Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Articulate

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clear; licid; eloquent

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clientele

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customers

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disparity

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an inequality

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fly-by-niht

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unreliable; disreputable

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inimical

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hostile

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mercurial

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volatile; changeable

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pedant

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person who insists on strict adherence to rules or narrow learning

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protocol

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proceder; code of behavior

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sparse

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spare; bare; meager

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venerate

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revere; worship

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artifice

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deception; tricky

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coalesce

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come together; merge

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dispassionate

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neutral; objective

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forensic

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concerned with argument or debate (esp. for legal evidence

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innate

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inherited; inborn

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merge

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come together

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pedestrian

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common; mundane;banal

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provincial

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unsophisticated; narrow-minded

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specious

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false

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venial

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minor; unimportant