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38 Cards in this Set
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Fop (n)
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an excessively fashion-conscious man
Ex. "he's such a fop that he drives nearly 50 miles just to get his hair cut by Monsieur Louis" |
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Imprecation (n)
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a curse
Ex. "the defiant prisoner continued to hurl imprecations and insults at the guards" |
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Non sequitur (n)
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1. something that does not logically follow
2. a statement that is not connected in a logical or clear way to anything said before it Ex. "We were talking about the new restaurant when she threw in some non sequitur about her dog." |
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Sanguine (adj)
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cheerful; optimistic
Ex. "He is sanguine about the company's future." |
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Bowdlerize (v)
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to remove offensive passages of a play, novel, etc.
Ex: "a bowdlerized version of “Gulliver's Travels” that purportedly makes it unobjectionable for children" |
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Impair (v)
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to weaken; to cause to become worse.
Ex. "Smoking can impair your health." |
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Panegyric (n)
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1. an expression of praise.
2. something (such as a speech or a piece of writing) that praises someone or something. Ex. "wrote a panegyric on the centennial of the Nobel laureate's birth" |
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Quandary (n)
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1. a puzzling situation; a dilemma
2. a situation in which you are confused about what to do Ex. "The unexpected results of the test have created a quandary for researchers." |
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Ebullient (adj)
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enthusiastic
Ex. "she sounded ebullient and happy" |
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Deference (n)
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respect; consideration
Ex. "he addressed her with the deference due to age." |
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Carnal (adj)
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relating to physical appetite, especially sexual
Ex. "carnal desire" |
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Nebulous (adj)
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hazy; vague; uncertain
Ex. "a giant nebulous glow" |
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Rakish (adj)
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dashingly stylish and confident.
2. Having or displaying a dashing, jaunty, or slightly disreputable quality or appearance. Ex. "he had a rakish, debonair look" |
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Elegy (n)
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1. a sad or mournful poem.
2. A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
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Pedantic (adj)
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tending to show off one’s learning
Syn. overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous. Ex. "many of the essays are long, dense, and too pedantic to hold great appeal " "Well you could say it's a deal of nitpicking by pedantic scientists over detail." |
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Antipathy (n)
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an intense dislike.
2. A deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion Ex. "his fundamental antipathy to capitalism" |
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Elucidate (v)
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to make clear; to bring to light
Ex. "work such as theirs will help to elucidate this matter" " in what follows I shall try to elucidate what I believe the problems to be" |
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Imminent (adj)
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likely to happen; threatening.
Ex. "they were in imminent danger of being swept away" |
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Banal (adj)
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common, ordinary.
2. So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring
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Obdurate (adj)
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stubborn; hardheaded.
Ex. "The Egyptian polity, remarkably obdurate for the past quarter of a century and deeply rooted in authoritarian structures established more than 50 years ago, is apparently coming apart at the seams." |
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Peruse (v)
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to read carefully; scrutinize
Ex. "The Tribunal perused the original and read the copies that were made for its use" |
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Bedlam (n)
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a noisy uproar; a scene of wild confusion
Ex. "he station became a scene of bedlam as if often does, with its small confines causing waiting outbound passengers to be in the way of arriving passengers" |
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Affluence (n)
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wealth; richness.
Ex. a sign of our growing affluence. |
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Scurrilous (adj)
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coarsely abusive; vulgar.
"We still have this need to balance the rehabilitation of offenders and the damage to people by scurrilous allegations." |
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Parody (n)
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a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner.
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Sedulous (adj)
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hard working; diligent.
Ex. "he watched himself with the most sedulous care" |
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Onerous (adj)
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burdensome; heavy; hard to endure.
Ex. "he found his duties increasingly onerous." |
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Amoral (adj)
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lacking a sense of right and wrong.
Ex. "an amoral attitude to sex" |
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Eschew (v)
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to keep away from; to avoid; to shun.
Ex. "he appealed to the crowd to eschew violence" |
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Denouement (n)
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an outcome; result.'
Ex. "There's nothing like seeing two improbably beautiful people fall in love, fight, and reach a film's dénouement together" |
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ROOT: clin
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to lean or to bend.
Example : DECLINE, RECLINE, INCLINE, CLIMAX |
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ROOTS: pon and pos
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to put or to place.
Example : COMPONENT, OPPONENT, EXPONENT, POSTPONE Example : JUXTAPOSE, EXPOSE, SUPPOSE, COMPOSE, POSTURE, OPPOSE, PROPOSE, PURPOSE, IMPOSE, POSITION |
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ROOT: hyper
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excessive (in excess).
Example : HYPERACTIVE, HYPERBOLE, HYPERTENSION |
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ROOT: therm
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heat.
Example : THERMAL, ISOTHERM, THERMOS, THERMOMETER, THERMOSTAT, THERMOCOUPLE. |
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PREFIX: com
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with, together.
Example : Coherence , Committee, Communication , Comparative, Compassion, Compensation , Complication, Compulsion. |
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PREFIX: im
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into.
Ex. Import |
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PREFIX: dis
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apart
Example: dismiss, differ, disallow, disperse, dissuade, divide, disconnect, disproportion, disrespect, distemper, disarray |
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PREFIX: de
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down, from, away, to do the opposite, reverse, against. Example: detach, deploy, derange, decrease, deodorize, devoid, deflate, degenerate |