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400 Words Part 7 Flashcards

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Blanch

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Drain of color, to become pale or pallid

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Bombastic

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Pretentious, lacking in humility

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Conflate

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Combine, fuse

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Brandish

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To shake or wave in a menacing manner

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Brusque

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Rough, abrupt

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Burgeon

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Grow rapidly

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Cantankerous

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Bad-tempered

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Choleric

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Irascible, easily angered

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Fractious

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Unruly
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Readily angered, irritable

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Factious

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Divisive

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Capacious

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Spacious, roomy

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Rapacious

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Greedy

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Circuitous

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Indirect

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Circumscribe

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Restrict, limit

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Circumspect

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Careful, cautious

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Compendium

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Summary

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Compendious

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Succinct, concise
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Comprehensive

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Epitome

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Summary
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Perfect example

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Capitulate

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Surrender

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Epiphany

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Sudden revelation

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Epitaph

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Engraving on a gravestone

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Crux

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Basic critical point, purport

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Audacity

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Boldness, daring
OR 
Effrontery, shamelessly bold
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Temerity, reckless boldness
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Corroborate

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Support with evidence

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Decorum

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Conformity to accepted norms, propriety, etiquette

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Audacious

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Very bold

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Defile

A

Make dirty

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Demonstrative

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Showing an open display on feeings

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Demystify

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Make clear

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Desultory

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Marked by a lack of service, fortuitous

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Happenstance

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Coincidence

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Dilatory

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Tending to delay

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Disabuse

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free from errors

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Edify

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Uplift, correct

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Disingenuous

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Perfidious, very crafty, sly

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Invidious

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Tending to rouse hatred

37
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Divulge

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Reveal, disclose

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Docile

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Malleable, lithe, pliable

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Dogmatic

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Opinionated

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Eclectic

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Selecting from a wide variety of sources

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Inimitable

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Unable to be copied

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Inimical

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Hostile

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Enamor

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Fill with love

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Equanimity

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Poise, composure

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Effervescent

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Bubbling, lively

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Efface

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Obliterate, extinguish

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