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FLASH CARDS # 17 - 22






Flash card # 17




  • Alias : Otherwise called; otherwise known as

  • Alienated : Mae unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent where attachment formerly existed

  • Allege : To declare to be the case, esp. without proof

  • Alleges : Asserts without proof or before proving

  • Allergy : Hypersensitive reaction to a particular allergen




Flash card # 18




  • Alleviate : To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate or make easier to be endured

  • Alleviated : Relived or lessened the force or weight of

  • Alliance : An association to further the common interests of its members

  • Allied : Having or being in close association

  • Allies : Two or more nations joined together in an alliance to fight a common enemy



Flash card # 19




  • Allusion : A figurative or symbolical reference

  • Allusions : An implied or indirect reference especially in literature

  • Almanac : A publication containing astronomical, meteorological, and other data for a given year

  • Aloof : At a distance

  • Alteration : The making of a limited change in something



Flash card # 20




  • Altercation : Noisy quarrel

  • Alter : To make different without changing into something else

  • Alternative : Offering or expressing a choice

  • Although : (Conjunction) despite the fact that

  • Alumnus : One who has attended or has graduated from a particular school




Flash card # 21




  • Amateur : A person who cultivates any study or art without pursuing it Professionally

  • Amazing : Causing astonishment

  • Ambassador : An official messenger and representative

  • Ambiguities : The qualities or states of being doubtful or uncertain, especially from obscurity or indistinctness

  • Ambiguous : Open to more than one interpretation; uncertain; equivocal




Flash card # 22




  • Ambition : A desire for activity or exertion; a desire to achieve a particular end

  • Ambivalent : Simultaneously feeling opposing feelings, such as love and hate

  • Amenable : Readily brought to yield, submit, or cooperate

  • Amicability : Having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness

  • Amicable : Friendly; peaceable; kind; harmonious




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  1. asureshwaran saidSun, 04 Jan 2009 04:14:06 -0000 ( Link )

    good lesson with neat organisation

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  2. gospel saidFri, 30 Jan 2009 09:45:05 -0000 ( Link )

    good lesson

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  3. meet5 saidSun, 13 Sep 2009 13:54:28 -0000 ( Link )

    It is a very good way to make a person, alienated with the good vocabulary, amicable with vocab-building process. I suppose I have used the words correctly.

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  4. deepudeshi saidThu, 22 Oct 2009 17:13:38 -0000 ( Link )

    good 1.. though i feel havin one word on a card helps more than five or ten on a card…

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