22 Flashcards by Shehu Abdulqudus | Brainscape

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Patois

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Dialect of a community

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Disconcerted

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Disturb the composure of something

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Wheedle

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Flattery to persuade someone to do something

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Freewheeling

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Disregard of rules or conventions

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Verdant

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Green with grass

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Unremitting

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Relentless

Incessant

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Frisson

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Strong feeling of excitement or fear

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Maven

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An expert

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Virtuoso

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A person highly skilled in music or art

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Fabulist

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A liar

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Quibblers

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Objection or criticism

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Culling

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Reduce the population by selective killing

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Sage

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Profound wisdom

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Repartee

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Quick witty comments or replies

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Doggerel

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Words that are badly written

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Doughty

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Brave and persistent

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Penchant

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A strong or habitual liking for something

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Kinship

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Relationships

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Impetuous

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Acting or done quickly without care

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Heady

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Intoxicating

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Rapacious

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Aggressively greedy

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Odium

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General hatred directed toward someone

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Legerdemain

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Deception

Trickery

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Recalcitrant

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Stubborn uncooperative attitude towards authority

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Monolithic

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Large powerful and intractably indivisible

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Desiccation

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Remove moisture

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Pleonasm

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The use of words than necessary

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Scintilla

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A tiny trace or spark of a quality

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Vestige

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A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer existing

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Latency

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State of existing but not yet developed

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Minatory

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Conveying threat

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Disincentive

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A factor that discourages people from doing something

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Stratified

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Arrange or classify