My Word List Flashcards
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Recant
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To withdraw
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Frangible
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Breakable
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Gossamer
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A thread/extremely delicate
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Adamantine
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Too hard to break
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Primordial
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New life/beginning
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Philistine
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A person who is lacking in or hostile to cultural values
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Refractory
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Hard to manage; resistant to ordinary methods of treatment
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Panacea
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Remedy
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Ennui
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Boredom
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Extant
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Still in existence
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Recursive
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Pertaining to/returning to
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Defunct
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No longer in effect
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Amorphous
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Formless/lacking shape
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Actuate
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To put into action/motivate
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Inculcate
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To implant by repeated statement
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Capitulations
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A treaty to surrender
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Tenacious
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Holding fast/cohesive/firm hold
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Quintessence
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Pure/perfect example
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Inelectable
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Cannot escape or evade
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Levy
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A tax or conscription of troops
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Pharmacopoeia
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Stock of drugs
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Assiduity
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Constant effort
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Redound
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To make someone look good or give them credit for something they didn’t do
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Impugn
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Cast doubts upon/ criticize
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Amortize
To write off/to liquidate/to extinguish
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Malign
To speak harmful truths
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Macerate
To soften or separate into parts
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Supervene
To occur as something additional
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Ineffable
Incapable of being expressed
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Maladroit
Unskillful
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Equivocal
Did not take a stand/ falsehood
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Cogitation
Thoughtful consideration
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Approbation
Praise
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Reprisal
Vengeance
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Obfuscate
To hide/to confuse
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Punctilious
Finicky/ strict in regards to formalities
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Auguries
Omens
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Abiding
Enduring
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Insurgent
Rebellious
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Duplicity
Deceit/falsehood
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Liberality
Generous
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Fracas
Fight
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Accord
Harmony
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Aberration
Something that departs from normal
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Iteration
Repetition
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Mendacious
Dishonest
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Peregrination
Journey
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Cavalcade
Ceremonial progression
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Incisive
Clear and direct
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Affable
Friendly
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Hallowed
Holy
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Formidable
Strong
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Indication
Justification
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Umbrage
Offense
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Ersatz
Substitute
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Foible
Quirk
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Penchant
Inclination/propensity of
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Abominable
Detestable
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Prodigious
Large in size
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Sidereal
Related to the stars/astronomy
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Etiolated
Pale and sickly
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Comportment
The way in which one carries themself
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Recast
To cast again/ to form, fashion or arrange again
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Acrimonious
Sharp language
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Parsimony
Stinginess
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Ensconce
To establish/settle
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Prerogative
Luxury or privilege
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Plangent
Full of lamentation
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Invidious
Causing envy
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Jejune
Naive, simplistic, vapid (boring), immature
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Ludology
The study of games
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Imbibe
To drink/to absorb
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Belie
Contradict
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Antedate
Comes before
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Senescence
Aging
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Superannuation
The process by which something becomes obsolete
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Predilection
A preference or special liking towards something
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Cowed
Fearful
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Turgid
Full/complex
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Inveterate
Long established and unlikely to change
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Appropriate (verb)
Seize
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Repatriate
To send someone back to their own country
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Extradite
To get up to another state or nation at its request or to obtain the extradition of
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Interdict
To forbid
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Expurgate
To amend by removing words passages etc. deemed offensive or objectionable/ to courage or cleanse of moral offensiveness
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Repudiate
To reject
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Expound
To explain
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Capitalize
To take advantage of
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Intrepid
Fearless
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Perfunctory
Doing the same routine (mundane)
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Remedial
To cure
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Scorn
To disregard
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Spurn
To disregard/to scorn to receive
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Consecrated
Declared sacred
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Contrived
To devise / plan
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Concerted
To devise/ plan
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Flout
To show contempt for; scorn; to disregard
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Pedantic
Ostentatious in ones learning
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Aggrandize
To make larger
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Foment
To instigate or promote the development
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Ardent
Well intentioned
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Stymied
Thwarted
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Espouse
To support
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Disavow
Refuse to acknowledge or accept
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Vilipend
To dismiss or treat as a little value
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Notwithstanding
In spite of
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Inveighed
To criticize
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Demurred
To express doubt
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Declaimed
Argue
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Staid
Fixed/permanent
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Fulsome
Excessively lavish
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Unctuous
Falsely earnest / insincere
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Dissembling
To act hypocritically
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Dissemble
To disguise or mask ones true feelings
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Equanimity
Calm
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Vagrant
A person who wanders from place to place
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Indigent
Needy/poor
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Interdiction
To prohibit
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Behest
Strong request
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Insouciance
Unconcerned, nonchalance
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Utopian
Ideal yet impractical ( idealistic fantasy)
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Quixotic
Idealistic fantasy
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Vitriolic
Caustic, bitterly scathing
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Galvanizing
Stimulate or excite
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Incertitude
Uncertainty
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Hubris
Arrogance
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Superfluous
Unnecessary excess
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Nugatory
Trifling or unimportant
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Temerity
Reckless/ boldness
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Incommensurate
Not equal or disproportionate
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Conviviality
Friendliness
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Rakish
Dissolute ( indifferent to moral restraint)
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Dissipated
Indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure
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Satiate
To supply with excess so as to disgust
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Cloy
To weary by excess of goods, sweetness, or pleasure
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Derision
Ridicule/mockery
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Conjecture
To guess / infer
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Relegate
To assign
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Covenant
Agreement
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Extripate
To destroy or tear into bits
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Didactic
Intended to instruct
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Augury
Use of omens
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Lachrymose
Sad
