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23 Cards in this Set
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2.conducive
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contributing to,leeding to.
the education is conducive to better life |
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14.extract
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to pull out/to draw out.
the dentist extracted my bad tooth |
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10.abstain
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not to do something by choice/not to vote.
Muslims abstain from eating pork. |
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13.disraught
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crazy with worry.
she was distraugh by the death of her husband. |
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22.transcend
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to comeover/to go above limits.
to transcend the challenge of the college couses you need to workd hard. |
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20.circumspect
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careful/coution/considering result of action.
I was cercumspect last night when I was walking in the deserted street. |
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17.inadvertently
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unintentionaly/by accident
I unadvertently didn't return in one of my home work assignment.sorry! |
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8.status puo
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the exiting condition/present state of things.
we will vote for new president because we don't want to keep the status quo. |
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19.circumscribe
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to limit/to restrict/to enclose.
the Rhode Island is circumscribed by Atlantic Ocean. |
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11.tenable
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capable of being defended/logical.
the army must retreat to tenable position when it is under atack. |
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3.deduction
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something subtracted from a total.
if you are single and don't have dependents there might be more deductions from your pay check. |
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9.staunch
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faithful/firmly support/healthy/strong.
many staunch party members won't stand by the president in the next election. |
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5.eject
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to free to leave/to expel.
the troublemaker was ejected from the party. |
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7.stature
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level of achievement and honor/phsical heigght.
My father is a man of a great stature in the society |
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15.retract
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to withdraw a promise or statement/to pull something back.
condidates always retreat from their promises. |
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16.adverseray
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opponant/foe.
Bush and Al Gore were adverseary in the last presidental election. |
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1.abduction
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kidnaping.
the kidnaped child's mother was very sad. |
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12.tenacious
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firmly holding/gripping/retaining.
he made a tenaciou effort to finish the gargantuan project. |
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4.dejected
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depressed, downcast.
he dejectely sat on the floor,when he heard he failed the test. |
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23.transformation
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complete change.
some political parties make promises that they will make transformation if they win the election. |
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18.perverse
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contrary/determined not to do what is expected or right.
in a perverse attitude, he did not greet me when came to my home. |
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transitory
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short-lived/existing briefly/passing.
My doctor did not prescripe any medicine when I got a cold last week, he told me it was transitory. |
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21.circumvetn
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to avoid/to outwit.
some criminals don't tel the truth about their cases to circumvent the law. |
