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3.1 Flashcards

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Repertoire
Her cooking repertoire includes a to z
Her repertoire of romcoms is unmatched
My repertoire of jokes is remarkable

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Collection

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Putrid

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Unpleasant

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Ratcheting

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Rise or fall

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Munificent

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Generous

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Irresolute

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Indecisive

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Impunity

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Immunity

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Gaudy

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Loud jhataak garish

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Rigour
Your business lacks rigour

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Quality of being thorough and careful

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Peruse

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Read

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Harbinger

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Sign

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Imperceptible

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Unnoticeable

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Marvel

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Wonder

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Inveigled

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Cajoled

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Vacuous

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Stupid mindless

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Peckish

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Hungry

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Palaver
It seems like too much of a palaver to shop offline
It’s too much of a palaver to get up
Cooking is too much of a palaver

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Fuss
Task

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Bite the bullet
Its time to bite the bullet and save money
It’s time to bite the bullet and be honest with him

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Get over it

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Cumbersome

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Complicated

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Eschew
She likes to eschew social gatherings
He tends to eschew drama
I try to eschew negativity

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Abstain from

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Betide
Not knowing what would betide

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Happen

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Bemoan

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Complain about

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Deplore

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Regret

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Disconsolate

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Sad// Very unhappy and unable to be comforted

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Delectation

offer up their life for public delectation

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Enjoyment

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Factitious

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Fake

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Proliferation

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Rapid increase

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Reproach

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Scold/disapprove

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Solemn

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Sincere

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Garrulous
She’s always been a bit garrulous

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Talk a lot about trifling things

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Contumacious/ renunciatory
It’s hard to have a conversation with someone so contimacious
His contumacious attitude got him in trouble

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Rebellious

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Propitious
It was a propitious time to sell my phone
The weather is propitious for a beach day

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Favourable

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Encumbrance

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Impediment

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Approbation

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Praise

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Indemnify

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Reimburse

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Vitiate

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Nullify reduce

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Commiserate

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Offer sympathy to

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Propositions
How many times did you accept those propositions

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Proposals

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Collating

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Collecting

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Dispel

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Eliminate

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Appellation

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Name

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Hackneyed

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Overused

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Preeminent

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Greatest

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Afflict

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Trouble

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Obviated

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Precluded

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Subversive

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Disruptive

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Dowdy

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Unfashionable

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Splendour

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Magnificence

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Interceded

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Intervened on behalf of other

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Consternation

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Dismay

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Succour

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Aid

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Stupendous

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Colossal amazing

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Feat

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Achievement

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Advent

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Arrival

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Unwittingly

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Unintentionally

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Disobliging

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Unhelpful

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Ludicrously

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Foolishly

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Pilfered

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Stolen

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Enjoined

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Urged

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Chutzpah

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Audacity

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Coalesce

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Combine

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Indiscretions
Their marriage ended due to his repeated indiscretions

The politicians indiscretion included accepting gifts 

He committed several social indiscretions by making inappropriate jokes 

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Dalliances
Mistakes

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Untenable
It has become untenable for me

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Indefensible
It is not okay w me

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Engender

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Causes

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Litany

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Repetition

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Disingenuous

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Dishonest

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly

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Veritable

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Incontestable

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Luminary

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Guiding light

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Enthralling

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Fascinating

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Espouses

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Adopts or supports

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Recounts

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Tells

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Awash

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Flooded

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Laden
Laden with gifts

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Loaded

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Excise
I’ve decided to excise him out of my life

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Cut out

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Tendering

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Proffering

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Accord

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Give/grant

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Volition

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Will

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Mores

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Customs

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Risible

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Laughable

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remonstrated

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Protested

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Implacable

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Unappeasable

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Tantamount

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Equivalent to

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