7, 8, and 9 Flashcards

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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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3
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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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nine : Any opening in a solid surface
Aperture
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Great warmth of emotion or desire
ardor
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skilled trickery cleverness
Artifice
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openness of mind impartiality
Candor
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The end or resolution of something the climax
Culmination
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Courtesy respect; complying to the opinions or desires of others
deference
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Presumptuous brash behavior often insulting
Effrontery
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The face or front of anything; especially, a deceptive false front
façade
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The holding of an office and the administering of its duties also the term of an office
incumbency
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an assumption from which conclusion is gathered
Premise
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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
Subsidy
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decision; an act of conscious choice
Volition
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against opposite
anti- | contra- contro-
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Outside beyond
extra-
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Inside within
intro-intra-
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after
post-
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to lie (down)
CUMB CUB
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to say
DIC DICT
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first original primitive
PROTO
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To write
SCRIB SCRIPT
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To drag to draw
TRACT
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One who, that which; state, quality of
-or
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two
di-
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Against toward completely
ob-
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for before forward
pro-
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to lean to slope
CLIN
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To carry
PORT
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to know
SCI
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to come
VEN VENT
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pertaining to
-ac -iac
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before
ante-
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Good well
eu-
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Backward behind
retro-
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with together
syn-
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art skill craft
ART
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to cry out
CLAM CLAIM
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nature
PHYSI
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to break
RUPT
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Like having the quality of
-ly (1)
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in the manner of
-ly (2)