Part 6 Flashcards

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Cacophony

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harsh, loved, unpleasant sound

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Badinage

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Humorous or witty conversation, half teasing, playful not serious

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Banter

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Playful and pleasing exchange of teasing remark

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Persiflage

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Banter which is a little but indicative of contempt

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Cliche

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A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought

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Bromide

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A trite(overused) statement that intended to placate(calm)

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Platitude

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a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content

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Bovine

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relating to or affecting cattle

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Leonine

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resembling in lion’s appearance

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Canine

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resembling in dog

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Feline

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resembling in cat

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Equine

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resembling in horse

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Carnage

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great destruction of life

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Reincarnation

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Re-birth or reappearance

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Incarnate

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Embodied in human form

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Voracious

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Engaging in an activity with great eagerness and enthusiasm

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Omnipresent

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Present in all places at once

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Clandestine

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Kept or done in secret

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Surreptitious

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kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of

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Enervate

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To reduce the mental or moral strength

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Castigate

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To criticize someone severely

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Self abnegation

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The denial of one’s own needs in favor of the needs of other

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Recapitulate

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Summarize and state again the main points

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Decapitate

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To chop off someone’s head

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Capitulate
To surrender
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Vegetate
To live or spend a period of time in a dull monotonous unchallenging
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Monotonous
Doing same thing again and again when it gets bored
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Simulate
to give/assume/the appearance or character or effect of imitate
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Levity
lack of seriousness, especially when seriousness is required
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Alleviate
make it less severe
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Commiserate
To feel or express sympathy
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Vacillate
To waver/ hesitate in mind, will, feeling
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Obsequious
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
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Obsequies
The burial ceremonies
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Querulous
Complaining in rather whining manner
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Obstreperous
Noisy and difficult to control
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Supercilious
Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others
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Chivalrous
Respectful especially toward women
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Cavalcade
A procession of person on horse back
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Cavalier
As a noun cavalier was a mounted soldier as an adj; it is describes actions and attitude that are naughty, unmindful of other's feelings
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Cavalry
The mounted or 'horsed' part of an army
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Bibulous
Excessively found of drinking alcohol/ highly absorbent
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Imbibe
Assimilate/ absorb in the mind
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Bib
Upper part of an apron/ napkin around child's neck
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Cadaverous
Very pale, thin or bony
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Codaver
dead body
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Decandant
Deteriorating becoming corruptor
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Dolorous
Expressing misery or grief
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Dolor
A poetic synonym of grief
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Doleful
Full of grief
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Condole
Express sympathy
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Elegiac
Grief/sorrow
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Serendipity
Something happen by luck
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Inept
Foolish
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Profligate
The one who waste money
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Natty
The one who always find a false
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Verisimilar
Believing
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Inchoate
Beginning stage
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Fervent
Passionate
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Nascent
In the first stage of growing
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Incipient
In the start of development