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40 Cards in this Set
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OVERWROUGHT
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extremely agitated, hysterical
Eg: His duplicity made me overwrought |
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OVOID
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egg-shaped
Ovoid shapes represent her facial figure |
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PACHYDERM
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thick-skinned animal
Eg: elephant is a well-known pachyderm |
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PAINSTAKING
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showing hard work
Eg: applying to grad schools seriously is a painstaking task |
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PALATABLE
PALATE |
agreeable, pleasing to the taste.
Eg: an palataable opinion a palatable dish roof of the mouth, sense of taste |
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PALEONTOLOGY
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study of prehistoric life
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PALIMPSEST
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parchment use for 2nd time after orginial has been scraped off
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PALL
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grow tiresome
Eg: It is a meddlesome task that can really pall you. |
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PALLET
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small, poor bed
EG: To reduce the cost of our vacations, we decided to rent a hostel rooms with pallets |
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PALLID
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pale, wan
Eg: A pallid complexion is what I have after those dreadful 2 months of preparation for grad |
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PALPITATE
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throb, flutter
Eg: her hearr palpitate in a erratically manner as he approach |
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PALTRY
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insignificant, petty, trifling
Eg: a paltry sum, a paltry excuse |
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PANACEA
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cure-all, remedy for all diseases
Eg: Do you think there is a panacea that mgiht be able to solve our problem and end our sufferings |
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PANACHE
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falir, flamboyance, elegance
Eg: She has a panache and sense of style that is very natural |
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PANDEMONIUM
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hon loan
Eg: on the 1000th's anniversary of Hanoi, pandemonium broke out in the city center |
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PANDER
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cater to the low desire of others
Eg: To pander to the low and cheap popularity |
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PANEGYRIC
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formal praise (tan tung)
Eg: Seriouslly, my contribution was just modest and i don't deserve such panegyric |
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PANTOMIME
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acting without dialouge
(kich cam) |
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PARABLE
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short simple story traching a moral.
Eg: Vietnamese parents like to educate their children by using parable |
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PARAMOUR
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illicit lover
EG: The fact that he has a paramour somewhere around makes him be accused of duplicity |
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PARAPHERNALIA
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equipments
Eg: She likes unpacking her equipments box and have all her paraphernalit scattered for display on the table |
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PARCHED
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extremely dry, very thirsty
Eg: With this voice defection, I tend to beceom really parched after hard task |
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PARIAH
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social outcast
EG: Though he is very talented, to the mass pbulic, he is a pariah |
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PARLANCE
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language, idiom
Eg:Many of the GRE words are just technical parlance that make it very difficult to memorize |
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PARLEY
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conference
EG: The parley between national leaders on CC resulted only a worse stalemate |
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PAROCHIAL
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narrow in outlook, provincial
Eg: This matter is of not parachial concern, it is universal |
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PAROXYSM
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fit or attack of pain,laughter, rage,
Eg: V has helped her to reach the paroxysm of rage that impel her to join him in his revolutionary act |
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PARQUET
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floor maid of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic patter
Eg: Parquet has become a popular design that many people choose when building their house |
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PARRY
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1. block, defect
Eg: to parry an attack 2. avoid Eg: parry a question |
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PARTITION
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divide into parts
Eg: We decided to partition the bed |
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PASTICHE
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imitation of another's style in musical composition or writing
Eg: Many Vietnamese young muscians compose music that is just purely a pastiche to a a foreign one |
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PATENT
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open for the puble to read/obvious
Eg: It is patent that what he did is illegal |
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PATHOS
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tender srorw
Eg: The movie end in pathos that brought us all to tears |
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PATINA
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green crust on old bronze works
Eg: jewelry made from patina, to me, is very attractive |
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PATOIS
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local/provincial dialect
Eg: It's very difficult to understand a patois of a tribe |
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PATRICIAN
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noble, aristocracti
Eg: patrician elegance |
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PATRONIZE
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1. support
2. act superiour towrard 3. be a customer of |
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PAUCITY
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scarcity
Eg: The paucity of customer oreders made them bankrupt |
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PAUPER
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a very poor person
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PECCADILLO
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slight offense
Eg: To a kid, if you're lax on their paccadillo, it will reuin their personality |
