Test Words 12 Flashcards
(100 cards)
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Ancilliary
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Providing necessary support to primary activities.
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Nebulous
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Hazy
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Exegesis
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Critical explanation or interpretation of a text
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Disparaging
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Derogatory
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Insouciance
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Indifference, Casual lack of concern.
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Irenic
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Aimed at peace
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Bequeathed
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Leave to another person by will
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Annals
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A record of events year by year
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Putative
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Generally considered
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Grandiose
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Impressive, pretensiously so
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Antedated
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Come before in date
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Sclerotic
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Unresponsive; unability to adapt
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Ossified
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Unresponsive; Become rigid or fixed
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Dearth
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Lack
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Lieu
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In the place of
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Stateliness
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A formal impressive quality
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Bravura
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Great Technical Skill shown in performance or activity
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Virility
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Manliness
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Beget
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Cause; bring about
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Palpation
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Method of feeling with the fingers
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Incontrovertible
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Not able to be denied or disputed
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Peruse
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Read something carefully in a thorough way.
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Taxonomy
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The science of classifying, naming orgnisms
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Efficacious
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Effective
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Predicated
Based on something
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Beholden
Owing thanks to someone
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Chastened
Having a restraining or moderating effect on, punish(archaic)
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Approbatory
Praise
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Deign
Do something one considers is beneath one's dignity
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Elusive
Difficult to find, catch or achieve
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Indiscernible
Difficult to see or clearly distinguish
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Artful
Clever or skillful in a cunning way
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Brisk
Active, Energetic, Quicken something
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Jaunt
Quick and short journey
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Nevertheless
In spite of, notwithstanding, all the same
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Spurious
False and Fake
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Limpidity
Clear and easy to understand
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Allusions
An indirect or passing reference
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Commemoration
Recall and show respect for someone
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Evanescent
Quickly fading or dissapearing
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Intrigues
Secret plannings
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Enfeebled
Made feeble or weak
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Unheralded
Not previously annouced or expected
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Tentative
Not certain or fixed
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Elicit
Evoke or draw out from some as reaction.
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Canonical
According to ordered by canon law, authoritative
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Conjugal
The relationship of a married couple
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Expansive
Open around others and willing to talk
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Transgression
Offense
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Disjointed
Lacking a coherant sequence or connection
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Dubious
Hesitating or doubt
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Muddled
Not arranged in order, untidy
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Coherent
Ordered
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Apprehension
Understanding or grasp; anxiety or fear or something bad will happen.
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Affectation
pretentious behavior, studied display of real or pretend feeling
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Flaccid
Soft and limp, not firm, flabby
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Discordant
Disagreeing or incongruous
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Gush
speak or write with exxagerated enthusiasm
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Relish
Great enjoyment
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Feign
Pretend to be affected by
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Hauteur
Proud Haughtiness of manner
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Asperity
Hashness of tone or manner
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Ethereal
extremely light and delicate to make it seem not of this world.
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Prophetic
Accurately Predicting what will happen in the future
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Synoptic
forming general summary or synopsis
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Annex
Add as an extra subordinate part
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Proselytize
convert or attempt to convert ones belief, opinion or religion
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Axiomatic
Self evident and unquestionable
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Endemic
Regularly occuring in a community or area
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Doggedly
In a manner that shows tenacity and grim persistence
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Nascent
Just coming into existence
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Elegy
Serious reflection to lament for the dead
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Vitiate
spoil or impair the quality of
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Pat
a light touch (on subject or physically)
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Bereft
Lacking, Deprived of or lacking
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Succor
Assistance in time of hardship
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Heady
Potent, Intoxicating
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Buck
Oppose, resist
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Ordinances
An authoritative order
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Hubbub
Noise
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Flurry
A number of things happening at the same time (whirl (physical meanin))
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Emendations
Revision or correction of text
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Rapproachement
Establish harmonious relations
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Waning
Weaken, decrease in size
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Forbearance
Patient self control; restraint and tolerance
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Wayside
Side of the road; (fall by the wayside means fail to persist)
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Cessation
Process being brought to an end
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Vacuity
Lack of though/intelligence/empty headedness
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Latitude
Scope for freedom or action of thought
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Indignation
Annoyance at unfair treatment
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Insurmountability
incapable of overcoming, passing over or surmounted
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Subordinated
Lesser degree or importance
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Raillery
Good humored teasing
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Banter
Exchange freindly teasing remarks
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Invective
Insulting
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Sojourners
A temporary resident
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Prolocutor
Chairperson, Presiding officer
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Phelgmatic
Unemotional, Calm Disposition
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Cantankerous
Bad-tempered, argumentative and uncooperative
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Detractor
Sombody who disparages someone or something
