Vocab F Flashcards

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Vestige

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A small part of something that still exists after the rest of it has stopped existing; a trace

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Generic

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shared by,including, of typical of a whole group of things;not specific

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Latitude

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(S) freedom to choose what one does or the way that one does it

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Rarconteur

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A person who is good at telling stories in an interesting and amusing way

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Disclaimer

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To publicly deny knowledge of or responsibility

For something

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Languish

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To be forced to stay somewhere or suffer for a long time

To become weaker or fail to make progress

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Amenity

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A feature that makes a place pleasant comfortable or easy to live in

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Incur

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To acquire something usually undesirable or to bring something upon oneself

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Syllabus

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A list of topics or books that students should study for a particular subject in school or college

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Culminate

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To end with the particular result or at a particular point

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Adage

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A well know phrase expressing the general truth about people or the world

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Vitriolic

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Full of anger and hatred

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Insomnia

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The condition of being unable to sleep

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Hone

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To develop and improve something especially a skill over a period of time

To sharpen

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Wane

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To become weaker or less important

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Atrophy

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To decrease in size from lack of use to wither away

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Exterminate

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To kill all members of a group of people or animals

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Palpable

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Easily noticed by the mind or senses

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Beseech

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To ask for something in an anxious way because one wants or needs it very much to beg

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Obstreperous

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Noisy and difficult to control

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Omnipresent

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Present everywhere

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Bequeath

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To leave something in a will

To leave the result of one’s work, knowledge for other people to use or deal with

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Perverse

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Showing deliberate determination to behave in a way that is wrong unacceptable unreasonable

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Deport

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To force someone to leave a county by legal process

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Capitulate

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To surrender

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Resplendent

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Brightly and impressively colored

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Beneficent

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Showing kindness; generous

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Defame

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To harm someone by saying or writing bad or false things about that person

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Callow

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Young and without experience

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Combustible

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Able to begin burning easily

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Dissemble

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To hide ones real feeling or intentions, Often by pretending to have different ones

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Sovereign

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Without limit; highest

Very effective; excellent

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Hapless

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(Of a person) unfortunate

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Boisterous

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Noisy and full of life and Energy

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Forlorn

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Appearing lonely and unhappy

Not cared for and with no people in it

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Taper

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To become gradually narrower; to narrow

To make it become gradually less in number