51-100 Flashcards

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Impute

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to attribute an action to particular person or group

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Incompatible

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opposed in nature, not able to live or work together

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Inconsequential

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unimportant, trivial

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Inevitable

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certain, unavoidable

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Integrity

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decency, honesty, wholeness

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Intrepid

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fearless, adventurous

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Intuitive

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instinctive, untaught

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Jubilation

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joy, celebration, exultation

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Lobbyist

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person who seeks to influence political events

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Longevity

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long life

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Mundane

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ordinary, commonplace

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Nonchalant

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calm, casual, seeming unexcited

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Novice

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beginner, apprentice

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Opulent

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wealthy

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Orator

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lecturer, speaker

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Ostentatious

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showy, displaying wealth

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Parched

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dried up, shriveled

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Perfidious

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faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy

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Precocious

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unusually advanced or talented at an early age

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Pretentious

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pretending to be important, intelligent, or cultured

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Procrastinate

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to unneccessarily delay, postpone, put off

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Prosaic

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relating to prose, dull, commonplace

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Prosperity

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wealth or success

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Provocative

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tending to provoke a response e.g., anger or disagreement

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Prudent
careful, cautious
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Querulous
complaining, irritable
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Rancorous
bitter, hateful
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Reclusive
preferring to live in isolation
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Reconciliation
the act of agreement after a quarrel, the resolution of a dispute
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Renovation
repair, making something new again
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Resilient
quick to recover, bounce back
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Restrained
controlled, repressed, restricted
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Reverence
worship, profound respect
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Sagacity
wisdom
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Scrutinize
to observe carefully
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Spontaneity
impulsive action, unplanned events
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Spurious
lacking authenticity, fake
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Submissive
tending to meekness, to submit to the will of others
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Substantiate
to verify, confirm, provide supporting evidence
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Subtle
hard to detect or describe, perceptive
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Superficial
shallow, lacking in depth
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Superfluous
extra, more than enough, redundant
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Suppress
to end an activity, e.g., to prevent the dissemination of information
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Surreptitious
secret, stealthy
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Tactful
considerate, skillful in acting to avoid offense to others
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Tenacious
determined, keeping a firm grip on
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Transient
temporary, short-lived, fleeting, ephemeral
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Venerable
respected because of age
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Vindicate
to clear from blame or suspicion
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Wary
careful, cautious