AVID VOCAB WEEK 11 Flashcards by lesly Perez

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Prevaricate

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To lie, evade the truth

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Prodigal

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Wasteful, extravagant, lavish

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Privation

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Lack of usual necessities or comforts

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Probity

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Honesty, high-mindedness

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Prodigious

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Cast, enormous, extraordinary

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Profligate

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Corrupt, degenerate

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Progenitor

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Originator, forefather

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Progeny

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Offspring, children

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Proliferation

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Propagation, reproduction, enlargement, expansion

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Prolific

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Productive, fertile

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Promontory

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Piece of land or rock higher than its surroundings

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Promulgate

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To make known publicly

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Propinquity

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Nearness

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Propitiate

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To win over, appease

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Propitious

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Favorable, advantageous

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Proponent

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Advocate, defender, supporter

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Prosaic

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Relating to prose; dull, commonplace

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Prose

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Everyday language used in everyday speech

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Proselytize

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To convert to a particular belief of religion

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