Flash card puns
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Created by:
iandiamond928 on August 23, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adulation | flattery, admiration |
| adversity | poverty, misfortune |
| advocate | urge and plead for |
| aesthetic | pertaining to art or beauty |
| affable | easily approachable and warmly friendly |
| affirmation | confirmation and assertion |
| aggregate | total |
| alleviate | relieve or make more bearable |
| aloof | apart and reserved |
| altruistic | unselfishly generous and concerned for others |
| ambiguous | unclear or doubtful in meaning, ambivalence |
| ambivalence | state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes |
| amorphous | formless, lacing shape or definition |
| anarchist | person who seeks to overturn the established government |
| anomaly | deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule |
| antagonism | hatred or hostility |
| antediluvian | antiquated, extremely old |
| antidote | a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison |
| antiquated | old-fashioned, obsolete |
| apathy | lack or interest or concern |
| appease | to make calm, soothe; to relieve, satisfy; to yield to |
| apprehension | fearful expectation or anticipation |
| archaic | ancient, out of date |
| ardent | intense passionate zealous |
| arrogance | pride, haughtiness |
| artifact | made by humans |
| artisan | a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft |
| ascendancy | the state that exists when one person or group has power over another, dominant |
| ascetic | practices self denial as spiritual discipline |
| aspire | seek to attain or long for |
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