Word List 6 Flashcards

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Prerogative

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Privelage or right by virtue of position or rank

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Presentiment

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Premonition

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Profound

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Intense, needing or showing great insight

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Profusely

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Extravagantly, without limitation

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Prowess

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Outstanding skill, courage

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Pusillanimously

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Timidly, in a faint-hearted way

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Pyre

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A pile of wood

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Qua

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In so far as, in the character of, as

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Quicksilver

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Unpredictable, changeable

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Quintessential

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Highly typical

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Rakish

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Appearing fast

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Rectify

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To correct

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Recur

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To happen again, return to mind

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Redoubtable

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Formiddable, commanding respect

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Relevent

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Relating to the matter at hand

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Repeal

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To cancel, withdraw

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Ret

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Prepare for use

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Retrograde

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Tending to revert or backwards

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Roseate

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Rose coloured

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Rue

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Bitterness, Disappointment

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Ruminating

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Thinking deeply about something

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Rut

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Sexual desire of other various mammals

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Sanguine

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Confident, hopeful, optimistic

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Scorned

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Rejected, ignored with contempt

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Sear
Scar, burn mark
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Sedentary
Sitting, Seated... for a period of time
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Seriatim
One after the other
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Shibui
Restrained elegance
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Sojourn
Temporary residence or stay, a visit
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Sop
To dip in any liquid
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Spurious
Not genuine
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Squire
to escort, accompany
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Swain
Suitor
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Swoon
To faint from emotion
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Synoptic
Pertaining to an overall view
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Tat
Pony
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Tenterhooks
Hooks or bent nails or a framework that hold cloth taut for drying
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Terse
Concise
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Tod
A bush
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Traipse
Wearily wander, trudge, walk aimlessly
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Transient
Temporary
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Truculent
Agressive, bellicose, fierce
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Turista
Gastro-intestinal illness afflicting travelling people
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Tête-â-Tête
A private talk
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Umfriend
a person with whom one has had a brief sexual encounter
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Uncanny
Inexplicable, beyond the normal, expected
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Unequivocally
Conclusively, without conditions
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Urchin
A young child who is playful or mischevious
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Usurp
Taking over one's position/power without having the right to do so
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Utterly
Fully, to a totaly extent
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Uxorious
Excessively fond of wife