Vocab List 5 Flashcards
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Lugubrious
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excessively mournful
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Acumen
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Shrewdness shown by keen insight
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Incognito
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Without revealing one’s identity
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Orthography
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A method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
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Chromosome
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A threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order
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Lexicon
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A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
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Nihilism
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Complete denial of all established authority and institutions
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Totalitarian
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Characterized by a government in which political authority excersized absolute and centralized control
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Unctuous
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Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
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Winnow
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The act of separating grain from chaff
