301-400 Flashcards
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Precocious
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Very gifted, maturing early
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Revelry
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Fun, merriment (revel= to take pleasure in)
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Perfunctory
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Listless, hastily, done without attention
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Elegy
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A poem lamenting the dead
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Peruse
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To read thoroughly
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Prodigious
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Huge in size
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Ponderous
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Having great weight, unwieldy, boring
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Proliferate
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To increase, to grow rapidly
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Parsimonious
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Cheap, stingy
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Platitude
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A commonplace remark
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Postulate
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To lay down as self-evident, to assert
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Pulchritude
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Beauty
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Cursory
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Hastily, not detailed, careless
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Abstruse
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Difficult to understand, obscure
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Nefarious
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Wicked
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Pariah
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A social outcast
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Frenetic
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Frenzied
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Perspicacious
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Acutely perceptive
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Pugilist
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A fighter
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Profligate
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A wasteful, immoral person
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Peremptory
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Decisive
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Chimerical
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Not real, imaginary
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Palpable
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Obvious, able to be touched
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Preclude
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To prevent from happening
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Pithy
Brief, not saying much
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Compunction
Sorrow and guilt for something
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Circumspect
Cautious, weary
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Castigate
To rebuke severely
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Ribald
Coarse, crude, offensive
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Recondite
Hidden, deep
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Alacricity
Swiftness
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Expedient
Practical, advantageous
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Specious
A seemingly plausible argument that is invalid
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Salient
Important, noticeable
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Saternine
Gloomy
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Dissembler
One who lies or fakes
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Seraphic
Angelic
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Jurisprudence
The study of law
