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1500 Essential (600-900) Flashcards

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intransigence

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unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability

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intransigent

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uncompromising

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intrepid

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fearless brave undaunted

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introspection

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examining one’s own thoughts and feelings

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inundate

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flood cover by overflowing

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inured

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accustomed to adapted

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invective

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abusive language curses

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inveigh

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to attack verbally denounce deprecate

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inveterate

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deep-rooted. long-established

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invincible

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too strong to be defeated

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involute

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complex

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irascible

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irritable easily angered

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irate

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angry

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ire

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anger

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irksome

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tiresome

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irresolute

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hesitating undecided

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irrevocable

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final and unalterable

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itinerate

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to travel from place to place to peregrinate

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jabber

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talk excitedly utter rapidly

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jibe

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gibe make fun of

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jocular

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meant as a joke

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judicious

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sound in judgment wise

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knit

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draw together unite firmly

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labyrinthine

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to entangle the state of affairs

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lachrymose

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causing tears tearful

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lackluster

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(of eyes) dull

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lament

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show feel great sorrow

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lassitude

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weariness tiredness

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latent

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present but not yet active developed or visible

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laudatory

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expressing or giving praise

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lavish

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giving or producing freely liberally or generously

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legacy

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smth handed down from ancestors

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levee

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formal reception/embankment

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levity

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lack of seriousness

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libel

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statement that damages reputation

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liberality

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free giving generosity

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libertine

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immoral person

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lien

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legal claim until a debt on it is repaid

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limn

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paint portray

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limp

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lacking strength walking unevenly

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lionize

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treat as a famous person

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lithe

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bending twisting

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loll

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rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog’s tongue)

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lope

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move along with long strides

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loquacious

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talkative garrulous

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lucubrate

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write in scholarly fashion

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luculent

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easily understood lucid clear

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lugubrious

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mournful excessively sad

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lull

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become quiet or less active

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lumber

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move in a clumsy/noisy way

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luminary

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star light-giving body

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lurk

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be out of view ready to attack

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lustrous

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being bright polished

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macabre

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gruesome suggesting death

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macerate

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make or become soft by soaking in water

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machination

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plot scheme (esp. evil)

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maladroit

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tactless clumsy

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malapropism

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misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)

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malevolence

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wishing to do evil

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malign

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injurious speak ill of smb tell lie

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malinger

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to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty

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malleable

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yielding easily shaped moldable adapting

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manacle

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chains for the hands or feet

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massacre

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cruel killing of a large number of people

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matriculation

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be admitted enter a university as a student

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maudlin

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sentimental in a silly or tearful way

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maul

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hurt by rough handling

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maverick

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rebel nonconformist

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mellifluous

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sweetly flowing

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mendacity

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dishonesty

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mendicant

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a beggar

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mercurial

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quick changeable in character fleeting

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meretricious

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attractive on the surface but of little value

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mesmerize

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hypnotize

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meticulous

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giving great attention to details

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mettle

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quality of endurance or courage

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mettlesome

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courageous high-spirited

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middling

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fairly good but not very good

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minatory

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menacing threatening

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mince

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pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize

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misanthrope

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person who hates mankind

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mischievous

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harmful causing mischief

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miser

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person who loves wealth and spends little

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misogynist

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one who hates women/females

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moderation

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quality of being limited not extreme

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mollify

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make calmer or quieter

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molt

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moult lose hair feathers before new growing

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morbid

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diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)

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morose

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ill-tempered unsocial

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muffler

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cloth worn round the neck/silencer

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multifarious

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varied motley greatly diversified

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mundane

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worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday

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myriad

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very great number

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nadir

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lowest weakest point

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nascent

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coming into existence emerging

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nebulous

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cloud-like hazy vague indistinct

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negligent

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taking too little care

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neophyte

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person who has been converted to a belief

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nexus

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a connection tie or link

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nibble

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show some inclination to accept (an offer)

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noisome

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offensive disgusting (smell)

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nonchalant

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not having interest

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nonplused

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greatly surprised

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nostrum

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a quack remedy an untested cure

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noxious

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harmful

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nugatory

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trifling/worthless

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obdurate

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hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible

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obfuscate

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to darken make obscure muddle

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oblivious

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unaware having no memory

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obloquy

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abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation

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obsequious

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too eager to obey or serve

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obstreperous

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noisy loud

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obtain

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to be established accepted or customary

