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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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14
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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

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To give courage or sprit to

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Irascible

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Characterized by a tendency toward anger and a hot temper

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Liability

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A legal or pecuniary oligation; a drawback or disadvantage
Ex) exempt their liabilities
Ant: asset

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Measly

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Despicably small; meager

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Mince

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To chop or cut into little pieces; to walk with very short steps or with exaggerated primness

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Oust

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To kick out of force out of a position

They iusted the incumbent

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Palmy

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Prosperous and profitable

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Penchant

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A special fondness or continued inclination
I have a penchant for percussion instruments.

Ant: aversion

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Prescience

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Ant: myopia

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Quarry

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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

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To extinguish forcibly and completely

She was slain in his attempt to quash the revolt.

Ant: engender

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Reluctant

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Hesitating or unwilling

Ant: alacrity

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Scarce

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Ant: superfluous

37
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Shard (spelling!!)

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A piece of broken pottery, glass, or metal

38
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Snarl

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To make tangle and intertwined

Ant: disentangle

39
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Spartan

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A person with self-discipline and courage

Autstere or simple

Ant: luxuruous

40
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Spate

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A sudden outburst or flood; large amount or number

Ex) He receives a spate of letters everyday.

Ant: dearth

41
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Stasis

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A state of balance or motionlessnes

Without motility

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Weary

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Fatigued or exhuasted in strength

Ant: vivid

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