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101 Words Part 3 Flashcards

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1
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Solvent

A

Able to pay off debts

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Poor cluster

A 
Indigent
Insolvent
Impoverished
Penurious
Destitute
Parsimonious
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Impervious

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Not penetrable, unresponsive

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Improvident

A

Thriftless

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Inadvertence

A

Carelessness, oversight

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Ingratiate

A

Become popular with

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Harmful cluster

A 
Deleterious
Detrimental
Pernicious
Baneful
Baleful
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Irascible

A

Irritable, easily angered

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Jocund

A

Funny, merry

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Judicious

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Wise, determined by sound judgement

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Kleptomaniac

A

Person with compulsive desire to steal

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Knoll

A

Small hill

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Maudlin

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Effusively sentimental

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Mawkish

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Excessively sentimental

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Treacle

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Molasses

17
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Mendacious

A

False, lying

18
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Nadir

A

Low point

19
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Naïveté

A

Quality of being unsophisticated

20
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Obdurate

A

Stubborn

21
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Stubborn cluster

A

Intransigent
Calcitrant
Obstinate

22
Q

Odious

A

Hateful

23
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Onerous

A

Burdensome

Ex: onerous duties

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Overt

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Obvious

25
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Fetid

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Noisome, smelly

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Noisome

A

Harmful, unwholesome
Or
Smelly

27
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Occult

A

Hard to understand

28
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Esoteric

A

Difficult to understand, know to only a few people

29
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Occult cluster

A 
Esoteric
Abstruse 
Ex: abstruse theory
Abstract
Recondite
Ex: a recondite treaty
30
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Ossify

A

Become stagnant

31
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Tepid

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Lukewarm

32
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Torpid

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Yawning, tired

33
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Impecunious

A

Poor

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