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obtrusive

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projecting prominent undesirably noticeable

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obtuse

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blunt/stupid

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obviate

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to make unnecessary get rid of

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occluded

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blocked up

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odious

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repulsive hateful

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odium

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contempt dislike aversion

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odor

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smell favor reputation

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officious

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too eager or ready to help offer advice

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ominous

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threatening

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onerous

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needing effort burdensome

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opaqueness

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dullness/not allowing light to pass through

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opprobrious

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showing scorn or reproach

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ossify

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to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea

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ostensible

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seeming appearing as such professed

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ostentation

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display to obtain admiration or envy

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ostracism

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shut out from society refuse to meet talk

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overhaul

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examine thoroughly to learn about the condition

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overweening

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presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk

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paean

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song of praise or triumph

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palate

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roof of the mouth sense of taste

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palatial

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magnificent

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palliate

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palpability

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can be felt touched understood

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palpitate

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tremble beat rapidly and irregularly

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panegyric

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formal praise eulogy

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paradigm

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a model example or pattern

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parenthesis

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sentence within another one smth separated

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pariah

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an outcast a rejected and despised person

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parsimonious

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too economical miserly

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partisan

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one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced

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patron

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regular customer person who gives support

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paucity

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scarcity a lacking of

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peccadillo

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small sin small weakness in one’s character

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pedantic

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bookish showing off learning

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pedestrian

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commonplace trite unremarkable

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pellucid

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transparent easy to understand

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penchant

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strong inclination a liking

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penitent

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feeling or showing regret

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penurious

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poor/stingy

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penury

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extreme poverty

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peregrination

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traveling about wandering

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peremptory

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urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate

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perfidious

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treacherous faithless

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perfidy

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treachery breaking of faith

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perfunctory

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done as a duty without care

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perilous

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dangerous

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peripatetic

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wandering

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perish

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be destroyed decay

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perjury

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willful FALSE statement unlawful act

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permeate

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spread into every part of

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pernicious

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harmful injurious

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perpetrate

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be guilty commit (a crime)

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personable

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pleasing in appearance attractive

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perspicacity

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quick judging and understanding

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pertain

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belong as a part have reference

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pest

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destructive thing or a person who is nuisance

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petrified

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taken away power (to think feel act)

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petrify

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to make hard rocklike

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petrous

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like a rock hard stony

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petulant

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unreasonably impatient

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philistine

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a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge

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phlegmatic

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calm sluggish temperament unemotional

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picaresque

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involving clever rogues or adventurers

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pied

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of mixed colors

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pinch

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be too tight take between the thumb and finger

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pine

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waste away through sorrow or illness

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pious

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dutiful to parents devoted to religion

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piquant

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agreeably pungent stimulating

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pique

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hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)

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pitfall

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covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger

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pith

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essential part force soft liquid substance

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pivotal

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of great importance (others depend on it)

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placate

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soothe pacify calm

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plaintive

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mournful melancholy sorrowful

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plaque

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flat metal on a wall as a memorial

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platitude

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a trite or banal statement unoriginality

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plea

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request

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plead

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address a court of law as an advocate

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plethora

A

glut

193
Q

pliant

A

pliable easily bent shaped or twisted

194
Q

plod

A

continue doing smth without resting

195
Q

pluck

A

pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)

