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Union Address (1790-2001); • (evenhanded)- impartial; equitable, ( ; ( ) ; ); So evenhanded, so tolerant of those who disagree with you on principle. — Clear and Present Danger; • (equity)- the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality, ( ; - ); "In a technical sense, the term equity is applied to those cases not specifically provided for by positive law." — Studies in Civics; giddy = frivolous = flippant = heedless = light-headed = airheaded = featherbrained = dizzy : vertigo • (giddy)- affected with vertigo; dizzy, ( ); • frivolous and lighthearted; impulsive; flighty,( , ); The horrible discovery made him giddy, and his head swam on his first look down into that abyss of infamy. — The Wandering Jew — Volume 07; • (frivolous)- characterized by lack of seriousness or sense, ( , , , , ( ) , , ); Some of the criticisms were frivolous, and revealed the partisan, rather than the honest man. — The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873; • (flippant)- frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity, ( , , , , ); The reply was careless, flippant, almost contemptuous. — The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 06: 1560-61; • (heedless)- careless; thoughtless; unmindful, ( ; ; ); He was naturally rough, headstrong, and heedless--qualities that tend to drag a youth down to ruin. — The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning; • (light-headed)- thoughtless; heedless; volatile; unsteady; fickle; loose; She felt light-headed from both excitement and fear. — One Summer Evening; • (airheaded)- Slang. a scatterbrained, stupid, or simple-minded person; dolt; • (featherbrained)- a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain; • (dizzy)- having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall; giddy; vertiginous, ( ); He was dizzy, sick, faint, but he must not die, and he must not tarry, for his life meant many lives that day. — The White Company; • (vertigo)- a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings, ( ; ); A sickening vertigo, a whirling head, sent him lurching across the room. —
Java Head; flippant > flippancy = levity = frivolity • (flippancy)- the state or quality of being flippant; She is above that affectation of brilliancy which is often mere flippancy. — George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy; • (levity)- lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness, ( ; ); His discourse was cheerful without levity, and pious without enthusiasm. — Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes; • (frivolity)- irresponsibility, triviality, abandon, levity, foolishness, ( ; ; ); Without ever being charged with frivolity, he sang, and whistled, and laughed. — Forty Years in South China;
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To our parents
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Preface After years of painstaking
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Distinctive Features of the Book 1.
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How to Use This Book Following are
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Legends: Synonym = Synonym variant
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Mnemonics - Word Memorization Trick
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Remember, the goal of expanding you
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turned jubilant, and one of them ru
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feeling the person's clothing, ( );
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1.2 Sorrow affliction, crestfallen,
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excesses and neglect. — Civics an
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negro in Watteau's drawing--patheti
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• (jeremiad)- a prolonged lamenta
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hair, brunette, darker than I remem
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• (deplore)- to regret deeply or
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exhaustion—Miss Ludington's Siste
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Speeches of Kossuth; • (indemnity
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• (declivity)- a downward slope,
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community or group, ( ); Reigning o
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1.4 Hate abhore, detestable, reveng
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quinine, wormwood, or aloes; After
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• (egregious)- extraordinary in s
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( ; ); And on all the men of Vaiau
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• (madden)- to anger or infuriate
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demoniac = possessed = berserk = am
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tempestuous = ferment = unrest •
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1.6 Fear 1.6.1 Fright fawn, coward,
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of Sentiment; ); He is no slave to
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son-in-law, M. de Conde. — The Li
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• (exorcise)- to seek to expel (a
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); He held up his umbrella in mock
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to speedy success; • (propitious)
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• (callophobia)- fear of beauty;
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hypnophobia • (hypnophobia)- an a
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women; megalomania : grandeur : ma
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• (tipsiness)- (tipsy) slightly i
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); He was flustered, wanting and no
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would wreak the greatest havoc, so
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and discontent which are often seen
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answering it or discovering its mea
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• (nexus)- a means of connection;
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• (churn)- a container or machine
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Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
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add that it only served to embitter
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• ( , ); • (chevy)- to chase; r
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petulant, pesterer, aggravate, pert
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Architecture: From Incite comes Ins
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Stories Ever Told; • (disquietude
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; ); God is no more than a name for
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Composers; • (emend)- to edit or
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• empty pomp or show; self-love {
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odacious : audacious = brave = intr
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comprehensive, and drawn from image
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emphasize the connections between i
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threatened. — The Life of Francis
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1.12 Perception visual perception,
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gustatory perception, taste, savory
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• (comestible)- edible; eatable;
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• (fete)- a day of celebration; h
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quinine, wormwood, or aloes; After
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1.14 Body Types thin, fat cadaverou
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living body directly upon the osseo
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Luke and the Princess. — Splinter
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wrongly; astray, ( ; ; ); He greete
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• (tortuosity)- the quality or co
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dilapidation > dilapidated = ramsha
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( / / ; ); Where other people writh
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• (trot)- the gait of a horse or
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genetically altered mice to have on
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the same place. — The New South A
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1.16 Sex voluptuous, coquette, riba
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something of a connoisseur of femin
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• (swelter)- to suffer from oppre
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had no revenge to gratify, as again
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her austere mode of life has been c
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• (miscreant)- depraved, villaino
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1.17 Money 1.17.1 Financial State d
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fanaticism, he managed it. ' — Bo
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merchants and the men of learning.
