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This set of flashcards helps learners expand their English vocabulary with a focus on advanced and obscure words. It includes terms like "juxtaposition," "voluble," and "chimerical," covering a wide range of meanings and usages. The platform supports backward learning, allowing users to practice from the target language to the source language, making it versatile for both native and non-native speakers. Ideal for advanced learners, students preparing for exams, or anyone looking to enhance their fluency, this set of flashcards offers a comprehensive tool for mastering complex English vocabulary.

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24.12.2018 / 17.02.2023

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Betwixt

1: (adv.) (Archaic) between.

Braw

1: (adj.) (Scottish) Fine, good, or pleasing.

Empyrean

1: (adj.) Relating to heaven or the sky.
2: (n.) (the empyrean) The highest part of heaven, thought by the ancients to be the realm of pure fire.
3: The visible heavens; the sky

Philter

1: (n.) a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
2: a magic potion for any purpose.
3: (v.) to enchant or bewitch with a philter.

Criticaster

(n.) an incompetent critic.

Hypocorism

1: (n.) the practice of using a pet name.
2: a pet name.
3: the use of forms of speech imitative of baby talk, especially by an adult.

Thundersnow

1: (n.) a thunderstorm with a brief heavy snow instead of rain.

Ephemeron

1: (n.) anything short-lived or ephemeral.
2: (Plural ephemera) items designed to be useful or important for only a short time, especially pamphlets, notices, tickets, etc.

Cupreous

1: (adj.) copper-colored; metallic reddish-brown.
2: consisting of or containing copper; copperlike.

Ocellated

1: (adj.) (of an animal) having eye-like markings.

Deasil

1: (adv.) (Scottish) clockwise or in a direction following the apparent course of the sun: considered as lucky or auspicious

Octogenarian

1: (adj.) of the age of 80 years.
2: between 80 and 90 years old.
3: (n.) a person who is between 80 and 90 years old.

deracinate

entwurzeln

deterge

- 1: (v.) to wipe or wash away; cleanse.
2: to cleanse of impurities or undesirable matter, as a wound.

chimerical

1: (adj.) unreal; imaginary; visionary.
2: wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic.

Gowk

1: (n.) (British Dialect) cuckoo.
2: a fool or simpleton.

Ecclesiastical

1: (adj.) of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.

Voluble

1: (adj.) (of a person) talking fluently, readily, or incessantly.
2: (of speech) characterized by fluency and readiness of utterance.

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Fossick

1: (v.) (NZ, Australian) Rummage; search.
2: Search for gold in abandoned workings.

Juxtaposition

1: (n.) an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
2: the state of being close together or side by side.

Gleeful

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full of exultant joy; merry; delighted

Mother-of-pearl

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A smooth shining iridescent substance forming the inner layer of the shell of some molluscs, especially oysters and abalones, used in ornamentation.

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Keld

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a well, fountain, spring

a deep, still, smooth part of a river.

Yare

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quick; agile; lively.
(of a ship) quick to the helm; easily handled or maneuvered.

(Archaic) ready; prepared.
(Archaic) nimble; quick.

Bashful

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uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.
indicative of, accompanied by, or proceeding from bashfulness.

Bruxism

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Patholgic teeth grinding

Busker

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a person who entertains esp. by singing or reciting on the street, in pubs, or in subway passages

canorous

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melodious; musical

Cerulean

Attribution de licence

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Deep blue in colour like a clear sky.

Selcouth

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strange; uncommon.

Soliloquy

1: (n.) an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present.
2: the act of talking while or as if alone.

Bodacious

1: (adj.) (North American) Excellent, admirable, or attractive.
2: Audacious in a way considered admirable

Osculation

1: (n.) the act of kissing.
2: a kiss.
3: close contact.
4: (Geometry) the contact between two osculating curves or the like.

Chiliad

1: (n.) a group of 1000.
2: a period of 1000 years.

Alacrity

1: (n.) cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness.
2: liveliness; briskness.

Clepsydra

1: (n.) an ancient device for measuring time by the regulated flow of water or mercury through a small aperture.

Colporteur

1: (n.) Someone employed by a religious society to distribute bibles and other religious tracts.
2: A person who sells books, newspapers, and similar literature.

Excogitate

1: (v.) Think out, plan, or devise.

Obelisk

1: (n.) a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex.
2: something resembling such a shaft.
3: an obelus

Cudgel

1: (n.) a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
2: (v.) to strike with a cudgel; beat.

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Juxtaposition

1: (n.) an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
2: the state of being close together or side by side.

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