Majortests Mat Analogy Set #1 Flashcards

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Puccini

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Italian operatic composer.

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Opera

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an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.

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Cellini

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Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and engraver, noted also for his autobiography

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Inception

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beginning; start; commencement.

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Scintillating

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animated; vivacious; effervescent

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Boisterous

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rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained:

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Elucidate

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to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain:

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Shard

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a fragment, especially of broken earthenware.

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Conifer

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any of numerous, chiefly evergreen trees or shrubs of the class Coniferinae (or group Coniferales), including the pine, fir, spruce, and other cone-bearing trees and shrubs, and also the yews and their allies that bear drupelike seeds.

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Prairie

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an extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in the Mississippi valley, characterized by a highly fertile soil and originally covered with coarse grasses, and merging into drier plateaus in the west.

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Taiga

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the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.

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Penury

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extreme poverty; destitution.

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Sustenance

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means of sustaining life; nourishment.

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Arable

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capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage

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Navigable

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deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships

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Attenuate

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to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value

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Dampen

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to make damp; moisten

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Slag

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Also called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore.

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Furnace

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a structure or apparatus in which heat may be generated, as for heating houses, smelting ores, or producing steam.