Words in Context Flashcards
(66 cards)
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Perpetual
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- Never ending
- Ocurring repeatedly
- (Plant) blooming and fruiting several times in one season
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Innocuous
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- Not harmful or offensive
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Impending
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- (Important or threatening event) about to happen; forthecoming
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Tentative
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- Not certain or fixed, provisional
- Done without confidence, hesistant
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Provisional
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- Arranged or exisiting for now, may be changed later
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Warrented
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- Justify or neccesitate (course of action)
- Offical affirm or guarentee
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Sanction
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- Threat penalty for disobeying rule or law
- Offical approval for a certain action
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Ameliorate
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- Make (something bad) better
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Postulate
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- Suggest, or assume the fact, or truth of something as a basis of reasoning or belief
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Inconsequential
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- Not important or significant
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Envinced
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- Reveal a quality or feeling; indicate
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Preliminary
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- Preceding, or done in preparation for something fuller or more important
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Contempt
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- Feeling that something or someone is beneath consideration
- Disregarding something we should consider
- The offence of being disobedient to, or disrespectful of a court of law and its officers
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Subsequentely
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- Afterwords
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Conversely
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- Introducing a statement or idea which reverses one that has just been made or referred to
“we’re not going to have enough onions to last the year, while courgette
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Ritochetting
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- Action or bullet reflecting after hitting surfaces at another angle
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Benign
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- Gentle or kind
- Not harmfull to the enviorment
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Annonate
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- Add notes or explanation
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Buttress
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- Stone or brick structure built against a wall to strengthen it
- Defend or support
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Anon
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- Soon or shortly
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Postimpressionist
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- The work or style of a varied group of late 19th-century and early 20th-century artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne
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Ambivlence
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- Mixed feelings
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Tenuous
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- Very weak or slight
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Unobstrutive
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- Not conspicuous or attracting attention
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Conspicuous
1. Clearly visable or attracking attention
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Comprises
1. Consists of; made up of
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Waive
1. Refrain from demanding on or using (a right to claim)
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Concede
1. Finaly admit something is true after having denying it
2. Surrender
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Right square prism
3D box
| A square can be a rectangle, but not always the other way around
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Triangular prism
Light prism that has a square base
| If right, it will look like a slice of cake on its side
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Repudiation
1. Rejection of an idea
2. Denial of the truth or validity of something
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Scrutinize
1. Examine or inspect closely and thoroughly
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Zenith
1. The time in which something is most powerful or successful
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Ideological
1. Based on or relating to a system of ideas and ideals, especially concerning economic or political theory and policy
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Permeate
1. Spread through (something)
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The latter
1. Occurring or situated nearer to the end of something than to the beginning
2. Denoting the second or second mentioned of two people or things:
| 1. "The latter half of 1989"
2. "—they chose the latter option"
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Offset
1. A consideration or amount that diminishes or balances the effect of an opposite one
2. The amount or distance by which something is out of line
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Radical
1. Far-reaching or thorough
2. Advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change
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Impede
1. Delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder
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Individualistic
1. More interested in individual people then the community as a whole
2. Unconventional
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Homogeneous
1. Alike
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Smoulder
1. To burn slowly with smoke but no flame
2. Show or feel barley suppresed anger
3. Exist in a suppresed or concealed state
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Causality
1. The relationship between cause and effect
2. The principal that everything has a cause
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Acquisition
1. An asset or object bought or obtained, typically by a library or museum
2. The learning or developing of a skill, hobby, or quality
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Posit
1. Put forward as a basis for argument
2. Put in position; place
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Excabertate
1. Make something that is already bad worse
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Preclude
1. Make something impossible
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Output
1. The amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry
2. Place where power or information leaves a system
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Contentious
1. Controversial
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Epitomize
1. Perfect example of
2. Give a summary of (written work)
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Faciliate
1. Make (an action or process) easy or easier
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Ray diagram
1.Representation of the possible paths light can take to get from one place to another (often from a source or object to an observer or screen)
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Diurnal
1. Of or during the day
2. Active during the day
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Cepuscural
1. Resembing or related to the twilight
2. Activing during the twilight
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Impervious
1. Not allowing fluid to pass through
2. Unable to be afected by
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Corroboration
1. Evidence which confirms or supports a statement, theory, or finding; confirmation
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Affinity
1. A natural liking for and understanding of someone or something
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Inconceivable
1. Not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable
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Prefiguiring
1. Be an early indication or version of (something)
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Entench
1. Establish (an attitude, habit, or belief) so firmly that change is very difficult or unlikely
2. Establish (a military force) in trenches or other fortified positions
| 1. "Ageism is entrenched in our society"
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Agism
1. Prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of a person's age
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Substatiate
1. Provide evidence to support or prove the truth of
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30-60-90 triangle ratios
⊿
| Left to right
* **Base**: 3√a
* **Height**: a
* **Hippotenus**: 2a
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45-45-90 triangle ratios
⊿
| Left to right
* **Base**: a
* **Height**: a
* **Hippotenus**: a√2
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Formula for x vertex
-b/2a
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Formula for the product of two roots
c/a
