Advanced 7 Flashcards
1
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benighted
A
ignorant
2
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perquisite
A
exclusive right
3
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blinkered
A
limited outlook
4
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languid
A
tired
5
Q
dissolution
A
debauchery
6
Q
subversive
A
opposing authority
7
Q
raft
A
large number
8
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importuned
A
ask persistently
9
Q
sinecure
A
easy job
10
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rakish
A
disreputable
11
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nonplussed
A
unsure how to act
12
Q
specious
A
misleadingly attractive
13
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travail
A
hard word
14
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aphoristic
A
concise and true
15
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harried
A
troubled persistently
16
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repudiate
A
deny as untrue
17
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overwheening
A
overly proud
18
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palimpsest
A
something reused
19
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dilatory
A
time wasting
20
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bowdlerize
A
censor
21
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factious
A
causing dissension, think factious faction
22
Q
hagiographic
A
idealizing a subject
23
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carping
A
fault finding
24
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foment
A
stir up, agitate
25
prolixity
verbosity
26
spurn
reject with contempt
27
arrant
complete
28
arch
teasing
29
insouciance
lack of concern
30
picayune
trifling, petty
31
virago
screaming woman
32
remiss
be negligent
33
propitiate
appease
34
enjoin
prohibit
35
ferret
search for
36
splenetic
highly irritable
37
vicissitude
change in fortune
| Also mutability or changing.
38
inscrutable
unfathomable
39
gauche
clumsy
40
forlorn
hopeless
41
extenuate
make less guilty
42
peremptory
bossy
43
venial
pardonable
44
contrive
scheme
45
indignant
angry
