Vocabulary Geography Flashcards

1
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Episode

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Scene or incident

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2
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Bombast

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Speech too pompous/pretentious for an occasion

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3
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Superfluous

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Excessive

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4
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Requisite

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Required or necessary

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5
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Apocryphal

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  • False or spurious

- questionable

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Demarcations

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Separation by distinct boundaries

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Idealistic

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(Adj) to pursue high or noble goals

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8
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Laconic

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  • Concise; using few words
  • succinct
  • pithy
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9
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Ascetic

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  • one who dedicates their life to contemplative ideals

- denies their self normal pleasures of life

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10
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Taciturn

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Inclined to silence

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Tempestuous

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Turbulent or tumultuous

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Eminent

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Prominent, distinguishable

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13
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Execrable

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Detestable, abhorrent

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14
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Expediency

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  • Advantageous

- sense of self-interest

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15
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Regency

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Exercises the ruling power during the minority, absence or disability of a sovereign

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16
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Obtuse

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Not quick in perception, feeling or intellect

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Abominable

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Repugnantly hateful; detestable

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18
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Transient

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Not enduring or permanent

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19
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Incredulous

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Skeptical; to show disbelief

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Stolidity

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Not easily stirred; unemotional

21
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Commensurate

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Corresponding in amount or degree

22
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Etiolated

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  • To look sick and pale

- pallid

23
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Intransigence

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Refusing to compromise; inflexibility

24
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Delineate

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  • Depict or outline

- limn

25
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Recast

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Change; modify

26
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Discomposure

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Agitation
Disorder
Perturbation

27
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Resolute

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Determined

Set in opinion and purpose

28
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Futile

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Ineffective

Useless

29
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Plight

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Unfavorable or unfortunate situation

30
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Ineluctable

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Inescapable, certain, inevitable

31
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Invidious

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Calculated to create ill will or resentment

32
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Plangent

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Resounding loudly

33
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Nugatory

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Worthless; trifling

34
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Contentious

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Quarrelsome; characterized by controversy

35
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Erudite

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Characterized by great knowledge

36
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Antediluvian

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Old-fashioned, antiquated

37
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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly, lacking resolution

38
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Jejune

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Uninformed, immature

39
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Imbibement

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  • to drink (alcohol)

- to absorb

40
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Senescence

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To grow old

41
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Acrimonious

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Stinging or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc.

42
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Benignant

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  • Kind, beneficial

- Exerting good influence

43
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Inure

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To ACCUSTOM to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.

44
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Facetious

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Not to be taken literally or seriously

45
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Impertinent

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  • intrusive, insolently rude, uncivil

- not relevant

46
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Subservient

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  • subordinate
  • excessively submissive
  • obsequious
47
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Tangent

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  • digression

- touching

48
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Propagate

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  • to reproduce

- to transmit

49
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Osculate

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To come into close contact or union