#5 Monday May 19 Flashcards

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Candor

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Honesty of expression; truthfulness

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Brazen

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Bold, shameless, impudent; blatant

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Champion

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To defend or support; to fight for

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Charlatan

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Quack, faker, imposter

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Chaotic

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Extremely disorderly

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Circumnavigate

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To sail completely around

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Circumvent

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To go around; avoid

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Clandestine

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Secretive, concealed for a darker purpose

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Clemency

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Merciful leniency, forgiveness, mercy

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Coddle

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To baby, to treat indulgently, to spoil

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Colloquial

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Characteristic of informal speech, slang

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Commensurate

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Equal, proportional

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Diabolical

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Fiendish; wicked; evil

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Deviate

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To stray, to wander, to turn away

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Diminutive

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Small

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Dogmatic

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Rigidly fixed in opinion, opinionated

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Dolt

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Idiot, dimwit, foolish person

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Dulcet

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Pleasant sounding, soothing to the ear

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Doleful

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Sad, mournful

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Disheveled

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Untidy, disarranged, unkempt, messy

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Duress

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Threat of force or intimidation; imprisonment

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Ebullient

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Exhilarated, full of enthusiasm and high spirits

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Edifice

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Engender

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To produce, to cause, to bring about

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Enervate
To weaken, to sap strength from
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Ensconce
To settle comfortably into a place; entrench
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Ennui
Boredom, lack of interest and energy
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Enshround
To cover, to enclose with a dark cover
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Enthrall
To captivate, to enchant, to enslave, to charm
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Equine
Relating to horses
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Errant
Straying, mistaken, roving; delinquent
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Espouse
To support or advocate; to promote
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Euphoria
Felling of happiness, joy, excitement
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Excommunicate
To bar from membership in the church
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Exude
To give off, to ooze, to show
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Farcical
Absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous
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Fitful
Intermittent, irregular, broken
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Fortuitous
Happening by luck, fortunate
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Forsake
To abandon, to withdraw from, to leave behind
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Forlorn
Hopeless, sad, despairing