21/8/2019 Flashcards
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Mortify
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Annoy
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Intently
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Actively
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Ebullience
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Happiness
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Misunderstood
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Wrongly understood
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Amateur
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Incompetent
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Implication
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Side effect
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Benefactor
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Provider
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Rational
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Use the adjective rational to describe people or ideas that operate according to logic or reason. While your brother has an artistic temperament, you have a rational one.
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Strain
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Exhaust
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Credulity
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Acceptance
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Deprecate
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Find unacceptable
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Recruit
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Enroll
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Ouster
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Removal
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Establishment
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Finding
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Senility
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The condition of being senile
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Affirm
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Declare
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Listless
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Stupid
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Combative
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Belligerent
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Spasmodic
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On again off again
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Imperturbability
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Calmness
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Conviction
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Belief
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Avert
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Avoid
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Invariably
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Always
Permanently
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Dissenting
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Negative
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Dissent
Disagree
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Disseminate
Broadcast
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Berate
A strong verb for harshly cutting someone down with words is berate. "He didn't just correct the cashier who gave him the wrong change, he started to berate her, calling her names in front of the whole store."
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Proclaim
Declare
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Doomed
Hopeless
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Eviscerate
To remove the internal organs
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Conjure up
Remember
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Dire
Serious
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Incomprehension
Confusion
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Structural
Relating to or forming part of the structure of a building or other item
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Preposterous
Fool
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Plausible
Credible
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Unravel
However tempting, don't pull that straggly thread hanging from your sleeve. You'll just unravel, or totally undo, your hand-knitted sweater.
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Intrinsic
Innate
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Embellish
Adorn
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Abolish
Cancel
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Obliterate
Subvert
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Endure
Learn to live with
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Perplexing
Complex
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Absentee
Missing
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Notorious
Wicked
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Prospect
Possibility
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Prospective
Potential
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Prospectus
Brochure
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Prospector
A person who explores or prospects an area in search of mineral deposits, such as gold
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Torment
Pain in the neck
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Insinuation
Hint
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Insinuate
To convey an idea indirectly
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Trace
A mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something
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Inconsolable
Heartbroken
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Solemn
Serious or glum
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advertent
With eyes like a hawk
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Inadvertent
Accidental
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Replicate
To make or be an exact copy of
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Adolescence
The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult
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Strategy
A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim
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Retain
Keep
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Amass
Collect
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Regulate
Control
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Enterprise
Big idea
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Federal
Regional
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Consequential
Important or significant
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Jeopardy
Pain in the neck
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Disregard
The action or state of paying no attention to something
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Remotely
In any way, any extent or any degree
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Obscure
Not discovered or known about
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Inconspicuously
So as not to attract attention or appear unusual or out of the ordinary
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Cajole
To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises
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Indictment
An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury
