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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Materialistic

Caring more about things than people. Especially concerned with material possessions.

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Mezzanine

A small extra floor between two main floors. An intermediate floor with a balcony.

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Pontiff

Another name for the pope. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church

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Ostensible

Apparent. Appearing to be true but not necessarily so.

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Inaugurate

Begin a system or policy or period. Introduce someone into an official position with a ceremony

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Incarcerate

Imprison; send to jail

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Articulate

Able to express one's ideas or feelings easily

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Inane

Empty and silly

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Animate

Make alive. Bring to life.

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Quango

A semi public organisation paid by the government to consider a subject.

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Tempestuous

Very stormy and emotional

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Rebuke

Express sharp disapproval or criticism. To speak angrily to someone.

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Sartorial

Relating to tailored clothes or style of dress

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Coerce

Persuade by force or threats

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Soffit

Underside of the overhanging part of the roof

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Tantamount

Having the same degree of seriousness; virtually the same severity

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Permissive

Allowing excessive freedom of behaviour that other people might disapprove of

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Comestible

An item of food

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Fervent

Displaying a passionate intensity

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Evangelical

According to the teaching of the gospel or the Christian religion.

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