Words2 Flashcards

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Acumen

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N. a keen, quick, or accurate knowledge or insight

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Admonish

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To reprove, to express warning or disapproval

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Admonition

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N. a warning or a scolding

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Admonitory

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Adj. expressing warning or approval

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Adroit

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Adj. adept, dexterous

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Maladroit

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Adj clumsy or bungling

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Adulation

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N. an excessive praise, intense adoration

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Adulterate

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V. To reduce purity by combining with other ingredients

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Unadulterated

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Pure

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Adumbrate

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V. To foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily

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Advocate

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V. To argue for or support a case

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Aesthetic

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Adj. dealing with,appreciative of,or responsive to art or the beautiful.

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Aggrandize

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V. To increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater

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Alacrity

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N. eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Alchemy

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N. a magical or wonderful transformation.

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Alloy

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V. To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

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Amalgamate

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V. To combine several elements into a whole

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Ambiguity

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N. uncertainty in meaning.

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Ambivilance

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N. the qualities of having opposing ideas or feelings

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Ameliorate

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V. T make better or more tolerable

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Amenable

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Am. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion

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Anachronism

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N. something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context

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Anathema

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N. a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing.

The precepts of eugenics became almost universally anathema around the world once the horrors of world war 2 began to be revealed.

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Anodyne

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Adj. soothing.
N. something that assuages or allays pain, or comforts

Don’t you agree that nothing is so anodyne as a bubble bath?

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Anomaly
N. deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality
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Antagonize
V. To irritate or cause hostility
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Antipathy
N. aversion,dislike Sam very clearly expresses his antipathy toward certain breakfast foods in the Dr. Seuss classic, green eggs and ham.
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Antipathetic
Adj. showing a strong aversion