4 Hills Flashcards by casey a | Brainscape

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Aesthetic

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Relating to art or beauty

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Abash

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Make or become ashamed or embarrassed

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Affluent

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Wealthy rich

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Animosity

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Hatred enmity

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Apathy

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Indifference

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Assimilate

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Acculturate or make similar to a group

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Callow

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Immature

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Candid

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Frank honest

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Circumscribe

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To contain or fence in

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Circuitous

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Indirect roundabout

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Colloquial

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Conversational

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Contingent

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Dependent on something else

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Convivial

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Merry lively festive atmosphere

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Decadent

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Self indulgent wild behavior

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Demonstrative

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Expressive openly showing ones feelings

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Devoid

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Utterly lacking something

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Disseminate

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Spread

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Endemic

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Belonging to a particular people region or country

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Engender

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To create

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Exemplify

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Serve as an example

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Facile

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Easy assured fluent

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Gratuitous

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Unwarranted or unnecessary

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Homogeneous

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Everyone appears or acts the same

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Imprudent

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Displaying a lack of discretion or caution

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Infinitesimal

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Immeasurably small

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Matriculate

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To enroll in a college or institution

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Mendicant

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Beggar

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Microcosm

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Mini world or community that is a replica of a larger world

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Milieu

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Surrounding environment

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Myopic

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Near sighted

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Narcissism

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Excessive self love or vanity

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Novel

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New innovative

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Philistine

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Someone who is intellectually ignorant

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Precipitous

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Steep or sudden

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Pristine

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Unspoiled or beautiful

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Provincial

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Narrow minded

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Redolent

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Fragrant

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Salutary

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Good for ones well being

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Serendipity

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Lucky accident or fortunate coincidence

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Sinecure

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Job that requires little or no work but pays well

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Specious

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Deceptive

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Squander

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To waste

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Sycophantic

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A suck up

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Toady

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Suck up

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Uniform

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Consistent

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Utopia

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Imaginary place or ideal world

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Verisimilitude

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Resembling reality or truth

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Vernacular

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Native language or dialect

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Vitriolic

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Full of bitterness respite or anger

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Volition

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Act of free will or choice