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Week 8 Flashcards

1
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Castigation

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Severe criticism, reproach, or punishment

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Repine

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To be discontent, complain, or fret

To yearn or long deeply for something

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Meteoric

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Like a meteor in speed or sudden (often temporary) brilliance

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Minatory

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Menacing or threatening in nature or aspect

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Endemic

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Native to or characteristic of a certain place or people

Restricted or confined to a specific area or place

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Abrogate

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To abolish, annul, or put asidem usually officially

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Broach

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To mention, suggest, or bring up

To tap, piece, or open up

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8
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Deposition

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The act ofremoving from power

Testimony under oath

The process of depositing, or the state of being deposited

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Accretion

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Growth by gradual addition or buildup

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Deride

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To scorn, mock, jeer, or ridicule

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Revere

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To regard with respect, devotion, deference, and awe

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Boisterous

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Rough and noisy or rowdy; clamorous

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace or infamy dueto shmareful, despicable behavior

Harsh contempt or condemnation

A cause for shame or disgrace

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Sate

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To satisfy or appease (an appetite) fully

To indulge (an appetite) to exces, to glut

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Nascent

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Developing or coming into existence

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Equitable

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Fair and impartial, characterized by showing equity (equity = fairness)

(Note; do not confse with equivocal, meaning ambivalent, undecided)

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Natty

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Smart and trim in dress or appearance (usually of a man: “nattily dressed”)

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Accolade

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An award, praise, or expression of approval

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Seamy

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Sordid, unpleasant, showing the low side of life

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Sedulous

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Diligent or persevering in effort or application

Done or achieved through perseverance

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Efface

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To erase, to rub or wipe out

To conduct oneself inconspicuously, to make oneself ‘invisble’.

Often used in the expression “self-effacing”

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Neologism

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a new word, phrase, or usage

A psychotic symptom involving the creation of new words

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23
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Seminal

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Pertaining to seed, having possibility of future development

Very original and inluencing later works (as a seminal artist or artwork)

24
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Nexus

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A link or connection

A connected group or series

The core, focus, or central point of connection

25
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Tacit

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Expressed without words, unspoken

Implied or indicated but not explicitly expressed

26
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Supine

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Lying on the back or face up

Showing or characterized by lethargy, passivity, or apathetic inactivity, mentally or morally indfferent or lax

27
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Caustic

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Capable of burning, corroding, or eating away at

Cutting, harsh, sarcastic, or severely critical

28
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Nugatory

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Of little value, worth, or importance; trifling or inconsequential

Without force or effectiveness

29
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Disaffect

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To make unhappy or unloyal, to alienate the affection or support of

30
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Bombastic

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Overblown, pompous, inflated, pretentious

31
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Estrange

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To make unfriendly or hostile, keep at a distance

32
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Obstinacy

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Stubbornly sticking to an attitude, opinion, purpose, or course, against argment or persuasion

Difficult to control, subdue, or remedy

33
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Sinewy

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Full of sinews (tendons); tough and stringy or strong

Lean and muscular, strong, forceful, or vigorous

34
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Boor

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A rude or coarse person; someone without manners or sensitivity

A peasant

35
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Occluded

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To obstruct, close up, or block off

To prevent the passage of

36
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Slew

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A large number of quanity of (“a whole slew of problems”)

37
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Continent

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Excerising or marked by self-restraint , especially of the desires

38
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Cessation

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a temporary or final stopping or ceasing

39
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Odium

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The state or quality of being odious (arousing contempt or strong displeasure)

Contempt, dislike, or repugnance

Disgrace or infamy due to reprehensible or hateful acts

40
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Sodden

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Weighted downwith or as if with water, soaked throughly

Dull or expressionless, as from drink

Sluggish or torpid

41
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Surfeit

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  1. An excessive amount or oversupply
  2. Overindulgance (such as in food or drink) , disgust from overindulgence

To feed or supply to surfeit (i.e., satiety, excess, or disgust)

42
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Solvent

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Able to pay debts; not bankrupt

43
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Breach

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The act or result of rupturing, or breaking; rift, fissure

A violation or infraction, a severance of friendly relations

44
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Onerous

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Burdensome or troublesome (onus=burden)

Entailing legal obligations that exceed the benefits

45
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Fervid

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Very, glowing, or burning

Marked by great zeal, feeling, or fervor

46
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Opaque

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Impenetrable to light; not transparent or reflecting light

Hard to understand, so obsure as to be unclear or unintelligible

Dim-witted or mentally slow

47
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Lethargic

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Characterized by or causing lethargy (sluggishness, inacivity) or indifference

48
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Chary

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cautious or wary

Sparing, hesitant to give, accept or expand

49
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Tendentious

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Parisan, marked by a strong point of view

50
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Puerile

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Pertaining to childhood

Childishly foolish or immature, juvenile

51
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Bedizen

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Dress or decorate in a gaudy, ostentatious way

52
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Internecine

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Pertaining to conflict within a group

Mutually destructive

53
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Screed

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A long discourse or piece of writing

A diatribe, an angry speech

54
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Sere

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Dry or withered

55
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Semiotics

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The theory or study of signs and symbols used as elements communication; the study of languages, gestures, even clothing used as communication

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