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Vocabulary Word Flash Cards

 

Our flash cards are a great way of testing if you've learned the meanings of the words in this section. Look at the words below and see if you can remember what each of them means.

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Go through the whole list to see how many word definitions you can recall. Practise until you're confident you can recall all of them.

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Pellucid
extremely clear
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Aesthete
a person who loves and appreciates works of art and beautiful things
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Legerdemain
sleight of hand; magic trick; trickery; deception
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Stagnate (verb)
to cease to run or flow; to become inactive
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Condolence
an expression of sympathy especially for the family of someone who has recently died
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Profligate
wasteful with money or resources
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Vacate
to leave
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Equanimity
calmness especially in a difficult situation
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Vainglorious
excessively proud of oneself or one's achievements
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Emollient (noun)
(a cream or liquid) that softens the skin
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Stint
1. supply a very ungenerous or inadequate amount 2. a period of time spent doing a particular job or activity
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Poleaxe
1. To hit so hard someone falls down 2. Cause a great shock
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Adept
very skilled or expert at something
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Gobbledygook
language that is meaningless or made unintelligible by excessive use of technical terms
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Cipher
secret code; a secret way of writing
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Aggrandize
to make something or someone great or greater
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Preponderance
a superiority in numbers, power, size, importance or strength
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Impervious
1. not allowing liquid to go through 2. unable to be affected by
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Clemency
mercy: kindness when giving punishment
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Militarism
the belief that a country should maintain strong military capability and be prepared to use it
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