ApVocab3 Flashcards by Tee Naa

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Ostentatious

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Pretentious display

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Ornate

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Elaborately decorated

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Poignant

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Profoundly moving

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Ebullience

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Intense enthusiasm

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Effusive

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Emotionaly unrestrained

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Egregious

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Offensive

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Flagrant

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Extremely shocking

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Frenetic

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Wildly excited

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Gratuitous

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Given freely

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Superfluous

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Extra

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Alleviate

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To ease a pain

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Asylum

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A place of security

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Auspicous

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Promising

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Benevolent

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Generous

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Benign

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Kind and gentle

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Mollify

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To calm

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Reclamation

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Making something useful again

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Sanction

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To give official approval

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Dubious

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Doubtful

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Fabricated

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Made; concocted to deceive

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Hypocrisy

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Insincerity

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Slander

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False charges

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Spurious

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Not genuine

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Astute

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Clever

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Clandedtine

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Secretive

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Coup

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A brilliantly executed plan

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Disingenuous

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Crafty

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Ruse

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A crafty tick

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Stratagem

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A clever trick used to deceive

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Surreptitiously

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Done by secretive means

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Wary

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On guard

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Wily

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Cunning

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Ambiguous

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Open to more than one interpretation

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Ambivalent

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Uncertain

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Apathetic

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Showing little emotion

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Arbitary

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Determined by impulse rather than reason

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Carpricious

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Impulsive and unpredictable

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Equivocate

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To avoid making a definite statement

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Indifferent

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Not caring one way or the other

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Spontaneuous

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Unplanned

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Whimsical

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Subject to erratic behavior

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Inconsequential

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Unimportant

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Superficial

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Shallow

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Tenuos

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Having little substance or strength

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Trivial

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Little importance

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Assiduous

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Hard working

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Compelling

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Forceful

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Diligent

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Marked by painstaking effort

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Dogged

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Stubbornly persevering

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Endure

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To put up with