Semester Vocab Flashcards
(80 cards)
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Abrogate
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to abolish by formal action
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Acquiesce
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to give in / agree
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Acuity
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Sharpness of perception or mind
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Affable
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Friendly / agreeable
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Alacrity
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Eagerness or enthusiasm
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Ambiguous
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Unclear / uncertain
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Ameliorate
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To improve
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Anarchy
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Lack of government / chaos
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Apathy
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Lack of emotion / interest
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Apprehensive
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Fearful / worried
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Assuage
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To reduce / relieve
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Astute
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Clever / perceptive
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Atrophy
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To waste away from lack of use
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Augment
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To add to / increase
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Austere
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Severe / strict
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Autonomy
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Self-rule / independence
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Avarice
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Greed
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Banal
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Commonplace / dull / ordinary
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Bastion
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A stronghold / fort
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Benign
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Kindly / good natured / harmless
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Blasphemy
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Irreverent or negative talk about religion
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Candor
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Frankness / honesty
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Capricious
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Whimsical / unpredictable
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Collaborate
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To cooperate / work together
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Complacent
Smug / self-satisfied / unconcerned
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Compliance
Conforming to a request or demand
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Conciliate
To soothe anger
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Congregation
A crowd of people / an assembly of people
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Credulous
Gullible / ready to believe without proof
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Deference
A show of respect
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Denounce
To speak publicly against
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Depravity
Corruption / wickedness
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Derision
Contempt / ridicule
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Desecrate
To disrespect or deface something sacred
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Didactic
Intended to teach / instructive / moralizing
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Diffident
Shy / lacking confidence
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Discern
To distinguish one thing from another
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Disparage
To speak poorly of / mock
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Disparity
Inequality
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Dissent
Disagreement / to oppose or disagree
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Dissonance
Lack of agreement / harmony
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Dogmatic
stubbornly opinionated, inflexible
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Drone
A continuous humming sound, to talk on and on
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Dubious
Doubtful, questionable
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eccentric
odd or out of the ordinary, quirky
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Elucidate
to explain; make clear
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Enigma
Enigma
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Euphonious
Melodious, pleasant sounding
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Expedient
Advantageous / covenant
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Expedite
To quicken or accelerate
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Extol
To praise
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Fastidious
Meticulous, difficult to please
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Flagrant
Glaringly wrong, obviously faulty
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Futile
Unsuccessful, pointless
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Guile
Cunning, deceitfulness
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Gullible
Overly trusting
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Heretic
Someone who rejects accepted ideas, non-believer
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Immutable
Unchanging, permanent
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Incessant
Non-stop
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Indifferent
Having no preference, unconcerned
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Indolence
Laziness; apathy
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Innocuous
Harmless; Insignificant
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Innovate
to transform or modernize
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Insipid
Bland; boring
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Jubilation
Joy; exultation
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Laud
to praise
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Lobbyist
Person who seeks to influence politics
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Magnanimous
Generous; noble
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Mercurial
rapidly changing; temperamental
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Novel
New; interesting
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Nascent
just beginning; emerging
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Obscure
to conceal or complicate
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Obfuscate
to render unintelligible or confusing
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Parsimony
Stinginess
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Paucity
Scarcity
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Pedestrian
Commonplace; ordinary
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Perfunctory
Careless; showing little effort
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Peripheral
off to the side; unimportant
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Petulant
rude; irritable
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Philanthropist
Someone who benefits mankind
