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

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To outline

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Despondent

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Feeling or expressing hopelessness

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Destitute

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Completely wanting or lacking

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Discord

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Disagreement

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Dissent

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To express a difference of opinion

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Docile

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Easily taught or managed

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Doctrine

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A belief that is taught, usually by a church of government

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Earnest

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Serious, sincere

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Effusive

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Excessive enthusiasm or emotion

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Embroil

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To bring into an argument or negative situation

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Erratic

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Unpredictable or inconsistent

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Expedient

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Serving a purpose or personal interest

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Extraneous

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Not relevant or essential

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Fallacy

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A false idea

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Flippant

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Disrespectful; lacking seriousness

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Florid

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Excessively decorated; flowery

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Flourish

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To do well or grow well

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Formidable

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Causing fear due to powerful strength

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Frivolous

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Not serious; silly

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Furtive

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Sneaky

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Genial

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Polite and friendly

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Guile

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Skillful deception

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Imperceptible

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Difficult or impossible to sense

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Indictment

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An accusation of wrongdoing

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Insular

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Narrow-minded; isolated

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Inundate

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To flood

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Circumvent

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To go around; to avoid

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Itinerant

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Traveling from place to place to work

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Jaded

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Having become dull or worn out from overexposure

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Laud

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To praise, glorify, or honor

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Lavish

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Very generous or extravagant

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Lucid

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Clear; easy to understand

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Malice

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A desire to make others suffer

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Mitigate

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To make less intense or severe

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Monotony

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Tiresome routine; lack of variety

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Nuance

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A subtle difference

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Obstinate

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Extremely stubborn

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Ominous

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Threatening or foreshadowing evil

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Oration

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A formal speech

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Ornate

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Highly decorated

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Overt

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Open and observable; not secret or hidden

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Paradox

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A statement that contradicts itself but nevertheless may still be true

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Paragon

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A perfect example

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Parody

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A humous imitation

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Patronize

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To treat someone as if they are not intelligent or important

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Penchant

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A strong liking

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Penitent

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Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds

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Peril

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Danger

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Pervasive

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Spreading or spread throughout

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Placid

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Calm

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Pliant

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Capable of being bent or capable of being influenced

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Precipitate

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To bring about abruptly

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Prolific

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Highly productive

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Propensity

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A natural tendency

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Raze

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To tear down

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Rebuke

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To sharply criticize or reprimand

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Remiss

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Careless and neglectful

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Reproach

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To blame; to express criticism towards

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Sanction

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To approve

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Scoff

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To laugh at and show open disrespect

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Solemn

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Intensely serious

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Stagnant

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Not moving, flowing, or progressing

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Stymie

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To stump or hinder

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Subversive

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Supporting the overthrowing of a government

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Sully

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To make dirty or impure

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Tact

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Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense

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Tactile

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Having to do with the sense of touch

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Transcend

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To rise above or exceed the limits

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Transient

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Passing quickly or staying briefly

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Trite

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Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

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Vacillate

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To waver or move back and forth

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Vanquish

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To defeat

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Verbose

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Using or containing too many words

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Vicarious

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Experienced through another person

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Wane

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To grow smaller

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Wistful

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Expressing longing or yearning