Appendix A Flashcards

1
Q
Abridge
Compendium
Cursory
Curtail
Syllabus
synopsis
terse
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Abbreviated Communication

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abrupt
apace
headlong
impetuous
precipitate
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Act Quickly

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abet
advocate
ancillary
bolster
corroborate
countenance
espouse
mainstay
munificent
proponent
stalwart
sustenance
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Assist

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bilious
dudgeon
irascible
pettish
petulant
pique
querulous
umbrage
waspish
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Bad Mood

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dilettante
fledgling
neophyte
novitiate
proselyte
tyro
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beginner/amateur

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burgeoning
callow
engender
inchoate
incipient
nascent
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Beginning/Young

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acerbic
acidulous
acrimonious
asperity
caustic
mordacious
mordant
trenchant
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Biting (as in wit or temperament)

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audacious
courageous
dauntless

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Bold

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banal
fatuous
hackneyed
insipid
mundane
pedestrian
platitude
prosaic
quotidian
trite
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Boring

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10
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bacchanalian
debauchery
depraved
dissipated
iniquity
libertine
libidinous
licentious
reprobate
ribald
salacious
sordid
turpitude
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Carousal (binge on immoral actions)

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capricious
mercurial
volatile

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Changing Quickly

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12
Q
counterpart
emulate
facsimile
factitious
paradigm
precursor
quintessence
simulated
vicarious
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Copy

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13
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aspersion
belittle
berate
calumny
castigate
decry
defamation
denounce
deride/derisive
diatribe 
disparage
excoriate
gainsay
A

Criticize/Criticism

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harangue
impugn
inveigh
lambaste
objurgate
obloquy
opprobrium
pillory
rebuke
remonstrate
reprehend
reprove
revile
tirade
vituperate
A

Criticize/Criticism

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bereave
cadaver
defunct
demise
dolorous
elegy
knell
lament
macabre
moribund
obsequies
sepulchral
wraith
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Death/mourning

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16
Q
abnegate
abstain
ascetic
spartan
stoic
temperate
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Denying of Self

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Q
authoritarian
despotic
dogmatic
hegemonic (hegemony)
imperious
peremptory
tyrannical
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Dictatorial

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Q
abstruse
ambiguous
arcane
bemusing
cryptic
enigmatic
esoteric
inscrutable
obscure
opaque
paradoxical
perplexing
recondite
turbid
A

Difficult to Understand

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Q
defile
fetid
invidious
noisome
odious
putrid
rebarbative
A

Disgusting/Offensive

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articulate
cogent
eloquent
evident
limpid
lucid
pellucid
A

easy to understand

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Q
aberrant
anachronism
anomalous
discrete
eclectic
esoteric
iconoclast
A

Eccentric/Dissimilar

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Q
abash
chagrin
compunction
contrition
diffidence
expiate
foible
gaucherie
rue
A

Embarrass

23
Q

equitable
equity
tantamount

A

Equal

24
Q
apocryphal
canard
chicanery
dissemble
duplicity
equivocate
erroneous
ersatz
fallacious
feigned
guile
mendacious/mendacity
perfidy
prevaricate
specious
spurious
A

Falsehood

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Q
conjugal
consanguine
distaff
endogamous
filial
fratricide
progenitor
scion
A

Family

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Q
Ardor/ardent
doctrinaire
fervid
partisan
tendentious
zealot
A

Favoring/Not Impartial

27
Q
absolve
acquit
exculpate
exonerate
expiate
palliate
redress
vindicate
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Forgive