100 vocabulary words every college student should know – Flashcards
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exacerbate
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to aggravate or increase in severity
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placate
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to lessen someone's anger or hard feelings
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vacillate
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to swing indecisively from one idea to another
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epiphany
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sudden or spontaneous realization
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ephemeral
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from the greek "day"--it means short lived or fleeting
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posthumous
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"after death" --
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plebian
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someone with unrefined tastes
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hierarchy
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ranking of people or things in order of importance
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bourgeois
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middle class
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catharsis
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a cleansing of emotions like pity and fear. Taken from Greek tragedies (how viewer felt after watchign them)
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immaculate
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impeccably clean or flawless
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innuendo
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hint
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apathetic
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from Greek root "path" (feeling) and prefix "a" (absent of)--it means unfeeling
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melancholy
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sad
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eclectic
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from various sources
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amnesty
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a pardon for offenses. (comes from same root as "amnesia" = forgetting)
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camaraderie
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friendship
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squalid
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dirty or wretched
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rancid
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nasty
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posterity
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generations that will come after you
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unwieldy
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awkward to manipulate with grace
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prodigious
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huge, enormous
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garish
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loud, flashy, glaring
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feral
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wild
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aesthetic
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appreciates beauty
