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Week 6 Flashcards

1
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Aggregate

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To gather together

Formed by the collection of smaller parts

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Didactic

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Designed to teach or instruct

Intended for moral education

Excessively given to lecturing or moralizing

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3
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Censure

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To criticize or express disapproval, often formally

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Anarchy

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A state or lawlessness, without government oversight or authority

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Incipient

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Coming into existence or beginning to appear

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6
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Incursion

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An invasion, raid, or hositile entrance of anothers territory

The act of entering

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Engender

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To give rise to, create or cause

To beget or propogate

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Autonomous

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Independent, self governing

Existing or capabale of unctioning independently, without reliance on others

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Equanimity

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Calmness, mental or emotional stability under stress; balance

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Indeterminate

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Vague or uncertain; not precisely fixed or established

Having an infinite number of solutions

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Corrugated

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Drawn or bent into folds or furrows (as in currogated cardboard)

Wrinkled, as in the skin or face

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12
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Unseemly

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Not in accordance with standards of good behavior or taste

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Indigence

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Utter poverty, without comfort

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Sentient

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Conscious, experiencing feeling or sensation

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Esoteric

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Uderstood by or intended only for a select group, often people with specialized knowledge

Confidential

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16
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Chicanery

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Deception through subterfuge or trickery

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17
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Estimable

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Worthy of esteem or admiration

Capable of being estimated

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the usual or proper course, especially in behavior

Deviating from the normal or expected type, atypical

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Crass

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Crude, gross, and unrefined, lacking in discrimination

Excessively materialistic or base

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Ingrate

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an ungrateful person

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Craven

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Cowardly or contemptibly fearful

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the norm, irregularity

Something irregular, peculiar, abnormal, or deviating from the norm

23
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Avid

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Urgently, keenly desirous, the point of greed.

Marked by enthusiasm or voracious interest

24
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Coalesce

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To grow or unite into one mass or body; to fuse

25
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Summarily

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immediately, in a prompt or direct manner; without prior notice

26
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Extenuating

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Lessening or mitigating the seriousness or extent of something

27
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Cryptic

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Having or seeming to have hidden meaning; mysterious or mystifying

Secret or occult; employing or using code or a cipher

28
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Tirade

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An angry, protracted, harshly censorious speech or rant

29
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Damp

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To deaden, hold back, or retard the energy of; stifle, suffocate, restrain

30
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Tout

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To solicit business, votes, etc. in a persistent or annoying way.

To descirbe or advertise boastfully, promote or praise excessively

31
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Fallacious

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Built on unsound logic; containing a fallacy (fallacy = logical mistake)

Misleading or dilusive

32
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Pragmatic

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Practical; dealing in facts or real-world occurrences rather than theory or ideals

33
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Debacle

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An utter disaster, collapse, or failure

A rout or violent downfall

34
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Tribute

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A gift, service, or other demonstration of gratitude, admiration or affection

Evidence or something indicating a praiseworthy quality or characteristic

Payment given or extracted as a sign of submission or in exchange for protection

35
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Inundate

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To cover in water, as in floor or torrential rain

To overwhelm

36
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Turbulence

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Violent commotion or disorder

37
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Inveigle

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To lure, induce, or win over by using flattery

To obtain by flattery or coaxing

38
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Ferment

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  1. To undergo or cause fermentation (such as yogurt or other such foods)
  2. To excite or agitate; to foment

A state of agitation, unrest, or tumult (“the political ferment may lead to revolt”)

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Alacrity

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Cheerful willingness or promptness

40
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Fetid

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Offensive-smelling

41
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Decorous

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Dignified, correct, or proper in manner or conduct

42
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Jabber

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To talk rapidly, incoherantly, or nonsensically

43
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Jibe

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To be in harmony, agree

44
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Gibe

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To jeer, taunt, deride

a mocking or sarcastic remark

45
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Jocular

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Characterized by or given to playful jesting; jolly

46
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Cituperative

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Characterized by tendency to censure, condemn, or verbally abuse

47
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Labile

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Apt or likely to change

48
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Base

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Mean-spirited, contemptible or selfish

Showing a lack of values or ethics

Of inferior value or quality

49
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Pettifogger

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A shifty or unethical lawyer

A person who bickers or quibbles over trivial matters

50
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Confabulate

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Chat, talk casually

To make things up; in psychology, to fill in gaps in one’s memory with “fabulous” stories

51
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Fetter

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Shackle, put in chains, restrict the freedom of

52
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Vaunt

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Brag about

53
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Sophomoric

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Immature, showing lack of judgement

Pretentious and immature at the same time

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