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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.

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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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Reticence
The quality of being unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings.
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Courtesan
A prostitute with a wealthy or upper-class client
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Court Circular
A daily report of the activities and public engagements of the royal family members
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Court-martial
Military court
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Couth
Good manners, cultivated and refined
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Coup
1. A sudden, violent and illegal seizure of power from a government. 2. Achievement of something difficult
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Courteous
Polite, respectful or considerate
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Coy
1.Pretends to be shy. 2. Unwilling to talk about something
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Draconian
Excessively harsh and severe
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Condescend
To do something but behave as if you are descending from a superior position to do it
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Pervious
Allowing water to pass through
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Enigma
A person or thing that is mysterious or hard to understand
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Perplex
Make someone feel completely baffled
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Liaise
Work together on a matter of mutual concern, or as a link between people or organisations
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Depravity
Moral corruption; wickedness
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Vagary
An unexpected or inexplicable change in a situation or in someone's behaviour
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Conglomerate
A thing made up of a number of different parts ; big corporation formed by merger of several companies.
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Distend
To swell due to pressure from the inside
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Prefix
Element placed at the start of a word to adjust or qualify its meaning; word, letter or number placed before another; add something at the beginning
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Suffix
A letter or several letters added to the end of a word to make a new word, e.g. clue, clueless
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