196
Q

plumb

A

get to the root of

197
Q

plummet

A

fall plunge steeply

198
Q

plunge

A

move quickly suddenly and with force

199
Q

poignant

A

deeply moving keen

200
Q

poncho

A

large piece of cloth

201
Q

ponderous

A

heavy bulky dull

202
Q

portent

A

omen marvelous threatening

203
Q

precarious

A

uncertain risky dangerous

204
Q

precepts

A

rules establishing standards of conduct

205
Q

preclude

A

prevent make impossible

206
Q

precursory

A

preliminary anticipating

207
Q

predilection

A

special liking mental preference

208
Q

predominate

A

have more power than others

209
Q

preen

A

tidy/show self-satisfaction

210
Q

premature

A

doing or happening smth before the right time

211
Q

preponderance

A

greatness in number strength weight

212
Q

presage

A

warning sign

213
Q

presumption

A

arrogance

214
Q

preternatural

A

not normal or usual

215
Q

prevalent

A

common

216
Q

prevaricate

A

to equivocate to stray from the truth

217
Q

prim

A

neat formal

218
Q

pristine

A

primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated

219
Q

probity

A

uprightness incorruptibility principle

220
Q

proclivity

A

inclination

221
Q

procrastination

A

keeping on putting off

222
Q

prodigal

A

wasteful reckless with money

223
Q

prodigious

A

enormous wonderful

224
Q

profane

A

worldly having contempt for God

225
Q

profligacy

A

shameless immorality

226
Q

profligate

A

wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant

227
Q

profundity

A

depth

228
Q

profuse

A

abundant/lavish

229
Q

proliferate

A

grow reproduce by rapid multification

230
Q

prolix

A

tiring because too long

231
Q

prone

A

prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)

232
Q

propagation

A

increasing the number spreading extending

233
Q

propinquity

A

nearness in time or place affinity of nature

234
Q

propitiatory

A

conciliatory appeasing mitigating

235
Q

propitious

A

auspicious presenting favorable circumstances

236
Q

prosaic

A

everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian

237
Q

proscribe

A

denounce as dangerous

238
Q

protracted

A

prolonged

239
Q

provident

A

frugal looking to the future

240
Q

provisional

A

of the present time only

241
Q

provoke

A

make angry vax

242
Q

prudence

A

careful forethought

243
Q

prudish

A

easily shocked excessively modest

244
Q

prune

A

dried plum silly person

245
Q

pry

A

get smth inquire too curiously

246
Q

pucker

A

wrinkle

247
Q

pugnacious

A

fond of in the habit of fighting

248
Q

puissance

A

strength

249
Q

punctilious

A

precise paying attention to trivialities

250
Q

pundit

A

pedant authority on a subject

251
Q

pungency

A

sharpness stinging quality

252
Q

purvey

A

provide supply

253
Q

pusillanimous

A

cowardly craven

254
Q

putrefaction

A

becoming rotten

255
Q

pyre

A

large pile of wood for burning

256
Q

quack

A

person dishonestly claiming to smth

257
Q

quaff

A

drink deeply

258
Q

quail

A

lose courage turn frightened

259
Q

qualm

A

feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness

260
Q

quandary

A

state of doubt or perplexity

261
Q

quell

A

suppress subdue

262
Q

quibble

A

try to avoid by sophistication

263
Q

quiescence

A

state of being passive/motionless

264
Q

quiescent

A

at rest dormant torpid

265
Q

quirk

A

habit or action peculiar to smb or smth

266
Q

quixotic

A

generous unselfish

267
Q

quotidian

A

banal everyday

268
Q

rabble

A

mob crowd the lower classes of populace

269
Q

raconteur

A

person who tells anecdotes

270
Q

raffish

A

low vulgar base tawdry

271
Q

ramify

A

to be divided or subdivided to branch out

272
Q

rancorous

A

feeling bitterness spitefulness

273
Q

rant

A

use extravagant language

274
Q

rapacious

A

greedy (esp for money)

275
Q

rarefy

A

to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine

276
Q

rave

A

act with excessive enthusiasm

277
Q

reactionary

A

opposing progress

278
Q

rebuff

A

snub

279
Q

recalcitrant

A

disobedient

280
Q

recant

A

take back as being FALSE give up

281
Q

recast

A

cast or fashion anew

282
Q

recidivism

A

relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior

283
Q

reciprocity

A

granting of privileges in return for similar

284
Q

recitals

A

a number of performance of music

285
Q

recluse

A

person who lives alone and avoids people

286
Q

recompense

A

make payment to reward punish

287
Q

reconcile

A

settle a quarrel restore peace

288
Q

recondite

A

little known abstruse

289
Q

recreancy

A

cowardice a cowardly giving up

290
Q

recuperate

A

become strong after illness loss exhaustion

291
Q

redeem

A

get back by payment compensate

292
Q

redoubtable

A

formidable causing fear

293
Q

refine

A

make or become pure cultural

294
Q

refractory

A

stubborn unmanageable untractable

295
Q

refulgent

A

shining brilliant

296
Q

regale

A

to delight or entertain to feast

297
Q

regicide

A

crime of killing a king

298
Q

reiterate

A

say or do again several times

299
Q

rejuvenation

A

becoming young in nature or appearance

300
Q

relapse

A

fall back again

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