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7, 8, and 9 Flashcards

1
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Receptive to suggestions or criticism

Responsible for something legally

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Amenable

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Strikingly unconventional or peculiar as to taste or style (etc.)

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Bizarre

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I defensive wall or fortification; any safeguard or defense

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bulwark

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4
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A small group of highly placed people united for secret and often sinister purpose

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cabal

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5
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A picture or description in which the characteristic features of the original are exaggerated or distorted

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Caricatures

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6
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I completed often ridiculous failure

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Fiasco

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7
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Added for decoration

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Garnished

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8
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spoken casually without thought

Smoothly spoken often characterized by insincerity

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Glib

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9
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cynical from overexposure to something

Worn out from use

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Jaded

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10
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Bravery, superior skill

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Prowess

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11
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Basic principles first learned about a subject

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Rudiments

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12
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characterized by erratic behavior or unpredictability odd freakish

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Whimsical

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13
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eight:

A step-by-step explanation of something by comparing it with something else

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Analogy

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14
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Daring boldness; impudence

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Audacity

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15
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Good manners politeness

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Civility

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16
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skill in using the hands or body mental quickness

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Dexterity

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17
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Double-dealing deceitfulness

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Duplicity

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18
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Something that has immediate advantages

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Expediency

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19
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A false or misleading idea deceptive or unsound argument

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fallacy

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20
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excess in eating

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Gluttony

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21
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unbecoming or inappropriate frivolity or jocularity lack of seriousness

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Levity

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22
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a nobleness of spirit which disdains petty resentment and revenge

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Magnanimity

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23
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depth of intellect or emotion

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profundity

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24
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A natural inclination or tendency

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Propensity

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25
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nine :

Any opening in a solid surface

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Aperture

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26
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Great warmth of emotion or desire

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ardor

27
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skilled trickery cleverness

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Artifice

28
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openness of mind impartiality

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Candor

29
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The end or resolution of something the climax

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Culmination

30
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Courtesy respect; complying to the opinions or desires of others

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deference

31
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Presumptuous brash behavior often insulting

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Effrontery

32
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The face or front of anything; especially, a deceptive false front

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façade

33
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The holding of an office and the administering of its duties also the term of an office

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incumbency

34
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an assumption from which conclusion is gathered

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Premise

35
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Government funds given to support a business thought to be in the public interest

Financial aid given by one party to another

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Subsidy

36
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decision; an act of conscious choice

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Volition

37
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against opposite

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anti-

contra- contro-

38
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Outside beyond

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extra-

39
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Inside within

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intro-intra-

40
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after

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post-

41
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to lie (down)

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CUMB CUB

42
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to say

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DIC DICT

43
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first original primitive

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PROTO

44
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To write

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SCRIB SCRIPT

45
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To drag to draw

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TRACT

46
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One who, that which; state, quality of

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-or

47
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two

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di-

48
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Against toward completely

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ob-

49
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for before forward

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pro-

50
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to lean to slope

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CLIN

51
Q

To carry

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PORT

52
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to know

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SCI

53
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to come

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VEN VENT

54
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pertaining to

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-ac -iac

55
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before

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ante-

56
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Good well

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eu-

57
Q

Backward behind

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retro-

58
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with together

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syn-

59
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art skill craft

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ART

60
Q

to cry out

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CLAM CLAIM

61
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nature

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PHYSI

62
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to break

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RUPT

63
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Like having the quality of

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-ly (1)

64
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in the manner of

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-ly (2)

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