Vocab Flashcards

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Becoming less in amount or intensity

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Abate

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Showing humiliation or submissiveness

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Abject

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Depart secretly and hide

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Abscond

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And ability that is been acquired by training

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Acquisition

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In spite of the facts, regardless of the fact; although

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Albeit

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In the open air outside

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Alfresco

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Remote in manner not involved

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Aloof

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Completely surrounding encompassing

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Ambient

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And expression his meaning cannot be determined from its context

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Ambiguity

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Friendly agreeable

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Amiable

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A political theory favoring the abolition of governments

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Anarchism

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The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

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Apathy

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The highest point

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Apex

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Any large body of water studded with islands or the islands collectively themselves

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Archipelago

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To attack someone physically or emotionally

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Assail

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A distinctive but in tangible quality surrounding a person or thing

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Aura

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To prevent avoid turn away

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Avert

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Like an uncle in kindness or indulgence

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Avuncular

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A Very wealthy and powerful businessman

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Baron

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Showy trinkets

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Baubles

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A marshy inlet of a lake river etc. usually stagnant

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Bayou

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To scold severely or angrily

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Berate

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Excessively bold or brash

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Brazen

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Gold or silver in bars or ingots a mass of precious metal

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Bullion

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Sincerity the quality of being honest and straightforward and attitude and speech
Candor
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Determined by chance or impulse or a whim rather than by necessity or reason
Capricious
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To go around encircle
Circumvent
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To compel someone to do something by insistent outcry loud and persistent outcry from many people
Clamor
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Secret covert stealthy
Clandestine
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To take the first step or steps in caring out an action to begin or start
Commence
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To acknowledgedefeat
Concede
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To reveal in trust or confidence
Confide
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To call forth by magic to bring to mind to recall or evoke
Conjure
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Give moral or emotional support to comfort
Console
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A companion or associate, associate with, keep company, a husband or wife, or a ruler
Consort
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Fear resulting from the awareness of danger
Consternation
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A brilliant victory or accomplishment or the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group
Coup
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Old friends close companions
Cronies
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An interest followed with exaggerated zeal a system of religious beliefs and rituals
Cult
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Terminate or abbreviate before it’s intended proper end or it’s full extent
Curtail
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To degrade reduce in quality and value degenerate lower in esteem disgrace
Debase
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Reason by deduction
Deduce
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The time when something ends
Demise
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To attack the reputation of to criticize in a derogatory manner
Denigrate
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To Dethrone remove from office testify
Depose
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A ship abandoned on the high seas neglectful of obligation
Derelict
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Expressing low opinion disparaging, detract
Derogatory
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Caused to turn away from a previous or expected course
Deviate
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A Difference of opinion
Dissent
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Disagreeing with an opinion group or a government rebellious
Dissident
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To entertain distract or cause a detour
Divert
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To deprive of status or authority reduce or dispose of
Divest
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Feebleness of mind due to old age
Dotage
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Infatuated marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
Enamored
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To be a typical example of to represent to exemplify
Epitomize
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Containing or characterized by error
Erroneous
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To obtain by violence threats compulsion or the subjection of another to some necessity
Extort
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The surrender of a fugitive from one state to another
Extradition
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A member of a political party who supports extreme nationalism and a dictator
Fascist
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Involving financial matters
Fiscal
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To startle in sudden activity
Galvanize
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To acquire or deserve by one’s efforts or actions
Garner
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To make perfect or complete
Hone
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To compel to behave in a certain way
Impose
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Permanently in a way that cannot be erased or removed
Indelibly
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Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
Infatuate
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To gain favor with somebody by deliberate effort’s
Ingratiate
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Unlikely to harm or disturb anyone
Innocuous
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Gracefully slender flexible supple
Lithe
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Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree even to engage in lawsuits
Litigious
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A motor truck especially a large one
Lorry
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Producing wealth profitable
Lucrative
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Pretended to be someone or something that you were not
Masquerade
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Not subject to a court ruling because the controversy has not actually arisen or has ended open to argument or debate
Moot
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Someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious beliefs an advocate of the doctor in that nothing either exists or can be known
Nihilist
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Describing a show or pretentious display
Ostentatious
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Unnatural lack of color in the skin
Pallor
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To cater to the tastes and desires of others or exploit their weaknesses
Pander
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As from an altitude or distance
Panoramic
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A model of excellence or perfection of a kind
Paragon
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To cut shave or remove from anything
Pare
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Pertaining to disease study of disease
Pathological