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40 Cards in this Set
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Galvanize
(gal-va-nize) |
To coat something.
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Caste
(cast) |
Limitations or priviledges that are transferred by inheritance from one generation to another.
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Imbue
(emb-you) |
To fill (a person) with a strong feeling or opinion. To inspire or thoroughly influence
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Latent
(lay-tent) |
The interval between a stimulus and its response.
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Forays
(four-A's) |
A quick raid or attack.
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Ephemeral
(ah-fem-eral) |
Lasting a short period of time.
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Ubiquitously
(you-bic-quit-us-ly) |
Present or seeming to be present everywhere at the same time; exsisting everywhere <omnipresent
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Debase
(de-bass) |
To reduce in dignity or quality.
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Buoyant
(boy-ent) |
Capable of floating.
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Inalienable
(e-nay-lien-able) |
That which cannot be legally or justly taken away and is not transferable to another.
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Inane
(e-nane) |
Pointless or silly.
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Efficacy
(f-a-ka-see) |
The power to produce effects or the power to produce intended results. Effectiveness.
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Dubious
(dew-bee-us) |
Questionable. Uncertain or unsure.
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Capitulation
(cah-pit-you-lay-tion) |
To surrender, usually after agreeing to certain terms.
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Augment
(aug-ment) |
To make larger in size, number or strength.
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Deleterious
(del-ah-tear-e-us) |
Injurious to health; harmful.
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Seminal
(sem-i-nal) |
Original and goes on to influence future events.
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Parochial
(pe-ro-key-al) |
Having a very limited, narrow, viewpoint, opinion, scope or outlook.
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Expedient
(just like commercial) |
Appropriate to a purpose. Serving to promote one's interest. Useful and worthwhile.
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Caste
(cast) |
Hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation or economic position.
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Transmogrified
(trans-mog-re-fied) |
To transfer or change completely in a grotesque or strange manner.
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Correlates
(cor-re-lates) |
To bring (a thing) into mutual relation (with another thing). To calculate and show the reciprocal relation.
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Buoyant
(boy-ent) |
Very cheerful.
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Forays
(four-A's) |
A venture outside one's customary activity.
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Correlates
(cor-re-lates) |
To bring (a thing) into mutual relation (with another thing). To calculate and show the reciprocal relation.
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Proletariat
(pro-le-tear-e-it) |
Wage earners (workers) who do not have capital or property and must sell their labor to live.
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Benevolence
(ba-nev-o-lence) |
Desire to do a good act out of kindness. A charitable act. A charitable gift.
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Galvanize
(gal-va-nize) |
To startle into sudden activity.
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Latent
(lay-tent) |
Laying hidden and undeveloped. Unrevealed.
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Impropriety
(im-pro-pry-e-tee) |
The quality or conditioning of being improper.
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Terminus
(term-a-nus) |
The end of anything.
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Quintessential
(quint-ah-sential) |
Being or representing the most perfect example of something.
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Imperil
(im-pear-el) |
To put into perile, danger or jeapordy. To endanger.
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Caste
(cast) |
Any class or group that of society that shares common cultural features.
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Delineates
(de-lynn-e-ates) |
To trace the form or outline of. To draw or depict in words. To describe.
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Proscription
(pro-scrip-tion) |
Basically the order to cease something that is unlawful. To point out that a behavior is unlawful. <prohibition, interdiction.
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Strata
(stra-ta) |
Cover, throw over or level.
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Tantamount
(tan-ta-mount) |
Equivalent in value, force, effect or significance. <<That insult was tantamount to a slap in the face.
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Umbrage
(hum-bridge) |
To take offense or find displeasure with. <<To take umbrage at someone's rudeness.
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Putative
(phew-ta-tive) |
Commonly thought of as such. <<The putative monster.
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