Big Flashcards by Pat Lavellan | Brainscape

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cogent

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Strong and to the point

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Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

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Exigent

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Urgent

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Solicitous

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Showing care or worry

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Celerity

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Speed

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Engender

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To bring about

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Feign

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To make up or invent

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Vehement

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Strongly emotional

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Inveigh

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To attack strongly in words

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Surmise

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To draw a conclusion

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Pastoral

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Having to do with the country

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Egregious

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Standing out sharply as wrong or bad

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Abscond

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To leave in a illegal hurry

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Cryptic

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Hard to understand

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Overt

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Public

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Subtext

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The hidden or underlying meaning of something

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Esprit

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Liveliness

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Discursive

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Wandering from one topic to another

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Concur

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To agree in an opinion or decision

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Succor

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Badly needing help

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Obsequious

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Too willing to serve or obey

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Segue

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Movement from one thing to another

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Ensue

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To come after

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Mores

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Attitude or behaviors that are followed like laws

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Morose

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Gloomy

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Artifice

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Clever trickery

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Iconoclast

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A person who attacks or mocks things most people believe in

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Purview

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Range of skills or authority

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Capitulate

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To yield

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Caprice

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Sudden change of intention

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Anathema

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Something hated or strongly avoided

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Loquacious

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Very talkative

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Circumlocution

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Roundabout or overly long way of saying something

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Colloquy

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Formal conversation or dialogue

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Coniferous

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Loud and noisy in making one’s feelings known

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Reticent

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Not saying much tight-lipped

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Tacit

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Understood as meant but not openly said

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Verbiage

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An over abundance of words

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Verbose

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Using too many words

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Adumbrate

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To briefly outline or describe

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Apprise

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To make aware of

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Derisive

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Treating with ridicule

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Risible

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Drawing laughter or amusement

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Felicitous

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Perfectly suitable

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Abstruse

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Difficult to grasp or learn

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Adroit

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Skillful or clever

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Vacuous

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Empty of intelligence

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Tenable

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Able to be defended

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Contend

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To argue or dispute

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Tendentious

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Strongly biased