Freshman English Flash Cards

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Partisan

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One who exhibits extreme or people blind allegiance to a group derivatives.

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pernicious

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Very destructive or harmful, deadly, baneful, detrimental.

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covert

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seceret, concealed, clandestiney, furtive, stealthy detrimental.

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Portentous

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Momentous, having great significance derivatives.

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Gall

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Bile, an irritant, impudence, something bitter derivatives.

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According

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Harmonious, agreeable

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Wanton

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Immoral, lewd, licentious.

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Virtuous

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Having excellent morals, righteous, ethical, noble

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Disparage

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To degrade, to speak of something in a derogatory manner, to belittle

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Profane

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Showing contempt toward sacred things; to violate, desarateor defame

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Entreat

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A plea or earnest request, to appeal

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Utter

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To express by speaking, pouncing or carried to the utmost point or highest degree

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Idolatry

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Extreme admiration, Love, or reverence for something or someone

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Repose

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A state of rest, sleep or tranquility

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Air

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To broadcast or televise; to make public

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Baleful

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Having a harmful or destructive effect, menacing or sinister

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Intercede

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To intervene on behalf of another, to ac as a meoliator or arbitrate.

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Forsake

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To quit or to leave entirely; to depart or withdraw from.

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Chide

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To voice disapprove; to scold or chasetise.

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Discord

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Lack of agreement.

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Submissive

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Yield or surrending oneself to the will of another.

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Feign

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To give a false appearance, to throw a fake punch.

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Dexterous

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Skillful and active with the hands, skill or cleverness in

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Beguile

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To persuade with charm

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Calamity

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A serious event causing distress or misfortune

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Perjury

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False testimony under oath; bearing false witness

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Ascend

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To move up ward

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Vextion

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Discomfort or distress; Annoyance

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Inundate

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To cover with, to over flow

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Assuaged

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To smooth, calm or molility

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Chattels

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Any artical or tangible property other than land, Buildings etc. Move able artical of personal property

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Dictum

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Anauthoritative proclomation; Judical assertion, A saying, Maximum

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Tacitum

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Researved in speak; reluctant to join in conversation

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Illcitly

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Not allowed or approved by common custom rule or standard

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Indugenous

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Orginating in and characteristics of a particular region or country, Native

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Expounding

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To explain; Interpret

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Erratic

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Having no certain or define course, wondering, Not fixed

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Contemptuous

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Showing or expressing disadlisen, Disrespectful

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Auspicious

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Favored by fortune, Properous

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Abominable

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Repugnantly hateful; detestable;loathsome

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Benign

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Gental, Kindness

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Magisterial

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having or showing great authority

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Benvolence

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Desire to do good to others, good will, Charitable

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Ensuing

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To follow in order, come afterward, Exspecially inmmediate succession

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Prowess

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Excetional valor, bravory or ability

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Meditive

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Of, involving or absorbed in meditation or considered thought

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Unfathmable

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Difficult or impossible to understand, Incomrehensive

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Accost

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To approch and speak to (someone) often in an angry, Aggressive or Wanted way

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Innate

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Inborn, Natual

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Altercation

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A noisy argument, Especially in public

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Appalling

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Causing shock or dismay, Horrific

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Elusive

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Difficult to find, Catch, or arachieve, difficult to remember or recall

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Resilient

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Able to withstand or recover quickly

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Reverent

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Feeling or showing deep and solemn (serious or sincere) respect

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Futillity

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Pointless or Uselessness

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Prominent

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Important; Famous

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Countenance

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A persons face or facial expression

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Complacently

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Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or ones achievements

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Molilified

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To appease the anger or anxiety of (someone); Reduce the severity of.

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Exodus

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A mass departure of people, esecially emigrants

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Expunge

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To erase or remove completly

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Impudent

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Not showing disrespect for another person, Imperitient

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Lota

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An extremely small amount

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Cynical

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Belief that people are motivated by self-interest, distrustful of human sincerity or integrity

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Fatalistic

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Belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable

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Ruefully

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In a way that expresses sorrow or regret

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Sordid

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Morally ignoble (despicable) or vile

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Squalid

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Dirty or deteriorated, especially from poverty or lack of care

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Apprehension

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Anticipation of misfortune; Suspicion or fear of future trouble

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Obscure

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Not clear or plain, ambiguous, vague or uncertain

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Furitive

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taken, used etc. Surreptitiously or by stealth; secret

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Demise

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The end of existence or activity; termination

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Veneer

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A thin layer of wood or other material that is attached to the surface of something in order to make it look authentic

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Eccentric

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Uncoventional and slightly strange

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Cease

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To stop; Discontinue

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Fret

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To feel or express worry, Annoyance, Discontent

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Reprimand

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A server reproof or rebuke

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Notoriety

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The condition of being famous

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Purtoin

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To take something that belongs to someone else