World lit. Vocab Flashcards
(133 cards)
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To prove to be false or erroneous as an opinion or charge
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Refute
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A written declaration upon an oath made before an authorized official
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Affidavit
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Lacking some element or characteristic
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Deficient
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A person who questions an interrogator
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Interlocutor
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Giving forth utterances as if by authority
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Oracular
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Strongly emotional intense or passionate
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Vehement
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Of little or no weight or worth
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Frivolous
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Contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech
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Insolence
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Fervor for a person cause or object eager desire or endeavor enthusiastic diligence ardor
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Zeal
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Full of, characterized by, or showing malice, malevolent, spiteful
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Malicious
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To deprive a person of a right of citizenship mainly the right to vote
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Disenfranchise
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To pray or petition humbly
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Supplicate
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The willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation before a competent tribunal upon a point material to a legal inquiry
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Perjury
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Deficient in veneration or respect
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Irreverent
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To give urgent advice recommendation or warnings
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Exhort
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Not within proper or reasonable limits
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Inordinate
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To criticize in a derogatory manner
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Denigrate
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To speak abusively
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Revile
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reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations
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Piety
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Pleasing in appearance, attractive
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Comely
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Characterized by lack of order or planning
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Haphazard
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To move or act with haste
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Hasten
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To inprision
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Incarcerate
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A seeking for truth info or knowledge
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Inquiry
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To deprive something of value or effectiveness
Nullify
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To find fault with or reproach severely
Upbraid
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Agreeable suitable pleasing in nature
Congenial
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Concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading
Deceit
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To establish in the favor or good graces of someone especially by effort
Ingratiate
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Being in that place over there
Yonder
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A traveler especially on foot
Wayfarer
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Any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration
Blight
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The means by which atonement or reparation is made
Expiation
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Authority rightful status independence or prerogative
Sovereignty
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A person who is habitually inactive or lazy
Sluggard
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To stop as an obstacle and refuse to proceed or to do something specified
Balk
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A false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something
Calumny
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To plan with ingenuity, devise, invent
Contrive
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Soothsayer or prophet
Augur
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A disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations
Quarrel
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A traveler, especially on foot
Wayfarer
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Any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration
Blight
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The means by which atonement or reparation is made
Expiation
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Authority, rightful status, independence, or prerogative
Sovereignty
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A person who is habitually inactive or lazy
Sluggard
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To stop as at an obstacle and refuse to proceed or to do something specified
Balk
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A false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something
Calumny
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To plan with ingenuity; devise; invent
Contrive
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Soothsayer or prophet
Augur
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A disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations
Quarrel
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a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed by to)
Aversion
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outward aspect or appearance; the slightest appearance or trace
Semblance
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to attribute or ascribe
Impute
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to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure
Reproach
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to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation
Habituated
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abundance of money, property, and other material goods; riches; wealth.
Affluence
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to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate
Perturb
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to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does
Portend
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high in station, rank, or repute; prominent; distinguished
Eminent
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to confuse or puzzle completely; perplex
bewilder
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utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched
abject
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haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression
supercilious
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disturbed, as in one's composure or self-possession; perturbed; ruffled
disconcerted
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to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse
confound
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a disposition or bent, especially of the mind or will; a liking or preference
inclination
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anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause)
solicitous
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to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc,; toughen or harden, habituate (usually followed by to)
Inure
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to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, especially by some wound to pride; to excite (interest, curiosity, etc.)
pique
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a mechanical contrivance; gadget; device
Contraption
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subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, off notion or unpredictable change; erratic
capricious
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to cast (onself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration
prostrate
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an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women
cad
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dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
decorum
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a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling
vocation
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to free or release from entanglement; disengage
extricate
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to dry thoroughly; dry up
desiccate
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a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief
respite
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emitting rays of light; shining or bright
Radiant
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high pitched and piercing in sound quality
Shrill
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To strike or blot out, erase, or obliterate
Expunge
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morally ignoble or base, vile
Sordid
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characterized by a hearty joyous humor or a spirit of good fellowship
Jovial
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pretentious or conspicuous show of wealth or importance, a display intended to impress others
Ostentation
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to praise or extol
Exalt
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mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner
Lugubrious
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at the outer or lower limits, minimal for requirements, almost insufficient
Marginal
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immoderate in indulgence of appetite or passion
intemperate
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to pass or move over, along, or through
traverse
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a decline of mental faculties, especially as associated with old age; senility
dotage
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accustomed; used (usually followed by an infinitive)
wont
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the arrangement and union of the constituent parts of anything; constitution; structure
contexture
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firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty
obstinate
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mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium
equanimity
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generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness
magnanimous
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sluggish inactivity or inertia
torpor
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chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent:
paramount
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reserved or reticent; indifferent; disinterested:
aloof
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constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task;persevering; industrious; attentive:
assiduous
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pertaining to, consisting of, or representing the earth
terrestrial
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having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense;shrewd:
sagacious
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any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic ordeepseated
malady
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lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow:
languid
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to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
enervate
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to linger over, emphasize, or ponder in thought, speech, or writing(often followed by on or upon):
dwell
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an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
subterfuge
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the state of being behind or late, especially in the fulfillment of a duty,promise, obligation, or the like:
arrears
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any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
interdict
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a sheath for a sword or the like.
scabbard
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a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew.
harridan
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a recess or small room adjacent to or opening out of a room:
alcove
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a building or area containing many tenants in limited or crowded quarters.
warren
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to treat tenderly; nurse or tend indulgently; pamper:
coddle
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to mend, as torn clothing, with rows of stitches, sometimes by crossing and interweaving rows to span a gap.
darn
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a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior.
convent
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lack of energy or vitality; sluggishness.
languor
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a hypothetical tendency for the universe to attain a state of maximum homogeneity in which all matter is at a uniform temperature (heat death)
entropy
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the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.
cosmos
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to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
dissipate
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a Euclidean space of dimension greater than three.
hyperspace
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an indefinitely long period of time; age.
eon
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an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard:
lapse
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to spread or scatter widely or thinly;
diffuse
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the point in the orbit of a planet or a comet at which it is farthest from the sun.
aphelion
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a direct or exact opposite.
antipode
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inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd:
Lascivious
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given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed
Rapacious
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a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money
Miser
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wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober
Prudent
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extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess
Parsimony
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the aggregate of one's property
Patrimony
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the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn
Contempt
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to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right
Usurp
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not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances
Malcontent
