Vocab hit list 147 Flashcards
(147 cards)
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Engender
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cause to exist
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Vitiate
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make impure
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Pacify
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calm someone down
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Dearth
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lack
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Indolence
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lazy
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marred
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damaged or bruised
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Indolent
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lazy
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Supercilious
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haughty; habitually lazy
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Squander
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to spend wastefully or extravagantly
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Ardent
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passionate
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Beset
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to trouble persistently; harass
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Countenance
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appearance- especially the expression of the face; face
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Cursory
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performed with haste and scant attention to detail
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Charisma
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magical attractiveness; rare personal quality
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Demagogue
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a leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions an dprejudices of the populace; rabble-rousing leader
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Placate
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pacify
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Indigenous
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native
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Labyrinth
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maze
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Exacerbate
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make worse
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Incense
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make very angry
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Daunt
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make fearful; discourage
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Rudimentary
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basic
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Credulous
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eager to believe; gullible; disposed to believe too readily
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Lucid
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easy to understand; intelligible; easily understood
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Sacrosanct
sacred
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Docile
easily taught; teachable; read and willing to be taught
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Impartial
fair (neutral); not partial or biased; unprejudiced; not on one's side
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Precedent
an act of instance that may be used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances; earlier example
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Figurative
based on figures of speech; metaphorical
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Reiterate
say again; repeat
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Prudent
careful; provident; careful in regard to one's own interest
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Negligence
carelessness
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Innocuous
harmless
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Lax
Careless; not diligent
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Precipitate
cause to happen abruptly
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Equivocate
say confusing things
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Assiduous
hard working; diligent
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Aptitute
a talent
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Circumspect
cautious
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Metamorphosis
magical change in form
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Substantive
real; actual
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Nepotism
favoritism
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Solicitous
eager and attentive
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Inclement
bad, as in weather; stormy; unmerciful
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Obscure
hard to understand; ambiguous or vague
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Jeopardy
danger
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Nebulous
vague; lacking definite form or limits
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Diverse
varied
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Stratum
layer
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Anarchy
lawlessness
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Acrimonious
harsh; bitter, sharp, ill-natured animosity, especially as it is exhibited in speech or behavior
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Abstruse
hard to understand
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Elusive
difficult to define or describe
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Taciturn
naturally untalkative
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Ephemeral
lasting for a very short time
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Quantitative
having to do with quantity
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Relegate
banish; to send to a place of exile
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Conciliatory
making peace; reconcile
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Concurrent
happening at the same time
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Complicity
participation in wrongdoing
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Lampoon
a broad satirical piece that uses ridicule to attack a person, a group, or an institution; satirize
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Reparation
paying back
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Parochial
narrow in point of views
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Monolithic
massive and unyielding; something suggestive of a large block of stone, as in immovability, massiveness, or uniformity
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Patriarch
male head of the family
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Sensory
having to do with senses
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Qualitative
having to do with quality
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Misanthropic
hating mankind
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Felicity
happiness
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Obsequious
fawning; to show affection
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Equitable
fair; just and impartial
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Expropriate
take property officially
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Noxious
harmful
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Chivalrous
demonstrating the qualities idealized by knighthood, bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallantry toward women
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Apathy
lack of interest or concern
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Cacophony
harsh mixture of sounds
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Exalt
to glorify, praise, or honor
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Poignant
distressing to the mind or feeling; painfully emotional
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Predilection
an attitude of mind that predisposes one to favor something
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Propensity
a tendency
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Sloth
laziness
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Existential
having to do with existence
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Auspicious
favorable
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Heterogeneous
varied
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Fickle
unpredictable
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Indiscreet
lacking discretion (the ability to make responsible decisions)
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Constitute
make up
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Ameliorate
improve
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Consonate
harmonious
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Concord
harmony
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Deleterious
harmful
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Peripatetic
wandering
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Loquacious
talkative
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Propitious
auspicious; marked by favorable signs; presenting favorable circumstances
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Vestige
last trace of something that once existed
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Notorious
famous for something bad
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Polarize
to break up into opposing factions or groupings
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Implement
carry out; to put into practical effect
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Viable
capable of living under favorable conditions
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Arbitrary
random
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Endemic
native
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Vacuous
lacking intelligence
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Provincial
narrow in outlook; limited in perspective
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Chasm
gaping hole; an abyss
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Contrived
labored
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Consecrate
make sacred
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Paternal
fatherly
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Inherent
involved in the constitution or essential character of something
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Gesticulate
make gestures while speaking as for emphasis
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Insatiable
impossible to satisfy
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Blithe
carefree
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Belittle
make to seem little
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Coherent
making sense
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Vitriolic
bitterly scathing (to do harm with); caustic (causing to destroy)
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Apartheid
racial oppression
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Corollary
natural consequence; a result
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Parody
satirical imitation; a literary or artistic work that imitates the style of an author or a work for comic effect
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Idyllic
naturally peaceful
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Ponderous
massive and clumsy; lacking grace or fluency
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Wanton
malicious; unjust
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Secular
having nothing to do with religion
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Recondite
hard to understand
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Inveterate
habitual
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Malleable
easy to shape or being formed
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Martial
warlike; relating to war
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Virtuoso
masterful musician
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Copious
abundant
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Patent
obvious
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Conspicious
obvious
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Amenable
obedient
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Ambulatory
able to move or walk around
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Forsake
abandon
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Hindrance
an obstruct or delay to progress
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Farcical
absurd
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Elliptical
obscure
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Prolific
producing abundant works or results
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Assimilate
absorb
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Celibacy
abstinence from sexual intercourse, especially by reason of religious vows
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Palpable
obvious
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Grandiose
absurdly exaggerated
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Despot
a ruler with absolute power
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Reverberate
echo
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Rogue
scoundrel or rascal
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Pathology
science of diseases
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Frugal
economical
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Autonomous
independent
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Machination
scheming evil activity
