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10 Cards in this Set
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epitome
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a highly representative example
s: abstract, digest, model, archetype |
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ex officio
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by virtue of holding a position in an office
s: administrative, approve a: illicit, illegitimate |
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ingratiate
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to win someones favor by pleaseing them
s: curry favor, cozy up a: humiliate, mortify oneself |
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interloper
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an intruder
s:intruder, tresspasser, meddler, buttinsky a:local, citizen, native |
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millenium
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a period that begins or ends in a year that is a multiple of 1000
s:chiliad golden age, prosperity, peace a:doomsday, day of judgement |
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permeate
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to enter and spread; to pass through
s:pervade, penetrate, diffuse a:impermeable |
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precipitate
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to make something suddenly
s:impulsive, reckless,impetuous a:wary, cautious, circumpect |
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surmise
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to conclude something, to guess with limited evidence
s:conclusion, deduction, guess, infer, gather, inference a:knowlegde, known, calculation, theory |
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aplomb
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believing in yourself, self confindence
s: levelheadedness a: confusion, embarrassment, abashment |
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bombastic
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wordy, filled with long or protentious word to impress
s:pretentious, inflated, highfalutin, high-flown a:unadorned, plain, dustere |
