33 Flashcards

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Regressive

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Rocking less advanced

Returning to the previous or less advanced stage

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Auxiliary

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Providing supplementary or support

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Whet

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Sharpen

Excite or stimulate

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4
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Loggerheads

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Foolish person

Stubborn dispute or disagreement

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5
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Colluding

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Conspire

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Abet

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Encourage or assist to do something wrong

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7
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Livid

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Furiously angry

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Apologist

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A defender

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9
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Passé

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No longer fashionable

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Sere

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Dry or withered

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11
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Resplendent

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Attractive and impressive

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12
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Stoic

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A person who can endure pain or hardship

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13
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Mire

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A state of difficulty or distress

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14
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Besotted

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Intoxicated drunk

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15
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Myopic

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Nearsighted

Lacking imagination foresight

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Complacent

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Showing unsatisfaction with ones own achievement

17
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Bemused

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Puzzled confused or bewildered

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Bigot

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A person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinion

19
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Purblind

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Impaired defective vision

Slow or unable to understand

20
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Mordant

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Having or showing a sharp critical quality

21
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Astigmatic

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A defect in the eye

22
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Impetus

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The force that makes something happen

23
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Prim

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Stiffly formal and respectable

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Meretricious

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Attractive but having no value or integrity

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Lascivious
Offensive sexual display
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Semantics
The meaning of word phrase sentences or text
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Ethnocentric
Evaluating people according to their standards and culture