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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.

If you get stuck, press "mnemonic" to show an image that should help you remember.

To check if you're right, or remind you if you've forgotten, press the card to flip it.

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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Slate
Severely criticise another person
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Default
1. Fail to make a payment or fail to honour a contract or agreement. 2. The preselected option adopted by a computer or some other device, or the act of reverting to such a position
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Finite
limited in size or extent
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Franchise
Permission to sell another organisation's goods or services
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Emotive
Arousing or able to arouse intense feeling
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Consensus
General agreement; a generally accepted opinion or decision
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Scathe
hurt someone; injure
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Lip Service
Say you agree but do nothing
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Prestige
Respect and admiration for someone or something
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Peer Group
A group of people of approximately the same age, status and interests.
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Interdepend
To depend on each other
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Impasse
A position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock
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Synopsis
A brief summary
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Unsavoury
A person, place or thing which is unpleasant
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Asset
Valuable things; an item of property
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Interject
To say something while another is speaking; to interrupt someone
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Interpose
To place between someone or something
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Gross
1. Extremely unpleasant 2. Profit without deduction of tax 3. 144, or twelve dozen
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Nett
Profit after tax
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Ardent
Very enthusiastic or passionate
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