5&6💩💩💩💩💩💩 Flashcards by erica Pinkham | Brainscape

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Ameliorate👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

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To make better, to improve

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Acrimonious 😨😨😨

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Caustic

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Amenable 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

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Docile, obedient

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Amorphous

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Shapeless, having no definite form

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Buoyant

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Capable of floating, cheerful

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Cajole

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To coax, to wheedle, to persuade with flattery

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Calamity

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A serious event causing distress

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Debase

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To reduce in dignity or quality

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Efface

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To erase, to wear away

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Elucidate

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To make clear, to explain

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a short period of time, fleeting

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Ferocity

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Savagery

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Flourish

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To thrive, to grow well

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Haughty

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Arrogant, excessively proud

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Impervious

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Incapable of being entered or penetrated, unable to damage

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Inana

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Lacking meaning, insipid

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Indolence

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Laziness

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Infallible

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Incapable of error

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Inscrutable

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Difficult to understand

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Languid

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Slow, sluggish

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Malice

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Desire to harm others

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Oblique

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Slanting, indirect, evasive

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Opulence

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Wealth, affluence, abundance

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Penitent

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Showing or feeling regret

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Perfunctory

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Acting routinely with little care

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Antiquated

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Obsolete, out of fashion

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Arable

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Fit for plowing

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Ascendancy

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Domination, growing power

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Atrophy

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To waste away, to wither

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Clandestine

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Secret

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Conciliate

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To reconcile, to pacify

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Cursory

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Superficial, casual, hasty

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Derision

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Scoffing at

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Enmity

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Hatred

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Extricate

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To free, to disentangle

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Forbearance

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Patience

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Frivolous

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Lacking in seriousness

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Garrulous

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Talkative

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Impetuous

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Violent, impulsive

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Industrious

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Skillfully busy

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Infamous

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Having a bad reputation

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Insolence

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Insulting behavior

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Levity

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Flippancy

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Oblivion

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State of being forgotten

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Paradoxical

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Something that appears false or contradictory but is actually correct

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Perjury

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False testimony under oath

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Rancor

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Bitter, deep set ill will

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Psychophunt

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A self-serving flatterer

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Vacillating

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Changing, fluctuating

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Vivid

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Bright, distinct, clear