Sentient to Z Rand Flashcards
(127 cards)
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Vogue
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Prevailing fashion or practice
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Volatile
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Tending to vary frequently; fickle
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Talisman
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Charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune
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Uncanny
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Mysterious; strange
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Whimsical
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Fanciful; unpredictable
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Stricture
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Something that restrains; negative criticism
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Soliloquy
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Literary or dramatic speech by one character, not addressed to others
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Staccato
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Marked by abrupt, clear-cut sounds
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Vapid
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Tasteless; dull
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Tome
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Book, usually large and academic
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Stint
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V. to be sparing, n. a period of time spent doing something
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Succor
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Relief; help in time of distress or want
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Sundry
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Various
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Tenet
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Belief; doctrine
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Sinecure
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Well-paying job or office that requires little or no work
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Soporific
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Sleep producing
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Supposition
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The act of assuming to be true or real
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Supersede
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To replace, especially to displace as inferior or antiquated
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Vivisection
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Dissection; surgery; or painful experiments performed on a living animal for the purpose of scientific research
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Subside
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To settle down; grow quiet
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Tirade
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Long, violent speech; verbal assault
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Usury
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Practice of lending money at exorbitant rates
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Substantiate
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To support with proof or evidence
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Whimsy
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Playful or fanciful idea
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Stolid
Having or showing little emotion
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Welter
To wallow or roll; toss about; be in turmoil
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Viscous
Thick, syrupy, and sticky
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Solvent
Able to meet financial obligation
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Tacit
Silently understood; implied
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Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning that has a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion
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Venerate
V. to adore; honor; respect, adj. respected because of age, character, or position
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Viable
Practicable; capable of developing
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Warranted
Adj. justified, v. to attest to the accuracy or quality; justify; grant authorization
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Tangential
Peripheral; digressing
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Spendthrift
N. person who spends money recklessly, adj. wasteful and extravagant
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Vexation
Irritation; annoyance; confusion; puzzlement
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Taxonomy
Science of classification; in biology, the process of classifying organsims in categories
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Untenable
Indefensible
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Terrestrial
Earthly; commonplace
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Wary
Careful; cautious
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Supine
Lying on the back; marked by lethargy
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Treatise
Article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly
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Simile
Comparison of one thing with another using like or as
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Spectrum
Band of colors produced when sunlight passes through a prism; a broad range of related ideas or objects
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Sodden
Thoroughly soaked; saturated
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Turbid
Muddy; opaque; in a state of great confusion
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Sobriety
Seriousness
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Solicitous
Concerned; attentive; eager
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Wistful
Vaguely longing; sadly thoughtful
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Sordid
Filthy; contemptible and corrupt
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Squalor
Filthy, wretched condition
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Veracious
Truthful; accurate
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Stratified
Arranged in layers
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Tractable
Obedient; yielding
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Untoward
Not favorable; troublesome; adverse; unruly
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Somatic
Relating to or affecting the body; corporeal
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Stupefy
To dull the senses of; stun; astonish
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Substantive
Essential; pertaining to the substance
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Servile
Submissive; obedient
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Simian
Apelike; relating to apes
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Skeptic
One who doubts
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Travesty
Parody; exaggerated imitation; caricature
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Torpor
Lethargy; dormancy; sluggishness
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Sentient
Aware; conscious; able to perceive
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Theocracy
Government by priests representing a god
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Turgid
Swollen; bloated; pompous
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Zealot
One who is fanatically devoted to a cause
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Sporadic
Irregular
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Stigma
Mark of disgrace or inferiority
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Verbose
Wordy
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Virtuoso
Someone with masterly skills; expert musician
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Sylvan
Related to the woods or forest
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Visage
Countenance; appearance; aspect
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Timbre
The characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone color
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Tautology
Unnecessary repetition
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Tryst
Agreement between lovers to meet; rendezvous
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Shard
A piece of broken glass or pottery
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Vacuous
Empty; void; lacking intelligence; purposeless
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Truculence
Aggressiveness; ferocity
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Tutelary
Serving as a guardian or protector
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Strut
To swagger; display to impress others
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Suppliant
Beseeching
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Vortex
Whirlpool; whirlwind; center of turbulence
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Vacillate
To waver; oscillate
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Unfeigned
Not false; not made up; genuine
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Stanch
To stop or check the flow of
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Stentorian
Extremely loud
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Transient
Temporary; short-lived; fleeting
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Vendetta
Prolonged feud marked by bitter hostility
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Stultify
To impair or reduce to uselessness
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Specious
Seeming to be logical and sound, but not really so
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Subsume
To include; incorporate
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Supplant
To replace; substitute
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Vaunt
To boast; brag
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Striated
Marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels
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Travail
N. work, especially arduous work; tribulation; anguish, v. to work strenuously
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Tremulous
Trembling; quivering; frugal; timid
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Transgression
Act of trespassing or violating a law or rule
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Undulating
Moving in waves
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Subversive
Intended to undermine or overthrow, especially an established government
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Suffrage
The right to vote
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Trepidation
Fear and anxiety
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Vertigo
Dizziness
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Tumid
Swollen; distended
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Valedictory
Pertaining to a farewell
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Vitiate
To impair the quality of; corrupt morally; make inoperative
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Tout
To promote or praise energetically
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Zealotry
Fanaticism
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Translucent
Partially transparent
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Thespian
An actor or actress
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Strident
Loud; harsh; unpleasantly noisy
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Stipulate
To specify as an essential condition
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Singular
Unique; extraordinary; odd
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Vituperative
Using or containing harsh, abusive censure
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Sextant
Navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude
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Toady
Flatterer; hanger-on; yes-man
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Stygian
Dark and gloomy; hellish
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Tenuous
Weak; insubstantial
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Tortuous
Having many twists and turns; highly complex
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Sidereal
Relating to the stars
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Venal
Bribable; mercenary; corruptible
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Sinuous
Winding; intricate; complex
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Subpoena
Notice ordering someone to appear in court
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Variegated
Varied; marked with different colors
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Supplicant
One who asks humbly and earnestly
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Vindictive
Spiteful; vengeful; unforgiving
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Torque
A turning or twisting force; the moment of a force; the measure of a force's tendency to produce twisting or turning and rotation around an axis
