38 Flashcards
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Lobbying
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Seek to influence on an issue
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Quisling
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A traitor
3
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Rapscallion
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A mischievous person
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Stalemate
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A position in which no more further progress
5
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Painstaking
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Done with great care or thoroughness
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Tortuous
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Full of twist and turns
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Torturous
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Causing excruciating pain
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Gadfly
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An annoying person
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Chump
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A foolish or easily deceived person
10
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Forte
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Strength
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Pastime
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A hobby
12
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Novelty
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The quality of being new and original
13
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Acculturation
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To assimilate
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Specious
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Plausible but wrong
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Squalid
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Dirty and unpleasant
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Culpable
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Guilty
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Guile
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Sly and cunning intelligence
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Proscribe
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Forbid especially by law
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Stipulate
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Demand or specify
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Flagitious
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Criminal villian
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Keen
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Highly developed
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Contemptible
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Deserving contempt
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Torpid
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Mentally or physically inactive
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Saturnine
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Can also mean sluggish
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Tepid
Showing little enthusiasm
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Solemn
Formal or dignified
| Not cheering and serious
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Sinuous
Having many curves or turn
| Little and supple
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Dialectical
Acting through opposing force
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Penitence
Feeling or showing sorrow or regret
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Satiate
Satisfied to the full
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Leery
Cautious or wary through suspicion
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Peevish
Easily irritated
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Jaundiced
Bitterness resentment or envy
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Ingenue
An innocent or unsophisticated woman especially in a film
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Defunct
No longer existing or functioning
