Super Words Flashcards
(109 cards)
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Pretentious
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Cocky, arrogant, conceited
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Euphemism
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Sugar coat something, cushion the blow, to use inoffensive language
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Dejure Law
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written law
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Nepotism
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Favoring family members
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Anecdotal evidence
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Heresay, gossip, rumors
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Empirical evidence
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Proven facts
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Partisan
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Two groups disagree
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Bipartisan
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Two groups agree
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Xenophobia
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A fear of foreigners
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Defacto Law
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Unspoken/written law
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Guerilla Warfare
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Hit and run tricky warfare also known as the poor men’s war
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Patriarchal
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Male-dominated
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Totalitarian
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Gov. has total control over the people
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Jingoism
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Extreme nationalism, you think your country is perfect and has never done anything wrong
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Fascism
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Gov. that has totally control with extreme nationalism
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Demagogue
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Person who appeals to fear and prejudices, fear-mongers
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Affirmative Action
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Enforcing or mandating diversity (law)
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Machiavellian
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Ruthless
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Autonomy
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Independence, self-governing
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Martyr
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Someone who’s willing to sufferer even die for a cause
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Secular
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Non-Religious
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Draconian
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Very severe or harsh
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Bull Market
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People are making a lot of money in the stock market
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Bear Market
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Bad times in the stock market, people are losing money
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Empathy
Put yourself in someone else's shoes, when you can relate to or feel how someone else is feeling
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Theocracy
Religious based gov.
(bible is your constitution)
church and state are combined
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Blue Collar
Manual laborer, works w their hands
| carpenter, mechanic, plumber, etc
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White Collar
Work in an office building, desk job
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Avant Garde
Cutting edge or very modern art
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Misogyny
Hateful towards women, anti-women
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Expatriate
Person who moves out of their country to live in another country
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Malady
Sickness or disease
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Panacea
Remedy or a cure
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Heretic
Person who speaks out against the main belief system
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Jim Crow
Segregation that occurred for many years after slavery
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Uncle Tom
A black man who sucks up to white men
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Muckraker
A reporter who exposes corruption in high places
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Gadfly
Persisten critic
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Nihilistic
Person who doesn't believe in anything
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Agnostic
Believe in a higher power but can't define it
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Laissez Faire
Gov. is hands off, not involved, wishing for less government
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Coup
1. brilliant idea
| 2. short cut for Coup De'atet
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Coup De'etat
military overtake of the gov.
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Anti-Semitism
Anti-Jewish, dislike of Jews
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Appeasement
To give in to avoid conflict, not a compliment
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Entrepreneur
Someone who starts their own business
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Zealot
A fanatic, someone with extreme beliefs, extremist for your cause
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Antebellum
Time period before a war
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Omnipotent
All powerful, invincible
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Collateral damage
Military term for civilians being killed in warfare
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Luddite
Anti-technology
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Proletariat
The working class
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Surreal
dream-like
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Quixotic
You're a dreamer but it never seems to happen, all talk
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Yellow journalism
Putting exciting but unnecessary stories on the news
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Philistine
a slob, uncultured, uncivilized, not a compliment
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Bohemian
unique, different, out of the mainstream
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Automation
when machines replace humans
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Ascetic
someone who lives a very simple life for spiritual reasons
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Cosmopolitan
worldly, sophisticated
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Social Darwinism
survival of the fittest, belief that people are either on the top or a flop
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Apolitical
uninterested w politics
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Anachronism
outdated
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Erudite
someone who's highly educated
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Excommunicate
cut out or kicked out of something
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Martial Law
military law
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Hyperbole
big exaggeration
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Hegemony
control
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Precocious
very advanced
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Belligerent
aggressive or warlike
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Egalitarian
equality
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Indigenous
native to an area, first people to settle in an area
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Oligarchy
a gov by a few people (small group)
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Autocrat
dictatorship or dictator, despot
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Despot
autocrat, dictator`
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Proactive
take charge of the situation
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Precarious
unsafe or dangerous
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Superfluous
unnecessary, excessive
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Exacerbate
to make something worse
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Eclectic
diverse, varied
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Esoteric
specialized language or a language that is difficult to understand
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Ephemeral
short lived, doesn't last for awhile
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Insidious
sly, tricky, slippery`
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Narcissistic
full of yourself, self absorbed, pretentious
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Hedonistic
To be obsessed by pleasure, you play hard and then you play harder, you have no goals other than where is the next party
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Diatribe
A vicious, verbal attack
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Euthanasia
Mercy killing, to put someone out of their misery
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Aberration
An exception to the rule
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Anomaly
Something out of the ordinary
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Renaissance Woman
Good at everything
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Sisyphean
Very difficult, almost impossible task
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Hubris
Arrogance, excessive pride
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Anarchist
People who despise government because all governments do two things badly: serve the wealthy and strip us of our rights
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Quagmire
Tricky or sticky situation
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Antithesis
Opposite of something
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Serendipity
Pleasant surprise
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Bourgeoisie
owning class
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Clandestine
Secret
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Reparation
Payment you give when you lose a war
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Suffragist
Pushing for somebody to get the right to vote
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Red Herring
A distraction
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Infamous
Notorious
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Pontificate
Preachy, a know it all
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Pluralistic
Diversity
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Provincial
Narrow minded, small townish
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Maverick
Out of the box risk taker, adventuresome, willing to shake things up, take new risks
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Nefarious
Wicked or evil
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Epiphany
A sudden realization
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Ubiquitous
Existing everywhere
