Reading Comp Words Flashcards
(195 cards)
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Aberration, Anatoly
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Something that stands out or is abnormal
Outlier
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Acclaim
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Great praise or approval
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Accord, discord
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Accord= agreement Discord= disagreement
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Acquisitiveness
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Desire to acquire more, especially an excessive desire
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Average
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Land measured in acres
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Adhere to, adherent
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To stick to (belief, plan, cause)
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Ad-lib
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Make something up on the spot
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Adopt
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Take and make ones own- vote to accept
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Advent
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Arrival
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Adverse
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Unfavorable, opposed
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Agency
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The ability to use power or influence
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Aggravate
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To make worse
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Altogether
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Completely overall
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Ambivalent
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Uncertain and unable to decide
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Amortize
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Gradually pay off. A debt
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Analogous
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Corresponding in a particular way
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Annex
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To add on
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Annihilate
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Completely destroy
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Annul
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To make void or cancel
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Anoint
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To power or praise given to someone who is thought very highly of
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Antithetical to
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Opposite to
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Application
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Act or result of applying
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Apprentice
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A person who works for someone else in order to leant trade
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Arbiter
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Judge, umpire or person empowered to decide matters at hand
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Archaic
Characteristic of an earlier ancient period
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Aristocracy
A hereditary ruling class nobility
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Artifact
Any object made by humans of earlier time
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Ascribe to, ascriptipn
To give credit
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Assert
Affirm, says, claim or express
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Assimilation
The process by which a minority group adopts the customs and ways of lot of a. Larger group o blend in
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Attain
Achieve
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Attribute to
Give credit to
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Atypical
Not typical
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Backfire
To produce unexpected results
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Balance
To maintain leftover amount
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Baldly
Plainly, explicitly
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Balloon
To swell of puff out rapidly
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Befall
Happen to (for something bad)
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Belie
Contradict or misrepresent
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Benevolent
Expressing goodwill or helping others
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Benign
Harmless
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Blight
Disease that kills plans rapidly
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Blunt
To dull, weaken of make less effective
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Bolster
Strengthen or support
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Brook
To suffer or tolerate
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Buffer
Something that separates two group
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Bureaucracy
Government characteriRd by many bureaucrats
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Bygone
Past, former
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Bypass
Avoid, go around, ignore
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Canon
Body of accepted rules, standards
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Chancy
Risky, not having a certain outcome
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Checked
Restrained, held back
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Clamor
Noisy uproar
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Coalesce
Come together, unite
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Coercion
Force use of pressure
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Cogent
Very convincing, logical
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Cognitive
Relative to thinking
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Collude
Conspire
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Compound
Add interest to principle and accrued interest
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Concede
To give in, admit and give up
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Condone
Overlook, tolerate, regard as harmless
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Confer
Consult, compare views or give
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Contend
Assert
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Converge
Move toward one another to unite
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Convoluted
Twisted very complicated
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Copious
Plentiful, bountiful
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Corresponding
Accompanying, having the same or almost the same relationship
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Corroborate
Support, add evidence to
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Countenance
Approve or tolerate
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Counterintuitive
Against what a person would intuitively expect
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Counterpoint
Contracting item
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Credibility
believability, trustworthiness
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Curtail
Cut short or reduce
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Cynical
Thinking the worst of other's motivations, bitterly pessimistic
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Debase
Degrade lower quality
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Debunk
Expose, ridicule
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Decry
Comb openly
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Deflect
Cause to curve
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Delimit
Fix, mark or define boundaries of
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Denote
Be a name of symbol for
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Deride
Mock, Scoff at
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Deterrent
Something that restrains or discourages
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Dichotomy
Division into two parts of into two contradictory groups
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Disclosure
Exposing the truth
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Discount
Ignore
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Discredit
Injure the reputation of
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Discrepancy
Difference or inconsistency
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Discrete
Separate or distinct
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Discretionary
Subject to someone's judgement
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Disinterested
Unbiased, not taking a side
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Disparate
Distinct, differenc
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Dispatch
Speed, promotes
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Disseminate
