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Barron's 800-900 Flashcards

1
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Winning elections through chicanery

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Use of deception to achieve one’s purpose

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A connoisseur of music/fine wines

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An expert judge in matters of taste

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He quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions

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To undeceive; to set right; to persuade someone that an idea or belief is mistaken

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The movie captured the zeitgeist of the late 1960’s

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The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history

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He no longer felt any animosity towards her

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Strong hostility

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After 50 years as an apostate, he returned to the faith

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A person who renounces a religious/political belief or principle

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The heat would be insufferable by july

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Too extreme to bear; intolerable

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It was the nadir of his career

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The lowest or most unsuccessful point in a situation; opposite to zenith

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They were treated as social pariahs

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An outcast; a person who has been rejected by their society or social group

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He gave her a lascivious wink

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Feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest or desire; lustful

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She ignored his lecherous gaze

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Having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire; lustful

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12
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Both tried to behave as if nothing untoward happened

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Unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient

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He delivered a light-hearted speech which belied his deep disappointments

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Fail to give a true impression of something

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Epiphany

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A moment of sudden and great revelation or realization

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Stars produce a beautiful luminescence

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Emission of light by a substance that has not been heated

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Freedom and solitude

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The state or situation of being alone

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17
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The planets were aligned in syzygy

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A conjunction or opposition, especially with the moon and the sun

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18
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They drank thesmelves into oblivion

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The State of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening around one

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He intended to stupefy her by making her smoke weed

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Make someone unable to think or feel properly

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Incandescence

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Emitting light aa a result of being heated; full of strong emotion; passionate

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Her face was aquiver with pleasure

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Quivering; trembling; The romantic sensations when your partner touches you

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Hiraeth

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Homesickness for a home you can never return to or never existed in the first place; The Japanese guy from the movie Queen

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23
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Somnambulist

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Sleepwalks

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24
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The ineffable beauty of the Himalayas

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Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words

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25
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His lectures were always soporific

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Inducing sleep

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26
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Auspicious time

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Favourable

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27
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Magnanimous

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Big-hearted; generous

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28
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He inculpated his friend

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Accuse or blame

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He is highly amenable

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Open and responsive to sugggestion; easily persuaded or controlled

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30
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Food which is compliant with safety regulations

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Meeting or in accordance with the rules or standards

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31
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Amorphous

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Shapeless

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32
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It looked like he wanted to conciliate with his opponents

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To make peace with; appease

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33
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The manager was extremely churlish

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Lacking manners; rude and unpleasant

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34
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A contentious topic/issue

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Involving heated argument; controversial

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35
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She had been chary of telling the whole truth

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Cautiously reluctant to do something

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36
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Lethargic

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Slow and sluggish in manner

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37
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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped or formed

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38
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Gandhi was venerated as the Father of the nation

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Regard with great respect; revere

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I vacillated between teaching and journalism

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Waver between different opinions or actions; being indecisive

40
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Waver

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To oscillate or fluctuate

41
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It is a gambit to skip all hard questions in GRE

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A move or action in which you risk something initially in the hope of future gain

42
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Vinod took umbrage at the prank that his friends played on him

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Offense or annoyance

43
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It is not easy to get his dander up

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To lose one’s temper; a feeling of anger

44
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He was finding it harder and harder to live with such a tempestuous woman; a tempestuous wind

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Characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion; very stormy

45
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He was trying to goad her into a fight

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Provoke or annoy someone so as to stimulate an action or reaction;

46
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He looked very contrite

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Feeling remorse or affected by guilt

47
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The river water was so pellucid

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Translucently clear

48
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The mercurial teacher was tough to handle

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Highly Moody; temperamental;

49
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Redundant

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No longer needed or useful; unnecessary; superfluous

50
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Avoid asking superfluous information

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Unnecessary; especially theough being more than enough

51
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Cacophony

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A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

52
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One of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be the first in class

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A mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual

53
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Whatever he speaks, it is always pithy

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Brief, to the point; brevity

54
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He drove his new sports car ostentatiously and got a ticket for speeding

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Pretentious act intended to impress; show off

55
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Vociferous

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Loud and vehement

56
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Today’s sportsmen are well lionized

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Give a lot of public attention and treat as a celebrity

57
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Rohan’s friends considered his coin collecting hobby as a frivolous activity

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Trivial; silly

58
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Benign

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Gentle or kindly

59
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Trained lions appear docile in the circus acts

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Compliant; submissive

60
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The police suspected chicanery

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Deception; trickery

61
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Providential

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Occuring at a favourable time

62
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His argument may now seem obvious and trite

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Lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse

63
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Succinct

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Brief, to the point; brevity; pithy

64
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Tumultuous

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Confused or disorderly

65
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Recalcitrant

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Disobedient; uncontrollable

66
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Profound idea

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Very great or intense; thoughtful

67
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Everything was a sham

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False; bogus

68
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Prodigy

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Young person with exceptional qualities and abilities

69
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Ascribed to

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Regard something as being due to(a cause)

70
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He is from the same milieu as his friend

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A person’s social environment

71
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Tenuous links between; a tenuous argument

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Very weak; slight; insubstantial

72
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Inordinate wealth; he spends inordinate time on the tv

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Something that’s excessive or goes way beyond the normal limits

73
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She cloaked her embarrassment

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Hide, cover or disguise(something)

74
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Preceded

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Come before something in time

75
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Antedated

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Come before sonething in date; precede

76
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A terse statement

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Abrupt;

77
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Quixotic

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Extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical

78
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We were a very demonstrative family

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Unrestrained in showing feelings; especially those of affection

79
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They accepted the conditions without demur

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Raise objections or show reluctance;

80
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2 members dissented from the majority

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Disagreement; holdibg or expression of opinions at variance with others in common

81
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The stigma of bankruptcy

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A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality or person

82
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Marginalize

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Treat as insignificant or perpheral

83
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Transcend

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Go beyond the range or limits of

84
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An apposite quotation

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Apt; appropriate

85
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His variegated talents

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Marked by variety

86
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The queen regent of Portugal

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Acting monarch; person appointed to administer a state because the monarch is a minor or is absent etc

87
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A felicitous feature; a felicitous phrase

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Pleasing and fortunate; apt

88
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The efforts were unavailing

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Achieving little or nothing; ineffective

89
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I admire his tenacity

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Determination and persistence

90
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Hackneyed old sayings

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Overused; unoriginal and trite

91
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Perennial

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Lasting for a long or apparently infinite time

92
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Intermittent rain

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Occuring at irregular intervals; sporadic

93
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Sprawl

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Spread out over a large area in an irregular way

94
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Impecunious family

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Having little or no money

95
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Besieged

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Surround and harass; be innundated by a large number of requests or complaints

96
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The country faces international censure for its alleged involvement

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Formal expression of severe disapproval

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