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Semester 1 Vocab Flashcards

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Endoa (v)

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to provide with something freely or naturally

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Calamity (n)

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disaster; major misfortune or loss
[Calamitous (adj)]

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Concurrent (adj)

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occurring at the same time; in agreement

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Solicitous (adj)

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concerned or anxious; meticulously careful

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Entreat (v)

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to plead with; to ask urgently

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Abhorrent (adj)

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causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred; repugnant

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Candor (adj)

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honesty; forthrightness; sincerity
[Candid (adj)]

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Ardent (adj)

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passionate; enthusiatic

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Arduous (adj)

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difficult; strenuous

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Assiduous (adj)

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showing great care, attention, and effort

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Philanthropy (n)

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desire and active effort to help other people; charitable giving
[Philanthropist (n)]

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Eloquence (n)

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speech marked by force, fluency, and persuasiveness
[Eloquent (adj)]

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Advocate (n)

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one who promotes the interests on an individual, group, or cause
[advocate (v)]

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Superfluous (adj)

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more than what is sufficient; unnecessary

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Impotent (adj)

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helpless; powerless

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Idleness (n)

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inactivity; laziness
[idle (adj)]

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Pilgrimage (n)

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a long journey (especially to a sacred place)

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Toil (n)

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long and difficult work
[toil (v)]

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Lucrative (adj)

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profitable; producing wealth

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Querulous (adj)

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habitually complaining; whining

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Wantonly (adv)

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recklessly or carelessly; mercilessly; unjustifiably or without provocation

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Rabid (adj)

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furious; irrationally extreme or fanatical

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Scrupulous (adj)

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having moral integrity; showing careful and strict concern for demands of an unreasonable person or group

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Appease (v)

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to pacify, soothe, or calm; to satisfy or relieve; to yield to the demands of an unreasonable person or group

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Avaricious (adj)
extremely greedy
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Miserly (adj)
cheap; stingy; unwilling to part with money [miser (n)]
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Zealot (n)
fanatic or extremist (often irrational or uncompromising)
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Sordid (adj)
dirty or filthy; immoral or selfish
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Manifest (adj)
evident; obvious; apparent
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Ineradicable (adj)
incapable of being eliminated or removed
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Veneration (n)
great respect; adoration; worship [to venerate (v)]
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Supplication (n)
action of asking (or pleading) for something earnestly or humbly
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Callous (adj)
insensitive; hard-hearted; unfeeling
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Politicize (v)
to cause something to become political in character
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Transcendent (adj)
surpassing the ordinancy; exceptional; above or beyond the normal and material world
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Insidious (adj)
sneaky; treacherous; crafty; proceeding in a gradual, subtle way but with harmful effects
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Enthralled (by) (adj)
captivated (by); charmed (by)
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Curmudgeonly (adj)
cranky; bad-tempered [curmudgeon (n): a grumpy old man]
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Mortified (adj)
embarrassed; humiliated
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Qualms (n)
misgivings; doubts; reservations
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Castigate (v)
to severely criticize or reprimand
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Entrench (v)
to establish solidly
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Condone (v)
to accept, allow, or approve of something
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Expedient (adj)
convenient or practical (but not necessarily right)
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Attenuate (v)
to weaken or reduce
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Subsidize (v)
to support (an organization or activity) financially; to pay part of the cost of producing something to reduce prices for buyer
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Didactic (adj)
instructive or informative (often in a condescending or lecturing way)
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Emphatic (adj)
expressing something forcefully and clearly; demonstrative; insistent (showing emphasis)
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Hedonistic (adj)
pleasure seeking; self-indulgent; devoted to the pursuit of pleasant sensations [hedonist (n): a person who always wants to do what feels good]
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tLampoon (v)
to mock; to satirize; to ridicule
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Congenial (adj)
friendly; agreeable
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Dissuade (from) (v)
to talk (someone) out of (something); to advise (someone) against (doing something)
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Effluent (adj)
wealthy; prosperous
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Surfeit (n)
excess; surplus; overabundance
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Idealism (n)
belief in the world as it should be; optimism (often unrealistic) [idealist (n)] [idealistic (adj)]
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Amalgam (of) (n)
mixture; blend
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Derelict (adj
deserted; abandoned; dilapidated; disrepair; falling apart
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Incongruous (adj)
incompatible; unfitting; put of place
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Decrepit (adj)
deteriorated; unfitting; out of place
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Conflagration (n)
fire; blaze
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Vagabond (n)
wanderer; traveler; explorer
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Squall (n)
tempest; stern
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malevolent (adj)
hateful; evil; spiteful [benevolent (adj): kind; well-meaning; good-hearted]
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Angst (n)
anxiety; uneasiness
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Altruistic (adj)
charitable; humanitarian; philanthropic
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Hubris (n)
excessive pride; overconfidence; arrogance
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Inequity (n)
inequality; unfairness
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vagrant (n)
homeless person; beggar; wanderer; (usually a nuisance)
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Convivial (adj)
fun-loving; social; congenial
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Monomania (n)
obsessive interest in a single thing, person, or idea
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Fatuous (adj)
idiotic; foolish; silly
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Paucity (n)
lack; scarcity
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Peruse (v)
to examine; to look through
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Aesthetic (adj)
pertaining to or having a sense of beauty
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Torse (adj)
brief; short; concise
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Ambivalent (adj)
uncertain; undecided; doubtful; "on the fence"
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Autonomy (n)
independence; freedom; self-determination
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Euphoria (n)
extreme happiness; bliss; ecstasy [euphoric (adj)]
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Precarious (adj)
hazardous; dangerous; perilous
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Beatific (adj)
divinely happy; angelic; euphoric
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Deplore (v)
to disapprove of; to regret strongly
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Futility (n)
uselessness; pointlessness [futile (adj)]
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Emulate (v)
to imitate; to strive; to equal; to excel
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Complacent (adj)
satisfied with oneself; pleased with oneself, often without seeing potential faults (negative connotation) [to be complacent: to feel so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you don't need to try harder]
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Zeitgeist (n)
the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history; the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era
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Latent (adj)
existing, but not yet developed or manifest; hidden or concealed

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