Ap English Language Pt. 10 Flashcards by Daniel Cendejas | Brainscape

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Melancholy

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Sadness, depression

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Mawkish

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Sickeningly sentimental

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Ostentatious

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Showy

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Overstate

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To embellish; exaggerate

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Paucity

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Scarcity; lack; rareness; dearth

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Pedagogue

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Teacher

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Refurbish

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To renovate; to fix up; to restore

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Replete

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Abundantly supplied; full up

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Scoff

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To deride; to ridicule; to mock; to make fun of

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Servile

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Submissive; obedient

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Tirade

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Long, violent speech; verbal assault

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Thwart

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To block or prevent from happening; to frustrate

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Volition

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Free choice; free will; act of choosing

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Voracious

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Having a great appetite

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Wizened

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Withered; shriveled; wrinkled

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Exult

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To rejoice; to revel

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Drivel

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Stupid talk; slobber; nonsense

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Duplicitous

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Deceitful; two-faced; dishonest; tricky

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Craven

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Cowardly; spineless; weak

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Buffoon

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Clown or fool

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Adulation

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High praise; worship

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Affable

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Friendly, easy to approach

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Bludgeon

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To hit as with a short, heavy club

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Boisterous

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Rowdy, loud, unrestrained

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Chagrin

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Shame, embarrassment, humiliation

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Chicanery

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Trickery, fraud, deception

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Desecrate

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To abuse something sacred

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Desiccate

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To dry completely, dehydrate

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Domineer

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To rule over something in a tyrannical way

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Exort

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To obtain something by threats

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant, unrelated, unnecessary

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Foible

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Minor weakness or character flaw

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Fiasco

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Disaster, utter failure

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Hyperbole

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Purposeful exaggeration for effect

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Hypocrite

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Person claiming beliefs or virtues he or she doesn’t really posses

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Impious

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Not devout or faithful in religion

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Implicate

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To involve in a crime, incriminate

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Intrepid

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Fearless

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Lurk

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To prowl, sneak

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Luscious

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Tasty