13th Flashcards

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Abash

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To embarrass or make ashamed

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Abase

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To lower in office or esteem

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Avarice

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An excessive desire for wealth

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Blatant

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Completely obvious or vulgarly conspicuous; unpleasantly loud especially in a vulgar or offensive manner

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Blush

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To become red in the face from shame or nervousness

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Brash

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Hasty and lacking in regard for consequences

Ant: deliberate

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Chary

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Very cautuous; slow to give

Ant: bold

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Charitableness

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Ant: rancor

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Concede

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To accept that something is true; to yield

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Cursory

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Superficial; hasty; careless

Ant: fastidious

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Dearth

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A lack or shortage of supply, especially of food

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Diaphanous

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Characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through

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Discharge

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To release from an obligation or fron employment; to dismiss; to send out of shoot

Ant: induct

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Disclosure

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The exposure of revelation of something that was hidden or secret

Ant: stealth

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Discord

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Conflict or a lack of agreement

Ant: rapport

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Drab

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Dull in appearance; cheerless

Ant: resplendence

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Elation

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Being full of pride or joy

Ant: sullenness

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Enact

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To make or pass a law; to act out

Ant: rescind

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Enscounce

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To settle in a comfortable and secure place; to conceal in a secure place

Ant: unsettle

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Extrovert

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An gregarious and social person

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Forbear

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To refrain from; to hold back from ; to be patient

Syn: forgo

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Fulsome

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Excessively complimentry or flattering; offensive

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Graceful and light

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Ant: ponderous

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Gobble

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To eat greedily and quickly

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Hearten
To give courage or sprit to
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Irascible
Characterized by a tendency toward anger and a hot temper
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Liability
A legal or pecuniary oligation; a drawback or disadvantage Ex) exempt their liabilities Ant: asset
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Measly
Despicably small; meager
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Mince
To chop or cut into little pieces; to walk with very short steps or with exaggerated primness
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Oust
To kick out of force out of a position They iusted the incumbent
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Palmy
Prosperous and profitable
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Penchant
A special fondness or continued inclination I have a penchant for percussion instruments. Ant: aversion
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Prescience
Ant: myopia
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Quarry
To extract by long, careful searching An open pit from which vuilding stone, limestone, or slate are acquired; a productive source
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Quash
To extinguish forcibly and completely She was slain in his attempt to quash the revolt. Ant: engender
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Reluctant
Hesitating or unwilling Ant: alacrity
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Scarce
Ant: superfluous
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Shard (spelling!!)
A piece of broken pottery, glass, or metal
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Snarl
To make tangle and intertwined Ant: disentangle
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Spartan
A person with self-discipline and courage Autstere or simple Ant: luxuruous
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Spate
A sudden outburst or flood; large amount or number Ex) He receives a spate of letters everyday. Ant: dearth
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Stasis
A state of balance or motionlessnes | Without motility
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Weary
Fatigued or exhuasted in strength Ant: vivid