13&14 Flashcards

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Apathy

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A lack if concern or feeling, indifference

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Caricature

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A portrayal where features are distorted, a parody

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Cordial

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Courteous and gracious, friendly, warm

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Cosmopolitan

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Dealing with the whole world

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Deplore

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To regret deeply or strongly, to feel or to express deep grief for

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Discrepant

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Disagreeing, inconsistent

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Ecstasy

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Extreme happiness

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Empathy

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Understanding or identification with another’s feelings or situation

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Equivocal

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Ambiguous, usually intended to mislead

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Expeditious

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Done with speed and efficiency

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12
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Galvanize

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To simulate or to excite as if by an electric shock

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13
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Implacable

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Incapable of being appeased

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Inimitable

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Not able to be imitated

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Mutability

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The degree to which something is subject and likely to change

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Odious

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Deserving hate or contempt

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Parochial

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Limited in range or scope, narrow, provincial

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Penchant

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A strong inclination

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Ponderous

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Very heavy, unwieldy from weight

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Protract

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To prolong

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Replete

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Filled to capacity, abundantly supplied

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Soporific

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Something that tends to cause sleep and to dill awareness or alertness

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Strident

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Loud and harsh sounding

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Treachery

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Violation of faith, betrayal of trust, treason

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Adulterate

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To make impure by adding lesser substances, to corrupt

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Animosity

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Harsh feelings, enmity, resentment, hatred

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Apocryphal

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Of doubtful origin or authenticity, not genuine

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Avarice

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Greed for wealth

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Coalesce

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To merge, to fuse, to join, or to unite

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Collaborate

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To work together

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Cryptic

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Mysterious, secret

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Desultory

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Jumping around, aimless, random

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Dissipation

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Wasteful spending, squandering

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Edifying

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Instructing and improving spiritually or morally

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Equivocate

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To attempt to lie, to mislead, or to hide the truth

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Espousing

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Marrying, giving one’s loyalty, adopting or embracing a cause

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Hedonist

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One who seeks pleasure as the sole aim in life

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Indefatigable

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Tireless, incapable of being fatigued

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Interminable

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Having or seeming to have no end, wearisomely protracted

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Naive

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Unsophisticated, inexperienced

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Parody

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Humorous or ridiculous imitation

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Peripheral

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On the edge, not important

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Portent

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A sign or forewarning

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Prodigious

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Extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree, great in size, enormous

45
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Profane

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Showing contempt toward sacred things

46
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Respite

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A rest, a delay, a period of relief

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Sordid

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Filthy, foul

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Surfeited

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Fed or supplied to excess

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Trifling

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Not significant, frivolous

50
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Allure

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To influence, sway, or entice with some tempting appeal