AP English Vocab 1-7 – Flashcards
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given or have free rein (no rules)
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carte blanche (n)
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What does carte blanche mean and in what language?
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white menu in french
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to be infatuated
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Smitten (adj/past participle)
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What is the origin of smitten?
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to smite (to pierce/kill) pierced with cupid's arrow
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unstoppable force
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Juggernaut (n)
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What language does juggernaut come from
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hindi
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(adj/adv) unknown/unrecognized
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Incognito
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What does incognito mean, in what language, and what is the origin.
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Unknown in Italian Cognoscere to know/be familiar with
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to be made up of
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Comprise (v)
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breaks or stopping it
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Kibosh (n) "to put the kibosh on"
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What is the common use of kibosh and what language does it come from?
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"put the kibosh on" from yiddish
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unplanned/impromptu
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Extemporaneous (adj)
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What is the root of extemporaneous
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Temp means time- out of time
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(adj) Juicy (gossip)
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Salacious
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to argue over insignificant things
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Quibble (v)
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look alike/double
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Doppelgänger (n)
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What is the root of doppelgänger and in what language
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Doppel means double/two in German
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to make (a situation) worse
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Exacerbate (v)
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to spread or scatter (like information/gossip-not literal)
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Disseminate (v)
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What is the root in Disseminate and in what language
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Sem meaning seed in latin
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power/dominance (usually of one country over another)
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Hegemony (n)
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over and over to the point of annoyance
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Ad Nauseam (adv)
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What does Ad Nauseam mean and in what language
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"Towards Nausea" in latin
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out of touch/out of reach
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Incommunicado (adj/adv)
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What language is incommunicado?
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Italian
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to flip flop (like traditional roles)
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Subvert (v)
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against or opposed
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Averse (adj) (averse to doing something)
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What is the noun form of averse?
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Aversion
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sophisticated bordem
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Ennui (n)
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appearing everywhere
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Ubiquitous (adj)
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What is the root in Ubiquitous and in what language?
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Ubi meaning where Latin
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"that's life" An expression used to play down some minor disappointment
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C'est la vie (expression)
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between us (implies a secret)
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entre nous (adv-prepositional phrase)
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talkative
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Loquacious (adj)
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what is the root of loquacious?
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comes from loquor (to talk in latin)
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(German) forbidden (but really it means taboo/frowned upon by society)
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Verboten (adj)
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to socialize with people who are somehow better than you
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Hobnob (v)
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what is the gerund form of hobnob?
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hobnobbing
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diligent; hardworking
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Assiduous (adj)
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upsetting in a disturbing way
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Disconcerting (participial/adj)
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what verb does disconcerting come from?
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to disconcert
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a breather
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Respite (n)
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the contradicting opposite
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Antithesis (n)
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what is the adj of antithesis?
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antithetical
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what is the plural of antithesis?
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antitheses
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extra or not needed
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superfluous (adj)
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passing the point of no return
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Crossing the rubicon (participle)
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Who crossed the rubicon?
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Julius Caesar crossed the rubicon knowing that it would cause war
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an uneducated person; someone of little refinement
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Yahoo (n)
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What is the origin of yahoos?
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they are characters in Gulliver's travels
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a warning
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Caveat (n)
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dangerously unstable
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Precarious (adj)
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What is a common phrase using precarious?
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in a precarious position
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a fan
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Aficionado (n)
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What language is Aficionado?
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Spanish
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something that has two meanings (a literal meaning and usually a naughty meaning)
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Double Entendre (n)
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What language is Double Entendre?
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French
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What is an example double entendre in literature?
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In Romeo and Juliet "my naked weapon is out"
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lasting for a brief time; fleeting
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Ephemeral (adj)
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indirect roundabout
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Circuitous (adj)
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a situation in which you have two options and they are both equally bad
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Catch-22 (n)
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"the joy of living" zest for life
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Joie de vivre (n)
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What language is Joie de vivre?
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French
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"time ghost" the spirit of the times
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Zeitgeist (n)
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What language is Zeitgeist?
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German
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Unreturned (not a physical object)
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Unrequited (adj)
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to compare/place side by side two dissimilar things
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Juxtapose (v) (you must juxtapose x *with* y)
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something in the wrong time period
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Anachronism (n)
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a statement that does not logically follow the conversation
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Non Sequitur (n)
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coolness under pressure
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Sangfroid (n)
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socially awkward
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Gauche (adj)
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joking in a sarcastic way (not necessarily at an appropriate time)
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Facetious (adj)
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to split to groups apart ideologically
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Polarize (v)
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A belief held by a community
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Tenet (n)
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a person not welcome
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Persona non Grata (n)
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what is an example of something that is commonly unrequited?
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unrequited love
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What is the adjective form of anachronism?
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Anachronistic
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What is the greek root in anachronistic
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chron meaning time
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What is an example of an anachronism?
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a line about clocks in Julius Caesar because clocks were invented in Shakespeare's time but not the roman empire
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What is special about the world Facetious
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it is one of the three words in the english language with all of the vowel in order
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What is the latin root in tenet?
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Tenere meaning to hold
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experienced through someone else
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vicarious (adj)
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what is a common expression using vicarious?
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a vicarious thrill
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secret or hidden
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Clandestine (adj)
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ruthless; power hungry at any cost
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Machiavellian (adj)
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What is the origin of Machiavellian?
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comes from Niccolò Machiavelli (author of the the prince)
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to agree (to)
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Acquiesce (v)
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awkward to carry/awkward to handle (literal or figurative)
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Cumbersome (adj)
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a situation that has gone totally wrong
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Debacle (n)
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promising good things
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Auspicious (adj)
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What is a common expression using auspicious?
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an auspicious beginning
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a nicer way of saying something not so nice
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Euphemism (n)
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What are the adj and adv forms of Euphemism?
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Euphemistic/Euphemistically
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unspoken, silent
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Tacit (adj)
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What language does the word tacit come from
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latin
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a slip of the tongue that might secretly reveal what you are really thinking
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Freudian Slip (n)
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What is origin of Freudian Slip?
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it comes from psycoanalyist Sigmund Freud
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spelling word 1 (d)
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definitely
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spelling word 2 (b)
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beginning
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spelling word 3 (i)
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immediately
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a glitch
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Snafu (n)
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multi-demensional
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Multi-faceted (adj)
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back and forth conversation or to converse back and forth (often light-hearted)
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Banter (n or v)
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to be advantageous to
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Behoove (v)
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what is the common phrase using behoove
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"it would behoove you to"
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therefore/thus
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Ergo (conj)
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fraud (doctor)
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quack (n)
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double crossing/decepetive
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duplicitous (adj)
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literally means (i have been) touched; expression is used as good comeback
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Touché (expression)
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as a group
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En Masse (adv) (you do things en masse)
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something you always do to get something done (negative continuation-what ever you are trying to do should not be done)
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Modus Operandi (M.O.)
