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Common Words V Flashcards

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accolade

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an award or praise granted as a special honor

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Ravenous

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extremely hungry; devouring or craving food in great quantities

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Arcane

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requiring secret or mysterious knowledge

understood by few; mysterious or secret.

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Inimical

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Hostile (usually describes conditions or environments)

unfriendly

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Munificent

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very generous

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Inscrutable

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not easily understood, unfathomable

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Vacillate

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verb be undecided about something, waver between conflicting positions or courses of action

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Foment

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try to stir up public opinion

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Insolent

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rude and arrogant

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Sanction-

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give authority or permission to, a legal penalty for a forbidden action

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Precipitous

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done with very great haste and without due deliberation

very high or steep

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Circumscribe-

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restrict or confine

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Ostracize

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exclude from a community or group

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Scrupulous

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characterized by extreme care and great effort; having a sense or right and wrong, principled

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Inveterate-

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habitual- adj

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Winsome

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charming in a childlike or naive way

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Antithetical

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sharply contrasted in character or purpose

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Brazen

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unrestrained by convention or propriety

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Sporadic

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recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances

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Irrevocable-

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incapable of being retracted or revoked

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Lionize

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assign great social importance to

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Pedestrian

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lacking imagination

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Audacity

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aggressive boldness in social situations

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Obsequious

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attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner, attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

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Arbitrary

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based on a random, groundless decision

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Sycophant

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a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

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Prolific

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intellectually productive, being in large numbers

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Pernicious

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exceedingly harmful; working or spreading in a hidden or injurious way

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Dilettante

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an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

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Poignant

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emotionally touching

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Reverent

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feeling or showing profound respect or veneration

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Hegemony

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dominance over a certain area

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Haphazard

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marked by great carelessness, dependent upon or characterized by chance

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Propitious

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presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success

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Tempered

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moderated in effect

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Austere

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practicing self denial, unadorned in style or appearance, harsh in manner of temperament

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Subversive

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in opposite to an established system or institution

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Trite

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repeated too often, overfamiliar through overuse

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Intrepid

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fearless

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Garrulous

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full of trivial conversation

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Resurgent

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rising again as to new life and vigor

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Gauche

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lacking social polish

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Tractable

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readily reacting to suggestions and influences; easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)

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Prodigious

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so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe

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Rescind

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Cancel Officially

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Constituent

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a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes, an abstract part of something

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Taciturn

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habitually reserved and uncommunicative

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Admonish

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to warn strongly, even to the point of reprimanding

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Repudiate

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reject as untrue or unfounded

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Myriad-

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a large indefinite number

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