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Vocab 10.10 Flashcards

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Alleviate

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  • To reduce pain ( or bad effect of something) and hence make it more bearable
    To lighten or to reduce
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Subside

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  • To reduce or to go down to a lower level

To become less agitated

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Subsidized

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Financial assistance to help bring down your burden

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Entity

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Something that exist all by itself completely independent of others

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Entirety

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  • Noun of entire

Complete thorough or whole

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Behest

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  • An order or command

Or can be used as a “ as a request or insistence

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Insistence

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To demand or ask for something vehemently (force)

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What does it mean to do something in an Affected manner?
To behave not in your natural self, but in an artificial and simulated manner purely to impress others
To behave in a way that is not genuine or natural

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Demure

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Modest and reserved or shy

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Then what is a

AFFECTED DEMURE - not really shy, but wants to come across as one

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read this carefully

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There is a word for affected demure

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there is.. believe me

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Coy

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  • What does it mean to be coy?
    • Pretending to be shy but wants to come across as one
    • Eg: when I ask her age, she was coy and evasive
    • Not always but used with the connotation of flirtatious
      Second meaning - unwilling to divulge information
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Affected demure -
often comes with flirtatious
But not always

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Evasive

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  • To be intentionally vague or ambiguous
    • To not give an straight forward answer
    • To equivocate
    • To prevaricate
      To qualify
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Cagey

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  • To be very clever
    • To be careful in what you say and how you answer any question
    • To avoid being trapped
    • To be shrewd
      To be crafty
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Crafty

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  • To be skillful but in a underhanded manner
    • To be tricky
    • To be deceptive
      Crafty has negative nuance
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Shrewd

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  • It is a synonym of cagey but has a positive nuance
    • Means clever with a positive connotation
    • Has a keen insight
    • “he is shrewd trader”
    • Astute
    • Sagacious
      Sarwesh is shrewd investor
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Astute

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  • To be mentally sharp
    • To be clever
    • To have keen judgement
      Michael is astute politician
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Sagacious

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  • To be wise
    • To be full of wisdom, knowledge
    • To possess sound judgement
    • Synonyms - shrewd, astute
    • Noun: sagacity
      Sagacity - to be perceptive
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Perceptive

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  • What is the noun of perceptive or what quality does he have?
    • Noun: Perspicacity
    • Because he is perspicacious
      Adjective: Perspicacious
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Words that we learn today have a meaning of strange behavior

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Eccentric

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  • Behaving in a odd manner
    • Having odd mannerism
    • Strange or unusual habits
    • Deviating from norms or conventions
      Noun: eccentricity
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Synonym of eccentricity

