Vocabulary: Words Flashcards
(101 cards)
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Infirm
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Sick, weak and ailing
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Nascent
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Having recently come into existence
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Steadfast
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Marked by firm determination or resolution
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Askew
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Not in a straight or level position
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Bellicose
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Demonstrating aggression or a willingness to fight
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Languorous
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Listless or lacking energy
1: producing or tending to produce languor
a languorous climate
those hot and languorous southern days
2: full of or characterized by languor
a languorous soak in the tub may be a rare respite for most women
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Insidious
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Working in a hidden and usually harmful way
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Wretched
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Full of misery or of very poor quality
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Warble
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To sing with a succession of changing notes
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Riposte
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Quick or clever reply to criticism
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Quandary
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State of doubt or perplexity
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Shun
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Ostracize
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Perpend
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Reflect on carefully
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Elegy
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Reflective poem
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Eulogy
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Speech about someone who has recently died
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Garner
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To earn or collect
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Garnish
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To decorate or embellish
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Barren
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Producing little or no vegetation
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Cavil
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To quibble or make unnecessary objections
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Chicanery
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Use of trickery or deception
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Fret
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To worry or feel anxious
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Mild
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Gentle and easygoing
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Tamper
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To interfere with something
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Upbeat
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Cheerful and positive
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Tarnish
To dull or destroy the luster of something
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Sprout
To grow and develop
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Luster
Gloss, polish, sheen, glaze, brilliance.
| Enhancement, highlight, embossing, embossment, lustre
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Old wives' tale
Common belief that's not based on fact
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Pique my interest
Something incites curiosity
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Wreak havoc
To inflict devastation
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Upmost
Highest
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Utmost
To the greatest extent or degree
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Flaunt
To show off
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Flout
To ignore or disobey the rules
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Drivel
To talk nonsense
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Floe
A sheet of floating ice
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Pamper
To spoil or indulge
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Pander
To give in to or gratify
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Prima donna
The lead or main female singer in an opera company. Prima donna is commonly used as a negative term for a person who's extremely self-centered and temperamental.
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Bona fide
Genuine, real.
| Without intention to deceive.
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Mannerism
A habitual gesture or way of speaking or behaving.
| Excessive use of a distinctive style in art, literature, or music.
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Muditâ
Joy, specially sympathetic or vicarious joy.
| Also, the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people's well-being.
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Qualm
An uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear, especially about one's own conduct.
A misgiving.
A momentary faint or sick feeling.
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Curtailment
Reducción
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Default
Loss resulting from failure to pay a debt
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Modicum
Moderate or small amount of a thing
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Chagrin
Strong feeling of embarrasment
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Suave
Charming, confident, and elegant (typically used of a man).
| "All the waiters were suave and deferential"
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Fling
Un "pelito", un arroz en bajo. Una relación que no es seria.
a short period of doing enjoyable things that you usually do not do
to throw or move something suddenly and with force:
to say something angrily
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Rambunctious
Full of energy and difficult to control:
rambunctious children
a lively and rambunctious puppy
Sinónimos
boisterous
unruly
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Banter
1: to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner
| She laughed and bantered him a little, remembering too late that she should have been dignified and reserved.
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Penchant
Strong liking: She had a penchant for horror movies and made all of her friends watch them with her.
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Bereft
1a: deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something —usually used with of
both players are instantly bereft of their poise
— A. E. Wier
b: lacking something needed, wanted, or expected —used with of
the book is … completely bereft of an index
— The Times Literary Supplement (London)
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Gossamer
1: a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather
2: something light, delicate, or insubstantial
the gossamer of youth's dreams
— Andrea Parke
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Panache
1: an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet
The palace guard had a panache on his helmet.
2: dash or flamboyance in style and action : VERVE
flashed his … smile and waved with the panache of a big-city mayor
— Joe Morgenstern
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Tuft
1a: a small cluster of elongated flexible outgrowths attached or close together at the base and free at the opposite ends
especially : a growing bunch of grasses or close-set plants
b: a bunch of soft fluffy threads cut off short and used as ornament
2: CLUMP, CLUSTER
3: MOUND
4: any of the projections of yarns drawn through a fabric or making up a fabric so as to produce a surface of raised loops or cut pile
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Chicanery
1: deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : TRICKERY
He wasn't above using chicanery to win votes.
2: a piece of sharp practice (as at law) : TRICK
resorted to political chicaneries
financial chicaneries
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Resplendent
Lat. Resplendentem: brilliant
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Abashed
Feeling ill at ease, self-concious, or ashamed.
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Abridge
To shorten by condesing or rewriting
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Confound
To cause surprise or confusion
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Enthralling
Cpturing interest as if by a spell
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Jocular
Characterized by jokes and good humor
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Overwrought
Deeply agitated, especially from emotion
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Scurrilous
Expressing offensive reproach
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Verbatim
Using exactly the same words
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Amendment
constitution) by parliamentary or constitutional procedure
rights that were granted by amendment of the Constitution
b: an alteration proposed or effected by this process
a constitutional amendment
2: the act of amending something : CORRECTION
3: a material (such as compost or sand) that aids plant growth indirectly by improving the condition of the soil
soil amendments
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Bereavement
The state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone
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Boisterous
1a: noisily turbulent : ROWDY
b: marked by or expressive of exuberance and high spirits
2: STORMY, TUMULTUOUS
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Oneiric
Lat. Oneiros. Dreamy
| of, relating to, or suggestive of dreams
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Verbiage
Definition of verbiage
1: a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content
such a tangled maze of evasive verbiage as a typical party platform
— Marcia Davenport
2: manner of expressing oneself in words : DICTION
sportswriters guarded their verbiage so jealously
— R. A. Sokolov
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Doleful
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1: full of grief : CHEERLESS
a doleful face
2: expressing grief : SAD
a doleful melody
3: causing grief or affliction
a doleful loss
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Inchoate
Being only partly in existence or operation
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Expedient
Something done or used to achieve a particular end usually quickly or temporarily : an expedient action or solution
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Sycophant
a servile self-seeking flatterer
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Tableau
1: a graphic description or representation : PICTURE
winsome tableaux of old-fashioned literary days
— J. D. Hart
2: a striking or artistic grouping : ARRANGEMENT, SCENE
3[short for tableau vivant (from French, literally, living picture)] : a depiction of a scene usually presented on a stage by silent and motionless costumed participants
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Appreciable
A considerable amount
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Appreciative
To feel or show gratitude
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Bouillon
Broth
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Bullion
A mass of gold and silver
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Denounce
Proclaim something or someone as bad
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Renounce
Formally reject or give up something
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Envelop
Wrap up or surround
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Hallow
Honor as holy or be holy
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Historic
Something monumental or of great importance
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Historical
Related to history
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Revue
Theatrical act
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Raucous
Unpleasantly loud and rough
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Unflappable
Undisturbed. Not easily perturbed, excited or upset.
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Thwart
To hinder or prevent
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Fortuitous
Lucky
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Cantakerous
Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
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Admonition
⚠️ Warning.
| Cautionary advice about something imminent
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Eponymous
Having a person's name in the title
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Broach
Open up for discussion
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Hew
Chop or cut
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Liable
To be responsible or accountable
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Libel
False and incendiary statements written about a person
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Spar
Friendly argument
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Spur
Something that causes a reaction
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Ought to be
Should be (British)
