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24 Cards in this Set
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PARADOX
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n.
a situation or statement that contradict itself |
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PARANOIA
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n.
a mental illness that distorts a person's perception of what is real |
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PARRY
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v.
blocking or evading a movement or something verbalize (question, issue, answering), evade |
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PENITENT
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v/n.
deeply sorry, ashamed, and full of remorse. (Roman Catholic Church) person who repents for wrong doing. |
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PARTITION
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v/n.
to separate into sections (physical or non physical space). The division of something into parts, a physical barrier between space. |
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PERIPHERY
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n.
outside the boundary of something, the outside edge |
ngoại biên, ngoại vi, chu vi
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PERMEATE
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v.
not only pass through but also spread to fill an entire area |
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PETULANT
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adj.
easily irritated or annoyed. unreasonable or unjustified |
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PERVERSE
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adj.
stubborn. perverted. oppose and contradict. resistant to guidance or discipline. |
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PHILANTHROPY
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n.
desire to help people or the actual deeds (charity, volunteer...) a person does to benefit mankind |
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PIED
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adj.
multicolor, fully jumbled, patches or blotches of two or more colors |
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PHOTOGENIC
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adj.
looking attractive in photographs |
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PILLAGE
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v/n.
take everything value from place that you've conquered as spoils. anyone who takes what's not their. |
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PIQUE
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n/v.
a sudden outburst of anger. cause to feel resentment from wounded pride. arouse, stimulate, or excite your curiosity or interest. |
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PORCINE
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adj.
describing anything or anyone resembling a pig |
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PLIGHT
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n/v.
a unfotune situation that's hard, dangerous,difficult to get out of, predicament, quandary. pledge, promise solemnly and formally. |
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POTENTATE
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n.
a powerful person |
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PRECARIOUS
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adj.
When something is unstable, dangerous or difficult and likely to get worse, unstable, unsafe, insecure, fraught with danger |
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PROCRASTINATE
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v.
putting off doing something until a future time, postpone or delay needlessly |
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PROPULSIVE
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adj.
describes something that has the power to drive something forward, tending to or capable of propelling |
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PROWESS
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n.
exceptional skill or ability and bravery |
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QUANDARY
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n.
uncertain what to do cuz all of your options seem unpleasant, dilemma, perplexity. plight, predicament. |
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QUIRK
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n.
a strange attitude or habit |
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QUIXOTIC
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adj.
for someone or something that is romantic and unrealistic, or possessed by almost impossible hope |
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