English Final Exam Study Cards

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Skimp

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To give less than expected.

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Rummage

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To look for items

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Earmark

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An identifying or distinguishing mark

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Intensive

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the deep, showing great effort; concentrated.

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Data

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Information about something

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Exalt

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To raise in honor, rank, or power

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Lag

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To fail to maintain a desired pace to to keep up; fall or stay behind

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Trait

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A feature or characteristic

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Beacon

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A light or signal that warns and guides; a lighthouse; anything the guides or inspires.

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Chasten

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To punish (in order to bring about improvement in behavior, great bliss or happiness

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Tally

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To count up; to keep score; to make entries for reckoning; to correspond or agree; (n) a total or score.

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Cope

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To struggle successfully against; to prove to be a match for, deal with satisfactory; (n) a long religious cloak; canopy

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Sleuth

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a detective

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Inevitable

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sure to happen, unavoidable

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Compact

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Closely and firmly packed together; small; (v.) to squeeze

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Strident

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Harsh, shrill; unpleasant sounding

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Misapprehension

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A wrong idea, misunderstanding

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Surge

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A powerful forward rush

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Allegiance

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the loyalty or obligation owned to a government, nation, or cause

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Stupefy

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to make stupid, dull; groggy; to surprise or astonish

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Responsive

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answering or replying; reacting readily to requests, suggestions, etc; showing interest.

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Uncouth

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unrefined, crude; awkward or clumsy.

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Pantomime

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(n.) a play or story performed without words by actors using only gestures; (v.) to express in this way

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Prowl

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to roam about stealthy in search of something

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Burly

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(adj.) big strong; muscular

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Alias

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(n.) An assumed name, especially as used to hide one's identity; (adj.) otherwise called

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Valiant

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Possessing or acting with bravery or boldness

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Ambiguous

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(adj.) Not clear; having two or more possible meanings

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Append

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(v.) to attach, ass or tack on as supplement or extra item.

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Sanctuary

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(n.) A sacred or holy place; refuge or protection from capture or punishment; a place of refuge or protection

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Affirm

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To declare to be true, state positively; to confirm

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Amalgamate

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(v.) To unite; to combine elements into a unified whole

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Far- fetched

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(adj.) Strained or improbable ( the sense of not being logical or believable), going far afield from a topic

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Confiscate

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(v.) to sieze by authority; to take and keep

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Epic

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(n.) a long narrative poem (or other literary Composition) about the deeds of heroes; an event or moment of great sweep; (adj.) on a grand scale, vast titanic.

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Replenish

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(v.) to fill again, make good, replace

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Rend

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(v.) to tear to pieces; split violently apart (past tense, rent)

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Stealthy

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(adj.) done in a way so as not to be seen or observed, sneaky, underhanded

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Incalculable

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(adj.) too great to be counted unpredictable, uncertain.

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Berserk

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(adj. adv.) violently and destructively enraged

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Celestial

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(adj.) having to do with the sky or heavens; yielded great biss or happiness

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Empower

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(v.) to give power or authority to; to enable; to permit

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Enumerate

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(v.) to count, to anme one by one; list

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Prosecute

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(v.) to bring before a court of law for trial; to carry out

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Audition

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(n.) a trial hearing for a performer; (v.) to conduct or perform such as hearing.

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Transform

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(v.) to change completely in appearance or form; to make into something else