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• (cumshaw)- a present; gratuity;
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execution was effective and brillia
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a state of hostilities between two
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• prohibiting violation; secure f
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• (coup)- highly successful actio
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and seditious articles, but were re
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settlements. — The Life and Adven
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terrible patience of the wilderness
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1.19 Religion religion, doctrine, e
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King Alfred of England; • (impiet
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of luxury and sensual pleasure, ( ,
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aberrant, and thoroughly eccentric
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authority, and function; depose, (
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Written by Himself; • (chicanery)
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at an archaeological excavation, (
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tried to get at him in many ways; b
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2.1 Society PART 2 social classes,
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scream out of her. — Garwood, Jul
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tried to embroider, as she sat alon
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propriety : protocol • (propriety
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they lead. — My Lady of the Chine
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expected to do the thousand indispe
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• (cursive)- (of handwriting) in
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provided an extended field for thes
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consulted, to see if there is any d
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seminary--there was only one in all
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2.4 Tools instruments, utensils, de
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chiefly to drive a chisel or wedge;
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GRE; • to bring forth or produce;
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• to deprive or strip of apparatu
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North Star; lupine^ piscine^piscato
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• (impregnate) - to make pregnant
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was a small patch of lawn. — The
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2.5.2 Medical Science infection, an
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( ); Aloe Vera works as antiseptic,
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pulmonary : palpitate = throb = flu
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interest to systems biologists, has
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health, ( ; ); King Philip the Fift
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just walking straight ahead, oblivi
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the deluge was the complete destruc
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— Catholic Problems in Western Ca
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condensation, as for purification o
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democracy : hegemony • (bureaucra
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gerrymander : demagogue • (gerrym
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2.10 Other Social Sciences finance,
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• an act or instance of extractin
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allowance : leniency : lax : latitu
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was too busy trying to disentangle
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public liberties and of public mora
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pillage, ( , ); While their territo
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make gradual inroads, ( , , ); To p
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places of the town. — The Works o
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discussion and debate, ( - , ); His
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militate : draconian : generality
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which the lessons are read during t
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• (veneer)- thin layer; cover, (
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sun through the agency of chlorophy
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patterns, fabrics, miscellaneous fl
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• (mottled)- spotted or blotched
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with barley, ( , , ); • (ragbag)-
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2.13 Literature, Drama & Music 2.13
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importance to Luther in this treati
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written or printed in red or otherw
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• a decorative design or small il
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• the text or words of an opera o
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2.13.2 Writing & Speaking Styles co
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ealisation of life; • (unfathomab
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other hand the seeds do not all ger
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inchoate = incipient^ inception •
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• (pamper)- to treat or gratify w
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made me swear never to divulge his
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to infinity. — The Ghost from the
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foresaw that he must be overpowered
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presents itself as a congeries of l
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promulgate extensively; broadcast;
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create the success you desire; •
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second dispatch, which is read like
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process, etc.), (( ) ; ); Carlotta'
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hindrances; obstruct; hinder, ( / /
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of the larynx or trachea; We laugh
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simultaneously. — Benjamin Frankl
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of his countenance was altered. —
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• deprived or destitute of inhabi
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lambaste = beat with cane : pummel
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