Word List 6 Flashcards
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acquiesce
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to agree; to give in
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altruism
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goodness; selflessness
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anterior
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placed in front
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aperture
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opening, hole
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arcane
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mysterious, secret
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ascetic
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without luxuries
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bellicose
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warlike in manner
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becalmed
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made peaceful or still
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blunderbuss
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old fashioned shotgun
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catharsis
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emotional relief
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caustic
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unkind; bitter; sarcastic
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colloquial
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informal but common speech
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corpulent
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fat
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cupidity
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greed
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demographer
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expert on population statistics
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didactic
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preachy
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dirge
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funeral song
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dither
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to be indecisive
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ebullient
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bubbly
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eschew
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to avoid
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ethos
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values of a culture
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expatriate
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to remove one from their homeland
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fallow
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not plowed; unfertile
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gambol
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to jump or dance playfully
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gargantuan
huge
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hedonist
one who loves physical pleasures
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heretofore
until now
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iconoclast
one who attacks estsab
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indecorum
lack of good manners
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intransigent
stubborn
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lampoon
to ridicule
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maelstorm
giant whirlpool or violent storm
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nebulous
vague
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obsequious
overly submissive
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ordination
a ceremony for initiation of a priest
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parochial
narrow minded
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peccadillo
small crime
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perjure
to lie under oath
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platitude
cliche`
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polemical
deliberately controversial
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retrogress
to go back to an earlier or simpler condition
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rider
addition to a document
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sophomoric
immature
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stasis
state of not moving
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stoke
to stir up and feed fuel
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stratum
one of many layers
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subvert
to overthrow or ruin
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torrid
hot, passionate
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truncate
to shorten by cutting off
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ubiquitous
everywhere at the same time
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upbraid
to criticize harshly
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vacillate
to change back and forth
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workaday
ordinary; common; boring
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zenith
the highest point
