Words of the Day Flashcards

(24 cards)

1
Q

Comeuppance

A

deserved punishment or fate

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2
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Inaudible

A

unable to be heard

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3
Q

Dismissed

A

order or allow to leave

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4
Q

Transport

A

take or carry from one place to another

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5
Q

Unsubscribe

A

cancel a subscription to a electronic mailing list or online service

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6
Q

Predict

A

say of estimate that something will happen in the future

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7
Q

Remit

A

send money in payment or as a gift receipt of this letter

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8
Q

Climax

A

turning point right before the most intense part of the story

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9
Q

Unreliable narrator

A

when a story’s narrator cant be trusted

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10
Q

Curiosity

A

a strong desire to know or learn something

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11
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Sustenance

A

food and drinks which are considered as a source of strength and nourishment

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12
Q

Confuddled

A

a state of confusion

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13
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Fortifications

A

The process of making something strong

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14
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Beseech

A

To beg for urgency or anxiously

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15
Q

Insolent/Insolence

A

Rude behavior

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16
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Melancholy

A

a feeling of intense sadness

16
Q

Encounter

A

to come upon or meet with

17
Q

Ominous

A

exhibited as omen

18
Q

Foreboding

A

a sense of impending evil or danger

19
Q

Malice

A

To harm or upset people

20
Q

Sinister

A

Making you feel that something bad will happen

21
Q

Offer

A

To present something

22
Q

Emphathy

A

the ability to understand and share the feeling of another

23
Q

Idiom

A

an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words