Vocabulary flash cards

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Vocabulary flash cards

• On a Power Point?

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Theyre in no particular order!

• coalition n
• a combination, union, or merger for some specific
  purpose
• elicit v
• to draw forth, bring out from some source (such
  as another person)

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• hiatus n
• a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an
  element missing)
• intercede v
• to plead on behalf of someone else to serve as
  a third party or go-between in a disagreement

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Keep thinking!

• lurid adj.
• causing shock, horror, or revulsion sensational
  pale or shallow in color terrible or passionate
  in intensity or lack of restraint
• approbation n
• the expression of approval or favorable opinion,
  praise official approval

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• decadence n
• decline, decay, or deterioration a condition or
  period of decline or decay excessive
  self-indulgence
• expostulate v
• to attempt to dissuade someone from some course
  or decision by earnest reasoning

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My parents expostulate with me constantly, but I
still eat too much junk.

• simulate v
• to make a pretense of, imitate to show the outer
  signs of
• umbrage n
• shade cast by trees foliage giving shade an
  overshadowing influence or power offense,
  resentment a vague suspicion

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The snakes decadence proved fatal.
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Reverse order this time

• a combination, union, or merger for some specific
  purpose
• coalition n
• to draw forth, bring out from some source (such
  as another person)
• elicit v

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Ohh I know this one!

• a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an
  element missing)
• hiatus n
• to plead on behalf of someone else to serve as
  a third party or go-between in a disagreement
• intercede v

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Its on the tip of my tongue!

• causing shock, horror, or revulsion sensational
  pale or shallow in color terrible or passionate
  in intensity or lack of restraint
• lurid adj.
• the expression of approval or favorable opinion,
  praise official approval
• approbation n

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Yeah that one!

• decline, decay, or deterioration a condition or
  period of decline or decay excessive
  self-indulgence
• decadence n
• to attempt to dissuade someone from some course
  or decision by earnest reasoning
• expostulate v

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Last two words . . .

• to make a pretense of, imitate to show the outer
  signs of
• simulate v
• shade cast by trees foliage giving shade an
  overshadowing influence or power offense,
  resentment a vague suspicion
• umbrage n

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This coalition of bears was commonly called a
Wyoming Street Gang.
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The rest of the list begins

• unctuous adj.
• excessively smooth or smug trying too hard to
  give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or
  piety fatty, oily pliable
• prerogative n
• a special right or privilege a special quality
  showing excellence

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Hide the answers in your head!

• assuage v
• to make easier or milder, relieve to quiet,
  calm to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench
• meritorious adj.
• worthy, deserving recognition and praise

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The people who are trying to make you spend all
your money know these words

• innuendo n
• a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often
  in a derogatory sense)
• transcend v
• to rise above or beyond, exceed
• petulant adj.
• peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and
  upset

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Could you shorten up this definition a little?

• provincial adj.
• pertaining to an outlying area local narrow in
  mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of
  being limited and backward of a simple, plain
  design that originated in the countryside
• (n) a person with a narrow point of view a
  person from an outlying area a soldier from a
  province or colony

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Ive heard that word before

• jaded adj.
• wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being
  satiated by excessive indulgence)
• hackneyed adj.
• used so often as to lack freshness or originality

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Even this add couldnt shock a culture towards
violence.
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My brain hurts!

• wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being
  satiated by excessive indulgence)
• jaded adj.
• countrified in the sense of being limited and
  backward
• provincial adj.

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But this is how one studies!

• a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often
  in a derogatory sense)
• innuendo n
• to make easier or milder, relieve to quiet,
  calm to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench
• assuage v

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100 on a vocabulary test would be great!

• excessively smooth or smug trying too hard to
  give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or
  piety fatty, oily pliable
• unctuous adj.
• used so often as to lack freshness or originality
• hackneyed adj.

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Think, McFly, think!

• a special right or privilege a special quality
  showing excellence
• prerogative n
• excessively smooth or smug trying too hard to
  give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or
  piety fatty, oily pliable
• unctuous adj.

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Did Thomas Jefferson know these words?

• to rise above or beyond, exceed
• transcend v
• peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and
  upset
• petulant adj.

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The safety harness did little to assuage his
fears.