Chapter I Flashcards by Teddy Li

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Lexicon

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Vocabulary of a person

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Dearth/Paucity

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Scarcity

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Prattle

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Foolishly speaking, babbling

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Wry

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Dry, intellectual humor, ironic

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Painstaking

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Meticulous, careful

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Diffident

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No self confidence

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Evocation

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Imaginative recreation

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Recalcitrant

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Obstinate, obdurate

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Boon

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Blessing

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Bane

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Ruin

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Surreptitious

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Secret

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Gregarious

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Friendly

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Upbraid/reproach/castigate

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Disapproval

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Propitious/auspicious

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Favorable

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Impasse

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Deadlock

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Anachronism

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False assignment where things do not exist

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Belie

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Contradict

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Mollify/assuage

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Alleviate, relieve

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Aloof

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Distant

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Trite/hackneyed/banal/insipid/platitudinous

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Cliché, unoriginal

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Enigmatic/inscrutable

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Mysterious

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Acquiesce

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Comply, give in, agree

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Endemic

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Indigenous, native

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Ubiquitous/prevalent

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Omnipresent, everywhere

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Pandemic

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Large scale/proportion, geographically widespread

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Fortitude

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Strength of mind