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100 Medium Repeat Offenders Flashcards

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Acute

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Sharp

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Abhor

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To hate; to regard as horrible

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Adept

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Highly skilled

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Adroit

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Highly skilled, especially with one’s hands

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Affable

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Friendly

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Agile

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Moving quickly and lightly

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Apathy

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An absence of emotion or enthusiasm

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Archaic

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So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

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Ardor

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Intense passion

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Arid

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Dry; lacking rainfall

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Belligerent

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Characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

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Cajole

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To influence by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

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Caustic

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Burning or stinging

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Cerebral

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Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

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Concession

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The act of giving in or the actual thing that was given up

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Confound

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To confuse

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Conspicuous

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Obvious

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Conspire

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To work together, often in secret, to commit wrongful behavior

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Consummate

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Perfect and complete

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Cordial

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Friendly and polite

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Curtail

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To cut short of restrict

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Daunt

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To cause to lose courage

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Debilitate

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To make weak

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Decimate

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To destroy a large portion of

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Delineate
To outline
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Despondent
Feeling or expressing hopelessness
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Destitute
Completely wanting or lacking
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Discord
Disagreement
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Dissent
To express a difference of opinion
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Docile
Easily taught or managed
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Doctrine
A belief that is taught, usually by a church of government
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Earnest
Serious, sincere
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Effusive
Excessive enthusiasm or emotion
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Embroil
To bring into an argument or negative situation
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Erratic
Unpredictable or inconsistent
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Expedient
Serving a purpose or personal interest
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Extraneous
Not relevant or essential
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Fallacy
A false idea
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Flippant
Disrespectful; lacking seriousness
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Florid
Excessively decorated; flowery
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Flourish
To do well or grow well
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Formidable
Causing fear due to powerful strength
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Frivolous
Not serious; silly
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Furtive
Sneaky
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Genial
Polite and friendly
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Guile
Skillful deception
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Imperceptible
Difficult or impossible to sense
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Indictment
An accusation of wrongdoing
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Insular
Narrow-minded; isolated
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Inundate
To flood
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Circumvent
To go around; to avoid
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Itinerant
Traveling from place to place to work
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Jaded
Having become dull or worn out from overexposure
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Laud
To praise, glorify, or honor
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Lavish
Very generous or extravagant
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Lucid
Clear; easy to understand
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Malice
A desire to make others suffer
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Mitigate
To make less intense or severe
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Monotony
Tiresome routine; lack of variety
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Nuance
A subtle difference
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Obstinate
Extremely stubborn
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Ominous
Threatening or foreshadowing evil
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Oration
A formal speech
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Ornate
Highly decorated
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Overt
Open and observable; not secret or hidden
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Paradox
A statement that contradicts itself but nevertheless may still be true
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Paragon
A perfect example
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Parody
A humous imitation
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Patronize
To treat someone as if they are not intelligent or important
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Penchant
A strong liking
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Penitent
Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
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Peril
Danger
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Pervasive
Spreading or spread throughout
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Placid
Calm
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Pliant
Capable of being bent or capable of being influenced
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Precipitate
To bring about abruptly
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Prolific
Highly productive
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Propensity
A natural tendency
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Raze
To tear down
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Rebuke
To sharply criticize or reprimand
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Remiss
Careless and neglectful
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Reproach
To blame; to express criticism towards
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Sanction
To approve
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Scoff
To laugh at and show open disrespect
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Solemn
Intensely serious
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Stagnant
Not moving, flowing, or progressing
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Stymie
To stump or hinder
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Subversive
Supporting the overthrowing of a government
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Sully
To make dirty or impure
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Tact
Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense
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Tactile
Having to do with the sense of touch
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Transcend
To rise above or exceed the limits
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Transient
Passing quickly or staying briefly
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Trite
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
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Vacillate
To waver or move back and forth
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Vanquish
To defeat
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Verbose
Using or containing too many words
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Vicarious
Experienced through another person
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Wane
To grow smaller
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Wistful
Expressing longing or yearning

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