Vocabulary Flashcards
(102 cards)
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Melancholy
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A feeling of pensive sadness
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Playful
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Pleasantly humorous
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Discursive
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Passing aimlessly from one subject to another
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Poetic
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Possessing the qualities of a poem
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Diminutive
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Very small
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Propriety
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Correct behaviour
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Stridency
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Expressing yourself through aggression and determination
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Leery
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Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
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Languid
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Lacking spirit or liveliness
Very relaxed
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Dialectic
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Contradiction of ideas that determines their interaction
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Repute
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Held in high esteem and honor
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Nuance
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Subtle difference in meaning
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Impute
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Represent
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Onerous
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Burdensome or difficult to endure
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Dissent
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Difference of opinion
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Construe
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Make sense of
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Volition
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Making a choice
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Effusion
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Unrestrained expression of emotion
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Implicit
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Suggested though not directly expressed
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Impetus
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A force that makes something happen
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Quandary
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State of uncertainty in a choice between unfavourable options
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Tumult
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State of commotion, noise and confusion
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Harangue
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Lengthy and aggressive speech
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Facetious
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Treating serious issues with inappropriate humour
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Cataclysmic
Severely destructive
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Posterity
All future generations
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Apartheid
Social policy of racial segregation
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Wanton
Lewd or immoral person
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Macabre
Shockingly repellent, inspiring horror
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Cabalistic
Having a secret or hidden meaning
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Inherent
Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
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Credulity
Tendency to believe readily
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Enigmatical
Not clear to the understanding
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Alacrity
liveliness and eagerness
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Impasse
Situation in which no progress can be made
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Spurious
Plausible but false
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Salacious
Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
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Inadvertently
Without knowledge or intention
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Vindictive
Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge
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Sanctimonious
Excessively or hypocritically pious (religious)
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Prowess
Superior skill learned by study and practice
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Laudable
Worthy of high praise
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Assiduous
Showing great care and perseverance
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Plangent
Loud and resounding, often in a mournful way
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Inordinately
Extremely
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Levity
A manner lacking seriousness
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Reproach
Express criticism towards
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Wistful
Showing pensive sadness
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Supercilious
Having or showing arrogant superiority
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Languid
Lacking spirit or liveliness
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Fervent
Characterised by intense emotion
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Abjectly
In a hopeless resigned manner
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Untenable
Incapable of being defended or justified
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Paucity
Insufficient quantity or number
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Profligate
Unrestrained by convention or morality
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Aberration
State or condition markedly different from the norm
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Callow
Young and inexperienced
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Exorbitance
Extreme excess
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Dolorous
Showing sorrow
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Precarious
Not secure, beset with difficulties
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Frenetic
Fast and energetic in an uncontrolled or wild way
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Censure
Harsh criticism or disapproval
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Rancour
Feeling of deep and bitter anger
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Incense
Make furious
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Pernicious
Exceedingly harmful
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Promulgate
State or announce
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Capitalism
Economic system based on private ownership of assets
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Socialism
Political theory advocating state ownership of industry
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Illustrious
Widely known and esteemed
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Precipitously
Abruptly
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Eschew
Avoid and stay away from deliberately
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Impertinent
Improperly forward or bold
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Unfettered
Not bound or restrained
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Impetus
A force that makes something happen
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Reticence
Being uncommunicative
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Indolent
Disinclined to work
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Pasquinade
Composition that humorously imitates somebody's style
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Superfluous
More than is needed, desired or required
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Prevaricate / Equivocate
Deliberately ambiguous or unclear
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Espouse
Choose and follow a theory
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Anachronistic
Chronologically misplaced
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Insouciance
Casual or lighthearted feeling of unconcern
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Clemency
Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders
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Egregious
Conspicuously and outrageously bad
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Inexorable
Impossible to prevent
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Aberrant
Markedly different from an accepted norm
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Milieu
A person's social environment
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Innocuous
Not injurious to physical or mental health
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Archetypal
Typical of a certain kind of person or thing
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Dualistic
Two contrasting realities, of dual nature (good and evil)
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Contemporaneously
Existing, occurring or originating during the same time
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Trite
Lacking originality or freshness
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Haptics
Stimulating the senes of touch and motion
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Kinesics
Study of body movements and gestures
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Paralinguistics
Aspects of spoken communication that do not involve words (tone, voice, pitch)
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Proxemics
Knowledge dealing with amount of space people feel is necessary between them and others
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Process
Temporal or time orientation, marked by complexity
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Matrix
Multiple chains of communication through one person
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Linear
Unidirectional, one way, irreversible
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Network
Numerous connections from different sources, multiple inputs and outputs
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Conflation
Merging of two or more sets of information
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Pathos / Logos / Ethos
Pathos: Emotions
Logos: Reason / Logic
Ethos: Status / Authority
