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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Ignominious
Embarrassing because of being a complete failure; humiliating, disgraceful, shameful
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Surrealism
1. Fantastic or bizarre imagery or effects in art, literature, film or theatre through subconscious, unnatural or irrational combinations of things. 2. a 20th-century art movement which sought to realise the creative potential of the subconscious
Mnemonic
Conning Tower
A raised platform on a ship or submarine to help navigation and attack direction
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Seethe
1. (of a liquid) boil or to be turbulent as if boiling. 2. (of a person) to be filled with intense but unexpressed anger
Mnemonic
Irreverent
Showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously
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Subliminal
A stimulus below the threshold of conscious awareness; affecting someone's mind without the, being aware of it
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