Word List 4 Flashcards
(123 cards)
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Abrupt
A
Sudden
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Accessory
A
Addition
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Addictive
A
Habit-forming
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Adoration
A
Worship
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Affinity
A
Attraction
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Aggregate
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To gather
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Ailment
A
Sickness
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Alibi
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Excuse
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Aloof
A
Distant
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Amenity
A
Something that provides pleasure
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Analogy
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Comparison
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Angular
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Sharp
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Antisocial
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Unfriendly
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Arrogant
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Acting superior
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Attend
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To be present
To take care of
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Authoritarian
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Favoring authority
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Bedridden
A
Unable to move
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Benign
A
Kind
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Bleak
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Depressing
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Blunder
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To make a foolish mistake
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Bounty
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Reward
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Bypass
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A detour
To avoid
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Callous
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Unfeeling, hard
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Compensate
A
To give equal value to
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Compound
To add to
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Conceit
Thinking your great
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Condense
To concentrate
To make shorter
To change from vapor to liquid
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Conform
To do as others do
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Constrain
To limit ones movement
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Convey
To carry
| To send
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Credulous
Gullible, believing everything
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Cyclical
Moving in cycles
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Delinquent
Someone with bad behavior
| Overdue
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Derive
To arrive at by reasoning
| To reduce
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Detrimental
Harmful
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Discord
Disagreement
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Discrepancy
Inconsistency
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Dispirited
Depressed
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Distinction
Difference
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Drawback
Disadvantage
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Dune
Hill of sand
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Dwindle
To decrease
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Ecstasy
Great happiness
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Embitter
To make angry or bitter
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Abode
Home
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Emergence
Coming forward
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Endeavor
Task
| To try
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Erratic
Unsteady
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Ethnic
Having to do with a particular race or population
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Exasperate
To frustrate
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Exertion
A lot of effort
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Exotic
Unusual in an exciting way
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Fallacy
A false idea
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Fickle
Often changing
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Foremost
First highest rank
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Formidable
Strong,intimidating
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Franchise
Right to vote
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immoderation
extreme behavior
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impeach
to accuse a public official of a crime
| to cast doubt on
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implausible
unbelievable
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impregnate
to make pregnant
| to fill
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inclined
favoring a certain point of view
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inconsequential
not important
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indespensible
necessary
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infer
to conclude from the evidence or facts
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insomnia
inability to sleep
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insupportable
impossible to justify
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intrinsic
natural
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jollity
being jolly
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knit
to sew
| to bring together closely
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larceny
stealing
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legacy
inheritence
| lasting result
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liquidate
to destroy
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lucid
easily understood
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mannerism
an affected gesture
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mediator
one who settles differences between people
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mere
insignificant
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minute
very small
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mutual
common
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nontransferable
unable to be given to eachother
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nurture
to nourish
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opportunist
one who takes advantage of opportunitys
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overdrive
beyond normal limits
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patchwork
something made up of unrelated pieces
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perceptive
observant
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persistence
endurence
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pictorial
relating to pictures
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playwright
one who writes plays
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pompous
acting self-important
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precede
to come before
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premise
a statement upon which a conclusion was based
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preside
to lead
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prevelent
widespread
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propagandist
one who spreads false ideas
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proverb
a short saying that expresses an obvious truth
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pushover
one who is easily defeated
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random
without direction
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recede
to retreat
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reclaim
to rescue
| to make land fertile again
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reconcile
to settle
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render
to give
| to perform
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reside
to live in
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retaining
holding in
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rigid
stiff
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servile
acting like a servant
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sober
serious
| not drunk
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sonic
involving sound
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sprout
a young plant
| to begin to grow
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stanza
a section of a poem
111
stimulation
motivation
112
submissive
obedient
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summons
an order to show up
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suspect
to believe
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symmetry
balance
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tedious
boring
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tentative
uncertain
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tyranny
a cruel rule
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uncork
to remove the cork from
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unsolicited
not asked for
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vain
useless
| conceited
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virtue
goodness
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wit
cleverness
