AB Flashcards
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Abeyance
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suspension
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Abreast
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parallel, updated
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Abstract
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(noun)
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Abstruse
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opaque
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Acknowledge
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appreciate
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Acolyte
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religious follower
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Acquisitive
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desirous
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Acumen
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quick grasp
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Admonish
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urgently advise
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Adroit
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skillful in body/mind
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Adverse
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harmful
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Affectation
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pretense
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Aggregate
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(noun)
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Allegorical
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symbolic meaning
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Allusive
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making indirect references
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Ambivalent
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emotionally ambiguous
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Animus
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animosity
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Antedate
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precede
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Anticipate
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predict (not hope)
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Apologist
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defender
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Appealing
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requesting, attractive
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Appreciate
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recognize value
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Apprise
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inform
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Appropriate
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(verb)
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Artful
dishonestly ingenious
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Astringent
stringent
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Auspicious
good luck
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Aver
(verb) assert
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Avert
turn away
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Axiomatic
self evident
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Baroque
overly detailed
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Barrage
concentrated outpouring
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Base
(adj) immoral
34
Bawdy
sex comedy
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Beneficent
charitable, beneficial
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Bereft
mournfully lacking
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Blithe
carefree
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Bombastic
overhyped
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Bridle
express anger
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Bromide
platitude, dull person
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Brook
(verb) tolerate
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Burnish
improve
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Buttress
support
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Byzantine
complex (not old)
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Callow
inexperienced
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Canny
well thought
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Captious
nitpicky
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Causal
implying
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Chary
wary
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Churlish
rude
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Circumspect
wary
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Cloying
too much of a good thing
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Cogitate
think
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Comity
peaceful coexistence
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Commiserate
share sorrow
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Conflagration
fire
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Conjectural
guessing with limited data
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Connoisseur
discerning expert (not supporter)
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Contemporary
same time period
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Contravene
violate rule
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Contretemps
disagreement
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Conundrum
dilemma (not paradox)
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Convalescent
recovering from illness
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Convival
jovial
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Corporeal
physical
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Countenance
(verb) permit, (noun) look on face
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Curmudgeon
difficult person
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Dawdle
waste time
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Dearth
lack of
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Debilitating
weakening
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Deleterious
damaging, detrimental
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Desultory
unenthu
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Detract
remove
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Dilettante
jack of a trade
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Dirge
sad song
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Dissemble
feign
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Dissident
conscientious objector
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Doctrinaire
dogmatic
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Dogged
resolute
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Dowdy
obsolete
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Droll
funny
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Ebullient
cherry
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Edify
uplift
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Effrontery
audacity
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Engender
stimulate
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Ennui
boredom
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Entreat
request
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Entrenched
high inertia
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Equanimity
level headedness
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Forgo
do without
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Forego
go before
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Evanescent
transient
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Excoriate
condemn
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Exhort
persuade
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Exigent
urgent
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Expatiate
go into detail
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Expedient
convenient
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Extenuating
mitigative
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Facetious
inappropriately funny
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Factious
faction creating
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Fallacious
based on fallacy
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Fallow
barren
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Feckless
cowardly
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Fecund
fertile
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Felicitous
apt
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Fledgling
inexperienced
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Florid
intricate, red
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Foment
instigate
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Forbear
refrain
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Foreseeable
predictable
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Forestall
preempt
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Fortitude
resilience (fort+attitude)
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Fractious
hard to control
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Frivolous
unserious
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Gainsay
refute
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Gauche
awkward
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Gawky
awkward
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Glib
insincerely fluent
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Gratuitous
unwarranted
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Hapless
unlucky
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Harangued
angry rant
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Heady
stupefying
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Histrionic
overly emotional
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Imbroglio
complex messy situation (embroil)
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Immure
imprison
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Impetuous
impulsive
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Impudent
disrespectful
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Inborn
congenital
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Inchoate
not fully formed
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Incongruous
out of place
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Indefatigable
energetic
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Indolent
lazy
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Ineluctable
inescapable
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Inimical
damaging (~EnEmEcal)
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Inscrutable
mysterious
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Intransigent
stubborn
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Intrepid
brave (no trepidation)
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Inveigle
flatter
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Inveterate
traditional
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Invidious
leading to resentment
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Inviolate
not violated
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Irascible
easily irritated
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Irresolute
without resolution
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Itinerant
constantly travelling
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Jocund
jovial
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Laconic
taciturn
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Languid
relaxed
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Largesse
altruism
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Lassitude
lack of energy
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Libertine
iconoclast
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Limpid
clear
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Lionize
deify
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Lugubrious
sad
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Magisterial
authoritative
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Mawkish
overly sentimental
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Mendacity
dishonesty
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Mercurial
capricious
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Modish
currently fashionable
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Mordant
caustic
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Munificent
overly generous
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Nettlesome
irritating
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Numinous
divine
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Obdurate
stubborn
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Obeisance
reverence
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Obsequious
submissive to authority
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Obstreperous
unruly
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Obviate
sidestep
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Odious
repulsive
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Officious
overbearing
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Opprobrium
criticism
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Ossify
harden
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Oust
kick out
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Parsimonious
frugal
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Peccadillo
small flaw
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Pellucid
lucid
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Penurious
penniless
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Perfidy
betrayal
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Perfunctory
without enthusiasm
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Pernicious
damaging
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Perspicacious
keen
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Pertinacious
stubborn
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Pertinent
relevant
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Phillistine
uneducated
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Phlegmatic
placid
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Piquant
(adjective for pique)
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Pithy
concise
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Plaintive
melancholic
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Pliant
pliable
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Ponderous
heavy/slow
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Precocious
smart from early on
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Predilection
preference
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Prevaricate
dodge the truth
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Probity
strong ethics
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Profligate
wasteful
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Prolix
protracted/verbose
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Propitiate
make peace
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Propitious
favorable
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Providential
good timing
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Prurient
lewd
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Pugnacious
combative
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Punctilious
meticulous
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Quiescent
quiet
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Rapacious
greedy
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Recondite
obscure
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Recrudescent
resurgent
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Redoubtable
fear inducing
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Reprobate
immoral
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Reticent
secretive
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Retiring
reclusive
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Rhapsody
ecstasy
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Salubrious
promoting health
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Salutary
beneficial
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Scrupulous
principled, meticulous
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Sedulous
meticulous
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Sinecure
easy rich job
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Sinuous
winding (like a sine)
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Slovenly
unkempt
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Soliloquy
self monologue
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Sophistry
logical fallacies
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Spartan
austere
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Specious
fallacious
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Spurious
fake
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Stalwart
loyal
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Stanch
lessen
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Stint
(verb)
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Supple
nimble
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Supplicate
beg
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Surfeit
surplus
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Surreptitious
stealthy
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Temerity
audacity
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Tendentious
expressing a view
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Timorous
lacking courage
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Torpor
inactivity
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Tortuous
convoluted
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Trenchant
vigorous
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Truculent
defiant
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Turbid
opaque
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Turgid
bloated
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Turpitude
wickedness
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Unalloyed
pure
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Upbraid
scold
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Vacuous
dumb
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Vapid
uninteresting
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Venal
corrupt
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Verisimilitude
appearance of truth
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Veritable
being truly
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Verve
energy
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Virulent
hostile
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Vitiate
degrade
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Voluble
rambling
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Wayward
uncontrollable
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Wheedle
flatter
