Ap English Language Pt. 9 Flashcards

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Leery

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Suspicious

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Impregnable

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Totally safe from attack, able to resist defeat

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Bestial

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Beastly animallike

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Lionize

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To treat as a celebrity

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Caustic

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capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.

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Cavalier

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Carefree happy behaving without care

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Demystify

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To remove mystery from; to clarify

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Deplete

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To use up to exhaust

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Emaciated

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Skinny, scrawny, gaunt, especially from hunger

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Embroil

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To involve; caused to fall into disorder

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Feign

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To pretend, give a false impression; to invent falsely

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Fervid

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Passionate, intense, zealous

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Grandiose

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Magnificent and imposing; exaggerated and pretentious

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Gratuitous

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Free, voluntary; unnecessary and unjustified

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Hermetic

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Tightly sealed

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Hegemony

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Leadership, domination, usually by a country

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Inane

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Foolish, silly, lacking significance

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Bevy

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Group

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Impromptu

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Spontaneous, without rehearsal

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Livid

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Extremely angered; reddened with anger

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Loiter

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To stand around idly

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Matriculate

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To enroll as a member of a school or college or university

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Maudlin

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Overly sentimental

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Nondescript

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Lacking interesting or distinctive qualities; dull

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Opine

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To express an opinion

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Orchestrate

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To arrange music for performance; to coordinate, organize

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Paraphrase

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To reword, usually in simpler terms

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Pariah

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Outcast

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Quiver

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To shake slightly, tremble, vibrate

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Quibble

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To argue about insignificant and irrelevant details

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Recalcitrant

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Resisting authority or control

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Recant

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To retract a statement, opinion, etc.

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Scrupulous

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Restrained; honest; careful and precise

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Scurrilous

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Vulgar, low, Indecent

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Tenet

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Belief, doctrine

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Terrestrial

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Personally; down to earth, commonplace

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Usurp

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To seize by force

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Amalgamate

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To mix, to combine

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Amorous

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Strongly attracted to love; showing love

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Impoverish

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To make poor or bankrupt