castigate
To punish severely, to criticize severely
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Contrive
To plan with ingenuity, to bring about through a plan
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Demagogue
A leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
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Disabuse
To free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking
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Ennui
Weariness and dissatisfaction from lack or occupation or interest, boredom
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Fetter
A chain or shackle placed on the feet, anything that confines or restrains
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Heinous
Very wicked, offensive, hateful
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Immutable
No subject to change, constant
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Insurgent
One who rebels or rises against authority
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Megalomania
A delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc.
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Sinecure
A position requiring little or no work, an easy job
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Surreptitious
Stealthily, secret, intended to escape observation
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Transgress
To go beyond a limit or boundary, to sin, violate a law
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Transmute
To change from one nature, substance, or form to another
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Vicarious
Performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another
