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Chapter 4 Flashcards

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Audacious

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Willing to be bold in social situations or take risks

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Lambast

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Criticize severely or angrily

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Inexorable

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Impossible to stop or prevent

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Aesthete

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One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature

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Apathetic

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Marked by a lack of interest

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Superfluous

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More than is needed desired or required

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Querulous

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Habitually complaining

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Volubility

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The quality of talking or writing easily or continuously

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Predilection

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A strong liking

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Frivolous

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Not serious

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Vociferous

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Conspicuously and offensively loud

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Glut

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An excessive supply

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Specious

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Fallacious

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Timorous

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Meek

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Subversion

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Undermining of power and authority of an established system or institution

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Affected

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Artificial

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Engendered

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Cause or give rise to

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Occasioned

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To cause something

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Dissemble

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To lie/ conceal

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Feign

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Fake

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Tractable

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Manageable

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Doggedness

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Someone who never gives up
Tenacity

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Probity

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Morality

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Pertinacity

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Doggedness
Tenacity

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Admonished

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Rebuked, reprimanded

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Spurious

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Fake
Counterfeit
Plausible but false

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Connoisseur

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Expert

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Chauvinism

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Excessive patriotism

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Mitigate

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Make less severe or harsh

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Rustic

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Characteristic of rural life, awkwardly simple and provincial

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Incisive

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Having or demonstrating ability to recognise or draw fine distinctions

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Mawkish

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Overly sentimental to the point that it is disgusting

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Gainsay

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Deny or contradict, speak against or oppose

34
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Chortle

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To chuckle, laugh merrily often in a breathy, muffled way

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