Ap English Flash Cards

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Allocation

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The act of allocating / to set apart for a particular purpose/ to assign

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Ascetic

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A person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit if complative ideals and practices extreme self denial or self denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.

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Beguile

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To influence by trickery, flattery or to mislead / to charm

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Crass

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Without refinement, delicacy or sensitivity

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Defray

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To bear ir pay all of costs / (expenses)

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Dint

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Force or power / to make a dent.

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Enjoin

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To describe with authority / to direct or order something.

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Envoy

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A diplomatic agent / any acredited messenger or representitive.

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Interloper

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To intrude / thrust oneself into the affairs of others.

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Vicarious

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Preformed, excersied, recived or suffered in place of another / taking the place of another.

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Admonish

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To caoution, advise or counsel against something.

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Akimbo

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With hand on hip, elbow bent outward.

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Lassitude

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Weariness of body or mind from strained, opressive climate / lack of energy.

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Licentious

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Unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral.

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Muse

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To think or meditate in silence.

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Pecuniary

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Of or pertaining to money / of gain or extracted money.

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Plight

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A condition, state, or situation especially an unfortunate or unfavorable.

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Presumptuous

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Unwarrented or impertinently bold or forward.

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Subversive

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An attempt to over throw or cause the destruction of an establishment or legally constitued goverment.

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Vacuous

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Without contents / lacking ideas or itellegence.

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Avocation

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Something one does in addition to a principal occupation / especially for pleasure much like a hobby.

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Capricious

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Subject to led by indicative of caprice or whim.

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Disparity

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Lack of similarity or equlatity; inequality, diffrence

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Efficacy

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Capacity for producing a desired result or effect/ effectiveness.

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Epistle

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A letter, especially a formal / written communication

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Hospice

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A nursing home / place of shelter

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Impetus

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A moving force / impluse / stimulus

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Moribound

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in a dying state / near death

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Reticent

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disposed to be silent or reluctant or restrained.

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Vacillate

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To sway or waver / to be indesisve.

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Akin

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Of kin, related by blood

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Corroborate

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To make certin, confirmed

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Inexorable

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Unyeilding / unaltered / not to be moved

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Insipid

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Without distintive, intersting or stimulating qualities

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Nefarious

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Extremely wicked or villianinous

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Physiognomy

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The face of countance

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Retinue

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A body of retainers in attendence upon important personage.

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Suppliant

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A person who supplicates / petitioner / humble

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Tedium

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The Quality of state of being werisome or irksomeness

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Torrid

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A subject to parching or buring heat, especially the sun.

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Affront

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A personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display.

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Blasé

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Indiffrent or bored with life, unimpressed.

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Cajole

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To persuade by a lattery or promises.

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Choleric

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Extremly irritable or easily argued.

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Encumber

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To impede or hinder.