Advanced Vocab Flashcards by Ari Slovin | Brainscape

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Assiduous

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Hard working

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Halcyon

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Clam or peaceful

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Ameliorate

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Make a bad situation better

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Paragon

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Excellence or perfection

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Reticent

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Keeping to yourself

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Irascible

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Easily angered or annoyed

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Specious

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Seems correct or true but is deceiving and is false or wrong

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Ineffable

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Too great or extreme to be pronounced in words

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Pilchirtude

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Physical beauty

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Diffident

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Sky, quiet

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Perfuntory

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Showing little interest or enthusiasm

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Somnolent

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Sleepy

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Ameliorate(2)

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Improve or enhance

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Listless

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Lacking energy or enthusiasm

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Confound

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To frustrate or confuse

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Noxious

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Harmful, Unwholesome

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Adorn

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To decorate

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Plenitude

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An abundance of

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Jubilant

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Joyful

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Chirpy

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Lively or cheerful

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Catalyze

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To inspire

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Conformist

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Behave similar to others

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acquiesce

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Agree without protesting

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Deride

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Laugh at (Mocking someone)

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Affluent

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Wealthy, Rich

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Content

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Satisfied with what you have

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Conundrum

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Puzzle, problem

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Mutable

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Able to change

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Abjure

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Reject, renounce

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Preclude

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To prevent

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Penury

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Lack or resources (Poor)

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Ebullient

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Lively or very enthusiastic

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Boisterous

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Loud and Full of energy

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Mitigate

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To make less violent

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Reprobate

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Evil

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Illicit

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Forebidden

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Deft

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Skillful

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Inept

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Unqualified