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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.

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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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Sycophant
A person who praises people authority just to get some advantage
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Compunction
A guilty feeling about something you have done or might do.
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Cybernetics
The scientific stdy of communication and automatic control systems in machnes and living things
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Thankless
Not appreciated
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Chaste
Not having sex. Virtuous, pure, original.
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Retort
To reply in a sharp or angry manner
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Suppliant
A person making a humble or earnest plea to someone in power. Making or expressing a plea
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Irascible
Easily angered.
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Deft
Skilful, clever and quick
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Meld
Combine and blend
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Gerrymander
Manipulate the boundaries of an electoral constituency so as to favour one party or class
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Pessimism
Believeing that the worst will happen
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Optimism
Believing that the best will happen
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Effluvium
An unpleasant or harmful smell or discharge.
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Alacrity
Brisk and cheerful readiness; willingness; eagerness
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Pugnacious
Eager or quick to start a fight or argue.
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Mottled
Marked with spots or smears of colours
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Sagacious
Ability to understand and make good judgement
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Chide
scold or rebuke
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Strident
Loud, harsh or grating; excessively forceful in giving a point of view.
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