2nd Semester Honors 10 Flashcards by shayla Jeffer | Brainscape

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Absolve

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Clear from blame or guilt

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Abstemious

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Characterized by abstinence, moderate, sparing

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Accentuate

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To emphasize, place stress on

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Caricature

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Exaggerated features

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Censurable

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Deserving of blame or correction

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Contingent

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Likely but not certain to happen,

Representative

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Corrobate

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To confirm, make certain

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Denizen

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Resident

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Discursive

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Passing aimlessly from one subject to another, rambling, roving

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Disseminate

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To scatter widely

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Dowdy

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Poorly dressed shabby, lacking good taste

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Florid

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Highly colored showy

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Foist

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To impose by fraud, to pass off as worthy or genuine

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Gauche

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Awkward, lacking in social graces

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Heresy

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An opinion different from accepted belief

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Inculcate

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Impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently

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Palpable

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Easily seen or heard or recognized

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Perceptive

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Sympathetic insight or understanding

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Pernicious

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Deadly fatal

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Quail

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Shrink back in fear

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Salient

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Leaping forward, standing out

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Satiate

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Satisfy

Full

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Clangor

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Loud ringing

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Contiguous

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Side by side touching

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Cupidity

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Desire, greed

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Deleterious

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Harmful, injurious

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Extentuate

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To lessen seriousness by making excuses

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Exude

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To ooze out

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Implicit

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Implied, without doubt

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Insicive

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Penetrate, sharp keen

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Ostentatious

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Pretentious display, showy

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Paragon

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Model of excellence or perfection

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Politic

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Prudent, shrewdly conceived or developed,artful

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Preeminent

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Superior, prominent

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Prosaic

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Dull, ordinary, lacking in distinction

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Sear

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To harden or make unfeeling

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Sanctimonious

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Making a show of virtue, pious

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Specious

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Deceptive, apparently good but lacking real merit

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Scintillating

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Sparkling, twinkling

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Winsome

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Charming attractive

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Accrue

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To grow or accumulate

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Antediluvian

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Ancient or old

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Bedlam

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Confusion or uproar

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Dun

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Demand payment of debt

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Efficacious

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Effective showing results

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Equanimity

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Calmness composure

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Fortuitous

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Accidental happening by chance

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Gist

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Main point essence

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Imperious

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Overbearing, hostile

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Invective

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Abusive

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Motley

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Showing diversity

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Munificent

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Generous lavish

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Provocative

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Something that stimulates

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Recondite

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Exceeding ordinary knowledge

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Reprobate

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Wicked or corrupt

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Sedentary

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Remaining in one place

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Amenable

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Willing to follow advice

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Berate

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Scold sharply

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Carnage

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Large scale slaughter or loss of life

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Credulous

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Too ready to believe

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Criterion

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A rule, test, standard for judgement

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Deplete

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Diminish greatly

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Expatiate

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To expand on

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Extraneous

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Coming from the outside, foreign

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Inception

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The beginning, start

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Infirmity

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Ailment

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Jejune

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Immature

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Obdurate

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Stubborn unyielding

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Ostensible

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Appearing to be true or actual

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Potpourri

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Collection of diverse items

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Precocious

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Unusually early development

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Providential

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Divine intervention, good luck

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Sadistic

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Excessively cruel

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Sententious

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Self-righteous, pithy

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Supplicate

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Beg earnestly and humbly

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Surfeit

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Overindulgence

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Tortuous

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Twisted, crooked, highly complex, devious

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Turgid

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Swollen bloated, filled to excess, over decorated in language