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Vocabulary 5: Flashcards
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09/28/2022

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Term

Initiation

 

 

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Definition

the action of admitting someone into a secret or obscure society or group, typically with a ritual

 

 

 

i am in a group of society in my school

 

 

 

 

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Divinity 

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Definition

the state or quality of being divine

 

 

 

 

 She has a Doctorate in Divinity from York University

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Insinuate

 

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Definition

 suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way.

 

 

He gradually insinuated himself into her life

Term
Initiation
Definition
the action of admitting someone into a secret or obscure society or group, typically with a ritual
Term
Divinity
Definition
the state or quality of being divine
Term
Insinuate
Definition
suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way.
Term
Annihilate
Definition
destroy utterly; obliterate.
"a simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all
Term

Annihilate

 

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Definition

destroy utterly; obliterate.

"a simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all

 

 

 

The enemy troops were annihilated

Term

                           Dispersed

 

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Definition

 

distribute or spread over a wide area.

 

 

 

 

Police ordered the crowd to disperse.

Term

                             Surname

 

 

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Definition

a hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a given name.

 

 

 

 

When our daughter married, her husband changed his surname to ours.

 

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                 Encumbered

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Definition

a painting or drawing

 

 

This is the picture that Mary painted

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                        Insignifican

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Definition

 

too small or unimportant to be worth consideration

 

 

 

 

They lost an insignificant amount of money

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                           Profoundly

 

 

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Definition

to a profound extent; extremely.

 

 

 

     His position as a younger son profoundly influenced his future career

Term
DEPORTEE
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Definition
  1. a person who has been or is being expelled from a country.
     
     
     
     
     
     
    The deportees return to face scarce job opportunities and uncertainty
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  •              Emigration

 

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Definition

the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

 

The marquis fled abroad with his second son Louis at the time of the emigration of the nobles.

Term

 Treatise

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Definition

a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.

 

 

 

He issued a technical scientific treatise

Term

Anecdote

 

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Definition

a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

 

 

 

 

. The Journalist tried to relieve the tension by telling anecdotes of Hettie Potter.

Term

. Melancholy 

 

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Definition

 

a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

 

 

 

 

 

I was deeply aware of his melancholy as he stood among the mourners

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Definition

kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.

 

 

He made a surreptitious recording with a concealed hand-held machine

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