1-200 Flashcards

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Dilatory

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Tending to procrastinate or delay

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Bombastic

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Using pompous language

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Lucid

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Clear

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Surreptitious

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Secretive

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Pejorative

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With unpleasant connotation

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Superfluous

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Extra unnecessary

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Impetuous

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Rash, impulsive

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Reverent

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Showing respect

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Ingenuous

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Naïve, frank

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Disingenuous

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Sophisticated, not naive

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Enervate

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To weaken, to sap

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Ubiquitous

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Everywhere, omnipresent

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Dilettante

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A dabbler in the arts, an amateur

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Disseminate

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To publish or to make known, to scatter

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Desultory

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Aimless, without purpose

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Placid

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Calm

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Caustic

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Burning, severe

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Extenuating

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Serving to make something seem less serious

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Erudite

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Scholarly

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Expiate

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To try and make up for, to atone

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Epicurean

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One who lives for pleasure

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Soporific

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Causing sleep

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Efface

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To destroy, to wipe out

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Extol

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To praise

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Vicarious

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Obtained through experience of another

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Charlatan

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An imposter

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Coalesce

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To join in union

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Sanguine

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Cheerfully optimistic

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Sanguinary

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Bloody

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Effusion

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An outpouring

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Ascetic

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One who practices self-denial

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Credulous

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Gullible

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Insipid

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Tasteless, bland, dull

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Arcane

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Mysterious

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Dolorous

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Sorrowful

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Forensic

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Characteristics of law, court, or public debate

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Trepidation

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Fear

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Gainsay

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To deny, to contradict

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Obdurate

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Stubborn

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Intransigent

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Stubborn

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Ebullient

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Boiling with optimism, exuberant

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Laconic

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Brief, not saying much