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333 highly used words Flashcards

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Abate

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Subside/less intense

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Aberrant

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Abnormal/deviant

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Beneficent

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Kindly/ doing good

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Bolster

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Support/reinforce

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Capricious

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Unpredictable/fickle minded

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Castigation

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punishment

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Abeyance

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Suspended action

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Abscond

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depart secretly and hide

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Abstemious

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sparring( being economical ) in eating and drinking

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Banal

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unoriginal/ not possessing freshness

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Belie

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Contradict/ give a false impression

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Caustic

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Burning/ being sarcastic

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Chicanery

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Trickery/ deception

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Coda

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Ending part of a musical ( song, poem)

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Admonish

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Warn/ reprove

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Alleviate

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Relieve / to make easier to endure

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Amalgamate

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combine

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Ambiguous

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Unclear/ doubtful in meaning

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Bombastic

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Pompous / using inflated words

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Boorish

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Rude/ insensitive

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Burgeon

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grow forth. eg plant

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Burnish

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Make shiny by rubbing/ polish ( image,skills,metal)

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Cogent

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Convincing reason

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Commensurate

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Proportionate

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Compendium

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Brief/ summary

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Complaisant

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Trying to please / being overly polite

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Ameliorate

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Improve

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Anarchronism

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Something or someone misplaced in time

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Analogous

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Compare

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Antipathy

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Dislike/ aversion (dislike)

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Buttress

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prop/ support ( usually building )

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Compliant

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obey/ meet with rules and regulation

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Conciliatory

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Reconcile ( come to an agreement )/ placate ( to soothe )

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Condone

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forgive / overlook

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Confound

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confuse / puzzle

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Contentious

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Argumentative / quarrelsome (having a heated argument)

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Anarchy

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absence of governing body / state of disorder

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Anomalous

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abnormal/ irregular

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Apathy

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lacking of caring / interest / indifference (lack of interest )

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Appease

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soothe / pacify / to satisfy

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Connoisseur

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best judge in a field

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Contrite

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Penitent ( expressing sorrow for a sin and disposed to atonement )

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Conundrum

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riddle / puzzle / a problem

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Converge

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meet in a point / approach

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Apprise

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inform / advise

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Approbation

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approve

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Appropriate

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Take possession for own use / acquire

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Arduous

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hard/ tiring/ difficult (usually trips)

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Convoluted

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involved / intricate / complicated

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Craven

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cowardly

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Daunt

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intimidate / frighten

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Decorum

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Orderliness / polite & respectable behaviour

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Default

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Failure to act

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Deference

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courteous (polite) regard / showing respect

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Ascetic

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practicing self denial ( sacrifice of own’s desire )

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Austere

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Severely simple/ unornamented / strict

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Attenuate

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reduce thickness / effect / force / form

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Assuage

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soothe anger / lessen pain / satisfy hunger

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Aver

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assert confidently / declare

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Delineate

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portray / depict / sketch

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Denigrate

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blacken / criticize

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Deride

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Make fun off

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Desicate

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Dry up

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Ebullient

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showing excitement

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Eclectic

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selective / made from disparate source

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Efficacy

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Power to produce desired effect

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Effrontery

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shameless / sheer nerve / presumptuousness

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Elegy

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a poem or song expressing lamentation ( sorrow ) ( usually played at funerals )

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Facetious

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Joking inappropriately / humourous

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Facilitate

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Help bring about / make less difficult/ make easy

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Fallacious

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Misleading / false

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Fatuous

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brainless / foolish / inane (lacking sense)

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Fawning

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Trying to please by behaving desperate/ displaying exaggerated flattering

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Desultory

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Aimless / haphazard / digress

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Deterrent

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Something that discourages / a hinderance

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Diatribe

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bitter scolding / angry speech

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Dichotomy

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Split / division of 2 opposing group

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Diffidence

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Shyness / lacking confidence

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Diffuse

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spread out / wordy

80
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Elicit

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Draw out by discussion

81
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Evoke

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to call up / summon / produce

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Embellish

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ornament / enhance ( a story ,looks )

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Adorn

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to decorate

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Empirical

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based on experience or observation

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Emulate

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imitate / match or surpass someone by imitating

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Endemic

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belonging exclusively to an area or a group of peopee

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Felicitous

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Well suited / or expressed

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Fervor

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Strong feeling

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Flag

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to fall of / to hang loosely(droop) / loose enthusiasm

Barron's 333 most frequently used words (8 decks)

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