Vocab List #11

Verb: To destroy the self-confidence, poise, or self-possession of; disconcert; make ashamed or embarrassed

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To ___ someone by sneering.

Adj: promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable

Adj: favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate

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An ____ occasion.

Noun: respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another

Noun: respectful or courteous regard

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In ____ to his wishes.

Noun: conduct; behavior; deportment

Noun: facial appearance; mien

Noun: general external appearance; aspect; semblance

Noun: assumed appearance or mere semblance

Noun: style of dress

Verb: to dress; attire

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An old principle in a new ____.

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Under the ____ of friendship.

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In the ____ of a shepherd.

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Children ____ as cowboys.

Adj: extending back beyond memory, record, or knowledge

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From time ______.

Adj: of or pertaining to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies

Adj: beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or understanding; mysterious

Adj: secret; disclosed or communicated only to the initiated

Adj: secret from view

Noun: the supernatural or supernatural agencies and affairs considered as a whole (usually preceded by the)

Noun: occult studies or sciences (usually preceded by the)

Verb: to block or shut off (an object) from view; hide

Verb: to become hidden or shut off from view

Verb: to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being profess or claim, often falsely

Verb: to convey to the mind as the meaning or thing intended; express or imply

Noun: the meaning, import, or sense

Noun: purpose; intention; object

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A document _____ to be official.

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The main ___ of your letter.

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The main ____ of their visit to France.

Adj: of or pertaining to tailors or their trade

Adj: of or pertaining to clothing or style or manner of dress

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____ workmanship.

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_____ splendor.

Noun: a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations

Noun: a combination of bankers or capitalists formed for the purpose of carrying out some project requiring large resources of capital, as the underwriting of an issue of stock or bonds.

Noun: a group, combination, or association of gangsters controlling organized crime or one type of crime, especially in one region of the country.

Noun: a council or body of syndics

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The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying ____.

Adj: subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion

Adj: decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a law or statue

Adj: having unlimited power; uncontrolled or unrestricted by law; despotic; tyrannical

Adj: capricious; unreasonable; unsupported

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An ____ decision.

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An ____ government.

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An ____ demand for payment.

Verb: to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully

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They ____ him into agreeing.

Noun: government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials

Noun: the body of officials and administrators, especially of a government or government department

Noun: excessive multiplication of, and concentration of power in, administrative bureaus or administrators

Noun: administration characterized by excessive red tape and routine

Noun: anything prohibited by law from being imported or exported

Noun: goods imported or exported illegally

Noun: illegal or prohibited trade; smuggling

Adj: lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly

Adj: empty; void

Noun: something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space

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_____ questions.

Adj: shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic

Adj: contrived in a shrewd and practical way; expedient

Adj: political

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A ___ reply.

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The body _____.

Adj: done deliberately; planned in advance

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A ____ murder.

Noun: the agency, function, or power of a person authorized to act as the deputy or substitute for another

Noun: the person so authorized; substitute; agent

Noun: a written authorization empowering another person to vote or act for the signer, as at a meeting of stockholders

Noun: an ally or confederate who can be relied upon to speak or act in one's behalf

Noun: a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place

Verb: to make a scapegoat of

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Strike leaders tried to ____ foreign competitors.

Adj: not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory

Adj: lasting only a short time; existing briefly; temporary

Adj: staying only a short time

Noun: a person or thing that is transient, especially a temporary guest, boarder, laborer, or the like

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____ authority.

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The _____ guests at a hotel.