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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Chauvinist
Prejudiced support of your own cause, group or sex
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Pre-emptive
Intended to forestall or prevent something occurring
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Auspicious
Favourable- showing signs that something is likely to be successful
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Austere
Severe or strict in manner / very simple and without comfort
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Autocracy
Government with one person holding absolute power
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Dyslexia
Learning difficulty that causes problems with word recognition
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Analogue
Measuring or representing information by means of physical, rather than digital properties
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Psychedelic
Relating to drugs that produce hallucinations, or generate hallucinations/effects on mind such as colour
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Gratuitous
Done without good reason
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Guffaw
Unrestrained loud burst of laughter
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Hygroscopic
absorb moisture (from the air even)
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Ransack
To go through a place damaging and stealing
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Slander
False statement against another person
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Annotate
To add a short explanation/opinion to a text
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