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Idiosyncrasy

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  • Peculiar behavior

Adjective: idiosyncratic

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Peculiar
- Synonym of idiosyncratic, eccentric - Noun: peculiarity oddity - peculiarity
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Quirk
- Adjective: quirky | Synonym of idiosyncratic
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The words that we are going to deal with is to do with foul
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Sordid
- Filthy, disgusting, dirty, foul, squalid | - I know all about their sordid affair
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Squalid
- This word has a connotation where the physical sense of the filth is described - Squalid condition of the prison - Squalid condition of the prison - Squalid conditions of slums, shantytowns, favelas Sordid cannot be used in the above context as described
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Ghastly
- Something that causes horror or dread - Something that is frightening - The scene of murder was ghastly - Something that is disgusting, horrible, repugnant Extremely unpleasant
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Console
- There are 2 means to this word - Console: as a verb - to comfort someone in their time of grief, loss, or sadness Consolation: as a noun - to comfort them
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Antonym of console
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Inconsolable
Not able to console
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Another meaning of console
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Console
- A decorative bracket for supporting a shelf | A cabinet for a radio, TV, stereo designed to stand on a floor
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Juxtaposition
- Putting 2 things next to side by side/ next to each other for comparison purposes - Verb: juxtapose - 2 placed side by side
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Comprehensive
- To be complete, to be thorough, to be detailed, to be all-inclusive, to be all encompassing To be exhaustive
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Exhaustive
- In this context just a synonym of comprehensive - The fumes that comes out of the muffler - To use up, to consume all the resources Exhausted = tired
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Encompass
To surround, to enclose, to comprise, to include
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Flaunt
- To show-off, to exhibit something haughty (arrogant) - To exhibit haughty, to exhibit ostentatiously He likes to flaunt his knowledge
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Flout
to show complete disregard for something you feel it is beneath you to show contempt
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Contempt
- To show utter disrespect - Eg: to flout the law, to flout the rules and regulations If you don’t shut up, you'll be held in contempt of the court
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Fallible
- Capable of making a mistake or error | Sorry, everyone is fallible
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Antonym would be Infallible Eg: no one is infallible, everyone is fallible
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All these words means things done in a very sneaky way
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Furtive
- Something done in a sneaky manner - Something that is done in secret - Something that is done in stealth - secrecy - Adverb: stealthy - Surreptitious To do something in a under handed manner
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A covert operation must employ an element of stealth
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Covert
- A covert operation is one that must be carried out in concealed manner/ hidden manner/ secret manner Covert operation - it must be done clandestinely
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Clandestine
- Concealed or kept secret | "MUM is the word"
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Hardy
- Describing somebody as hardy - Someone who is rugged and strong - Someone who is courageous / brave - Someone is intrepid - to means to bold, brave - To be daring - To be audacious - Hardy is generally used not to describe a person, Sometimes a plant - a vegetation is described as being hardy, because it can survive harsh conditions
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Audacious
- Bold, fearless, brave, daring, courageous, intrepid - Noun: audacity In most cases carries a positive or negative connotation
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Temerity
- To behave in bold or audacious manner but in a foolish way | To have foolhardy disregard of danger or appropriateness or propriety
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Propriety
- Noun of proper answer - Your behavior showed propriety - State of being proper or correct - Proprietorship - ownership - Proprietor Proprietary - generally used as - proprietary right are legal rights bestowed or conferred on an owner
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Hibernate
- To be inactive - To be dormant - Literally means, to pass the winter in a state of inactivity Noun: Hibernation
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Dormant
- To be inactive - To be in state of inactivity Eg: account being dormant - bank account dormant
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Hiatus
- Break - It’s a gap in an activity or work - It is an interruption - A pause - A period of hibernation - Hiatus is generally used with a short duration Hibernation is used with a much longer time
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Detriment
- Anything that causes harm, injury, damage or loss is said to be a detriment Adjective: detrimental
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Now we'll see some synonyms of detrimental
Harmful, injurious, deleterious,
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Injurious
- Something that is capable of causing an injury | Smoking is injurious to one's health
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Deleterious
- Having a harmful effect - Causes injury Detrimental
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Reprove
- Noun: reproof - To show disapproval - To find fault with something - To scold someone - To rebuke - To show disapprobation - Adjective: reprovable Adverb: reprovingly
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Approbation(51)
- Just a approval or a praise - Praise Commendation
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Commend (51)
- If you are commending someone, you are just showing approval to them
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The words now means - you are not too keen in what the person is doing
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Knock
- To find fault with something - To criticize - To belittle - To deride - making fun of someone - To make fun of someone - To ridicule someone To look down on someone
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Noun of deride | Derision
- Adjective: derisive - Adverb: derisively She spoke derisively
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Pathos
- Always spelled with an 's' - Something that arouses or evokes or causes a feeling of pity, sympathy, compassion, tenderness or sorrow Anything that moves you - it is full of pathos - evokes a lot of feelings
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Has a root of pathy-
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Ethos
- Values/beliefs that a group of people/culture/movement/ or an organization lives by or believes in Eg: our company has made environmental awareness part of its business ethos
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Creed
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Antipathy
- Anti - against - Pathy - feelings - Feeling of dislike - Feeling of aversion Feeling of hatred
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Aversion
- Strong dislike for something - Idiom: "averse to" travelling Not averse for
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Apathy
- When "a" is prefixed, it means "not" - Not + feelings - When you have no feelings for something or someone - To show no emotions or interest - Adjective: apathetic Adverb: apathetically
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Indifference
Synonym of apathy

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