50s Vocabulary Words – Flashcards
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querulous
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tending to complain; whining
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quantitative
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relating to quantity; measurable
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nonchalant
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indifferent, calm, and unconcerned
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promiscuous
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demonstrating or applying and undiscriminating or unselective approach
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anthropomorphism
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attributing human characteristics to non humans
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feign
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pretend something, invent something
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assuage
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relieve something unpleasant
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futile
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in vein, having no useful result
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sanguine
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confident; cheerfully optimistic
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philanthropy
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desire to benefit humanity
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misogyny
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hatred of women
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avarice
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greed for wealth
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gentility
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refinement; upper class status
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pragmatism
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practical way of thinking about results
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progeny
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offspring; something resulting
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posit
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put something forward
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condescension
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snobby and pretentious manner
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pedantic
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too concerned with formal rules and details
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polemic
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passionate argument, often controversial
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sardonic
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disdainfully mocking
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provocative
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making people angry or excited, sexually arousing
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candid
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candor-honest; directness
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modulated
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alter something to make less strong
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expunge
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get rid of something completely
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erudite
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very knowledgeable through study
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antecedent
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something coming before; word that subsequent word refers to
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parallelism
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deliberate repetition of words or sentence structure for effect
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metonymy
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a figure of speech in which an attribute is used to represent the whole thing
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engender
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create or arise; have offspring
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genesis
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beginning
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warrant
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authorization to do something
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cogent
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rationally persuasive
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cynicism
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belief that people are insincere
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empathy
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vicarious understanding of another's feelings; especially due to similar or shared experience
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antipathy
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strongly negative feeling
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ambivalence
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conflict of ideas or attitudes; uncertainty
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colloquial
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informal speech
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didactic
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a message with an instructive purpose
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synesthesia
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the concurrent response of two or more of the senses to the stimulation of one
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prescience
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advance knowledge of things
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lugubrious
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gloomy, mournful; especially to an excessive degree
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qualifier
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somebody with right or skill, a word or phrase that modifies or restricts the meaning of another word or phrase
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temporal
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relating to time; brief
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concession
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reluctant, yielding
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admonition
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a mild but earnest rebuke
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petulant
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sulky or ill-tempered in a peevish manner
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unscrupulous
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not restrained by moral or ethical principals
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immutable
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unchanging or unchangeable
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antithesis
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direct opposite; figure of speech that use words or phrases to contrast each other to create a balanced effect
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blasphemy
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disrespect of religion
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quantification
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determine number or extent of something
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diatribe
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bitter verbal or written attack
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rebuttal
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to refute, to prove false, to deny the truth of something
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qualification
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essential attribute, official requirement
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doleful
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sad and mournful
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salutary
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useful, of value or benefit to something or someone
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enmity
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hostility; extreme hatred
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supposition
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hypothesis; suggestion that might be true
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feckless
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ineffective; unlikely to be successful
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acerbic
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bitter sharp in tone, taste, or manner
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insolent
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rude or arrogant, lack of respect
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egregious
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flagrant, conspicuously bad or offensive
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nostalgic
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sentimental recollection
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hedonism
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seeking of pleasure as a way of life
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disingenuous
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withholding information; not sincere
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credibility
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believability, willingness to believe
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synecdoche
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figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify the whole
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sensory
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relating to senses and the sense organs
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confirmation
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act of verifying or ratifying something
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anomaly
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irregularity, deviation
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esoteric
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abstruse; difficult to understand
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asceticism
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self-denying way of life
