Ramzi Vocab Flashcards

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Succumb

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Cumb-to lie down

  • (v.) to lay down and surrender / fail to resist
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Cubicle

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Cub:to lie down

-(n.) small closed off area of a room

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Incubate

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Cub-to lie down

-(v.) to keep in proper conditions for development

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Incumbent

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Cumb-to lie down

-(adj.) necessary for (someone) to do as a duty or responsibility

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Recumbent

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Cumb-to lie down

-(adj.) lying down, reclining

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Cumbersome

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Cumb-to lie down

-(adj.) large or heavy; difficult to carry or use

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Encumber

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Cumb-to lie down

-(v.) to restrict or burden so that movement is difficult

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Incubus

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Cub-to lie down

-(n) male demon

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Succubus

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Cub-to lie down

-female demon believed to have sex w/ sleeping men

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Culprit

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  • Culp: blame

- (n.) a person guilty for an offense

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Culpable

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Culp: to blame

-deserving blame or or censure

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Inculpate

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Culp: to blame

-(v.) accused or blamed

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Meaculpa

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Culp: to blame

-(n.) my fault

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Doctrine

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Dac/doc: to teach

-(n.) set of beliefs, dogma

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Indoctrinate

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Dac/doc: to teach

-(v.) to imbue with learning, brainwash

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Docile

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Doc/Dac: to teach

-(adj) ready to train, submissive or tractable

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Didactic

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Doc/dac: to teach

-(adj.) instructive, teachable, designed to teach

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Acid

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Sharp tasting; sour

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Ac/acr

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Sharp or bitter

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Acute

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Sharp, pointed

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Acerbic

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Sharp and forthright

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Exacerbate

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To make a situation worse

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Acrid

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Bad smelling

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Acrimonious

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Angry and bitter

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Acumen
Sharp in intellect
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Acerated
Needle shaped
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Apology
Expression of regret
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APO
Away
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Apostle
A representative or messenger
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CULP
Blame
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Culpable
Deserving blame
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Inculpate
Blamed or accused
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ROG
To ask
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Interrogate
To ask questions closely and aggressively
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Arrogant
Having exaggerated ones own ability; conceited
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Abrogate
To repeal or do away with a law
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Surrogate
A substitute
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Derogatory
Disrespectful
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Arrogate
Take or claim w/out justification
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Prerogative
A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class
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Rogation
Prayer
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Supererogatory
Class of actions that go beyond "call of duty"
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SED/SESS/SID
Sit/still OR Plan/plot
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Sediment
Matter that settles; debris
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Cessation
The process of ending
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Preside
To sit in a position of authority in a meeting or gathering
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Resident
A person who lives somewhere permanently
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Dissident
A person who is a against an official policy; a protester
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Residual
Remaining after the greater part or quantity has gone
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Subsidiary
Less important then but related to
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Insidious
Proceeding in a gradual subtle way but with harmful effects
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Assiduous
Showing great care and perseverance; diligent
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Sentiment
View/attitude towards event/situation; an opinion, feeling, view, attitude, belief
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Presentiment
Feeling about future
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Dissent
To hold use different from previously commonly or officially expressed
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SENS/SENT
To feel/be aware
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Resent
Do you feel bitterness or indignation at a circumstance action person; begrudge
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Sentinel
A soldier whose job it is to stand and keep watch
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Insensate
Without feeling
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SOL
To loosen to free
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Dissolve
To get rid of by adding water; to separate
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Soluble
Liquefiable
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Resolution
Formal expression of opinion
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Dissolution
Act or process of breaking apart; separation
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Dissolute
Indifferent
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Irresolute
Uncertain
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TIC/TAC
To be silent
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Reticent
Not revealing one's thoughts; reserved; withdrawn
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Tacit
Understood without being stated
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Taciturn
Reserved in speech; saying little; untalkative
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Detain
To keep in custody
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Pertain
To be appropriate, related, applicable
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Tenacious
Tending to keep firm hold (of something)
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Tenure
The holding or processing of anything
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Tenable
Capable of being held as against attack; viable
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Sustenance
Means of sustaining life; nourishment
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Abstention
Act of holding oneself back voluntarily
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Pertinacious
Stubborn
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TAIN/TEN/TENT/TIN
-to hold
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TRACT
-to drag; to pull; to draw
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Tractor
-smth for drawing or pulling
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Attract
To pull towards
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Contract
- binding agreement | - to draw/pull together
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Detract
To take away a part or quality; to diminish
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Abstract
-apart from concrete realities
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Tractable
Easily managed/controlled; docile
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Protracted
Prolonged; smth drawn
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TEND/TENS/TENT/TENU
To stretch; to thin
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Tendentious
Having a definite bias/purpose/predisposition
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Distend
To expand by stretch
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Tension
The act of stretching or straining
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Contentious
Tending to argue; quarrelsome
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Tentative
Unsure, uncertain
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Attenuate
Two we can reduce in force, effect, or quality
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Extenuating
Serving to make a fault appear less serious
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Tenuous
Thin or slender in form
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US/UT
-to use
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Abuse
To treat and harmful or offense way
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Usage
Way of doing smth
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Usurp
To seize power without legal rights
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Utility
Usefulness
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Utilitarian
Practical
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VI
-life
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Vivid
-bright or intense
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Vicarious
Received in place of another
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Viable
Capable of living
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Vivacity
Liveliness
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Joie de vivre
Joy of living
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Convivial
Friendly; agreeable; amicable