scatter, spread about
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Divest
Deprived or strip of
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Dovetail
Join or fit together
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Dubious
Doubtful, questionable
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Echelon
A level, rank or grade
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Eclipse
One thing covering up another
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Efficacy
The quality of being able to produce the intended effect
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Egalitarian
Related to belief in the equality of all people
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Egregious
Extraordinarily or conspicuously bad
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Emancipate
Free from Slavery or oppression
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Eminent
Prominent, distributed high rank
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Empirical
Coming from, based on or able to be verified by an experiment
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Emulate
Copy in attempt to be equal to or better
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Enigma
Puzzle, mysterious
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Ensure vs insure
Insured- insurance
| Ensure- guarantee
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Enumerate
Count or list
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Equitable
Fair or just
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Equivocal or equivocate
Used unclear language to decide or avoid commuting to a position
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Erroneous
Mistaken in erro
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Erstwhile
Former, previous
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Escape velocity
The min velocity that an object must maintain in order to completely execs or a gravitational field
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Estimable
Worthy of esteem, admirable
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ethos
The character, personality or moral values
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Exacerbate
Make worse
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Exacting
Very severe In making demands
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Exhaustive
Comprehensive, thorough
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Expansionist
Wanting to expand
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Expedient
Suitable, proper, effective
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Explicit
Direct, clear, fully Revealed
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Extraneous
Irrelevant
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Extrapolate
Conjecture about an unknown by projecting information about something known
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Facilitate
Make easier
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Faction
A group within a larger organization
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Faculty
An ability, often a mental ability
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Fashion
Manner or way
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Fathom
Understand deeply
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Fleeting
Passing quickly
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Forestall
Delay, hinder
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Glacial
Slow, cold, unsympathetic
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Grade, gradation
To slant or progression of taking place gradual in stages
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Graft
Join together plant parts or skin so that two living things grow together
The act of acquiring money or other benefits through illegal means
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Grandstand
Perform showily in attempt to impress onlookers
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Guesswork
A set of guesses or estimates
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Guile
Clever deceit
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Hardy
Bold, brave, capable
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Hearken of hark
Listen, pay attention to
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Hedge
Avoid commitment by leaving provisions for withdrawal or changing ones mind
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Hegemony
Domination, authority
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Host
Large amount (host of problems)
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Hyperbole
Deliberate exaggeration for effect
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Iconoclast
Attached of cherished beliefs or institutions
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Imminent
Ready to occur, impending
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Impartial
Unbiased
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Impasse
Position or road from which there is no escape
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Impede
Hold back, obstruct the progress of
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Impinge on
Trespass on, violate
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Imply
Hint at, suggest
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Impute
To credit to, to attribute to
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Inadvertently
Accidentally, carelessly as a side effect
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Inasmuch
Since, because
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Incidentally
Accidentally
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Incinerate
Burn, reduce to ashes
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Indeterminate
Not fixed or determined, vague
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Induce
Persuade or influence, bring about
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Inert
Inactive, having little of no power to move
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Inextricably
In a way such that one cannot untangle or escape something
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Inform
Inspire, animate
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Ingenuity
Incentive skill, imagination
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Ingrained
Deep rooted
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Inherent
Existing as a permanent, essential quality
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Inordinate
Excessive
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Instrumental
Serving as a means of doing something
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Insular
Pertaining to an island- detached
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Interplay
Interaction
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Intractable
Difficulty to control, manage or manipulate
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Intrepid
Fearless, brave
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Intrinsic
Bobbi g to the essential nature of such things
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Inundate
Flood, cover with water, overwhelm
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Investiture
Investing, formally giving someone a right or title
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Isotope
Forms of the same chemical of element with different number of neutrons
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Jettison
Discard, cast off
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Juxtapose
Place side by side to make a comparison.
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Kinetic
Pertaining to motion
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Lackluster
Not shiny, dull
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Latent
Potential, existing but not visible or active
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Lateral
Sideways related to located at the side
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Lax
Not strict, careless loose
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Laypeople
Regular peoe
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Levy
Elect tC from wager war on
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Liberal
Favorable to progress of reform believing in maximum possible freedom
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Machination
Crafty schemes. Or plots
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Magnate
Very important or influential person
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Malleable
Able to be bent, shaped or adapted
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Manifest
Obvious, apparent
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Mantle
Layer of earth between crust and core
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Maxim
A general truth or fundamental principle
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Mercurial
Quickly and unpredictably changing moods, fickle
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Militarism
Glorification of the milifRy
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Mired
Stuck, entangled, soiled
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Mores
Customs, manners, morals of a group
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Municipal
Relating to local self government
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Narrative
Story, report, narrative account
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Abate
Reduce or diminish
