Semester 1 Vocabulary

Question 0

Abiding

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To bear patiently, endure, tolerate

Question 1

Flailing

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Waving wildly

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Pitted

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To be matched up

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Implacable

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Impossible to satisfy

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Catharis

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Relieving of strong emotions through art

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Specter

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A visible spirit

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Appalled

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Shocked, overcome with horror

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Arbitrarily

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Decided by a judge

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Inherent

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Permanently existing in someone

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Satire

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The use of irony to ridicule a subject

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Nebulous

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Vague

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Remote

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Distant

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Writhe

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To squirm

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Abhor

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To dislike very much

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Derisive

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the feeling that people express when they criticize and laugh at someone or something in an insulting way

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Caliber

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Worth

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Inure

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Make accustomed to something difficult or painful

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Ascertain

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To find out with certainty

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Preclude

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Attempt to prevent

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Promontory

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Peak near a body of water

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Stolid

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showing little emotion

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Phoenix

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something rising from its destruction

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Pulverized

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reduced into small pieces; demolished

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stratum

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a horizontal layer

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melancholy

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depression of spirit

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proclivities

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inclination or tendency

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odious

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deserving hate

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ravenous

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urgently eager for food, hungry

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stagnant

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not move, not flow

Question 29

centrifuge

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apparatus used for separating materials by the use of centrical force

Question 30

cacaphony

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hard jarring sound

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bestial

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brutal without reason

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tactile

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perceptible by touch

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dictum

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authoritative statement

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profuse

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extravagantly abundant; flowing freely

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insidious

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treacherous, secretly dangerous

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contempt

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scorn, extremely dislike

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perpetual

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to prolong the exsistance of something

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aesthetic

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relating to a sense of beauty

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certitude

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inevitable, certain

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perfunctory

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performing routine with little interest

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rend

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to separated with force

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blanch

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to whiten by removing color

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obscure

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not clear

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oblivion

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forgotten

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pedant

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show off of knowledge

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scythe

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curved tool used for cutting tall grass

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desolate

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abandoned

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prattle

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chatter or babble

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incessant

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unending

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parry

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deflect; block

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mural

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applied to walls surface

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censorious

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severely critical, judgy

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feint

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an attack aimed at one place to distract the enemy of the attack on the real target

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abstracted

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lost in thought

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flourish

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thrive

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luxuriant

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abundant in growth

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saccharine

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sweet or resembling of sugar

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serene

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calm, peaceful, tranquil

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repulse

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driving back; repelling

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sated

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filled; satisfied

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swagger

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bold arrogant strut

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comprehensive

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including all of the relevant details

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senile

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mentally impaired

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sententiously

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in a trite and moralizing way

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lithe

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flexible and graceful (manasi)

Question 66

waver

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show doubt about what to do

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insolence

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bold disrespect

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piety

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good beyond limits of

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Alacrity

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a quick and cheerful readiness to do something

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belligerent

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ready to fight

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conceit

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high opinion of ones own worth

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cynical

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believing people are critical

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despairing

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feel sad without hope

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diligent

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steady, earnest, and energetic effort

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epitaph

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something written that is sad in memory of someone who died

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languid

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showing or having little strength or energy

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legacy

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gift from someone who has died

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lugubrious

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full of sadness