Nonfiction Vocab Flashcards
semester 1 (31 cards)
1
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quality of being suitable
A
propriety
2
Q
evil or harmful
A
malign
3
Q
careful about details
A
punctilious
4
Q
having hidden meaning
A
cryptic
5
Q
not concrete
A
transcendental
6
Q
lessened or ended
A
abated
7
Q
vocal solos in opera
A
arias
8
Q
loyal
A
staunch
9
Q
songs performed by a singer
A
repertoire
10
Q
evil or harmful
A
malevolent
11
Q
held back; restrained
A
repressed
12
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roughly or clumsily handled
A
mauled
13
Q
destroys; erases without a trace
A
obliterates
14
Q
the quality of not letting light pass
A
opacity
15
Q
taken power over; held by force
A
usurped
16
Q
an animal that eats other animals
A
predator
17
Q
stingy
A
parsimonious
18
Q
using
A
deploying
19
Q
suggestion
A
implication
20
Q
deny ownership
A
disown
21
Q
overused expressions
A
cliches
22
Q
uncertainty
A
ambiguity
23
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immoral
A
unethical
24
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without originality
A
banal
25
puzzling
perplexing
26
customary
conventional
27
meant to be useful
utilitarian
28
stimulation
provacativeness
29
by its very nature
inherently
30
storage place
repository
31
detailed presentation
particularization
