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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Blaspheme

Insult God or sacred thing

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Degenerate (noun)

A person lacking in morals, a corrupt person

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Semblance

The outward appearance of something, especially when the reality is different

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Snide

unpleasant criticism in an indirect way

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Hysterics

Uncontrollable and exaggerated emotional reaction

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Quaker

A member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox in 1650

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Entrust

to give someone the responsibility of doing something

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Munition

Weapons and stores used by the military

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Prefabricate

Building a building in parts in a factory for quick assembly on site

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Embark

To board a ship, aircraft or vehicle

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Emancipate

The act of freeing someone, especially from legal, political or social constraints, or slavery

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Paranoia

The irrational and persistent feeling that people are out to get you

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Testy

Impatient, irritable and touchy

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Mania

Mental illness characterised by excessive emotion

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Conjugation

The change that takes place in a verb to express tense, mood, person and so on

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Quaint

appealingly unusual or old fashioned

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Intone

To speak in a voice with little rise or fall in pitch

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Cameo

1. A small part, performed by a distinguished actor. 2. Item of jewellery, often a brooch, with a portrait in profile carved in relief on a background of a different colour

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Vitriolic

Filled with criticism and anger

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Connoisseur

An expert judge in matters of taste such as art, food or drink

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