Daily Flashcards by Vanshika Singh | Brainscape

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Hangdog

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Guilty

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Propinquity

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Proximity

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Quibble

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To evade truth, sophistry

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Perestroika

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Reconstruction

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Prescient

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Foresighted

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Ultra vires

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Beyond legal power

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Ad nauseum

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Iteration

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Manichean

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Dual

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Machivalliean

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Dubious

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De riguer

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Proper

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Non sequiter

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Stratagem

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Sybarite

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Ias officer who got suspended

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Vicissitudes

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Tukke

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Scupper

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Spoil, wreck, mar

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Retribution

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Reprisal, nemesis, doom, fate

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Ex nihilo

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On its own

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Hamstrung

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Obstruct efficiency of

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Hamstrung

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Obstruction of efficiency

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Cabal

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Clique, snollygoster

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Sultriness

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Uncomfortableness

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Repudiate

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Reject

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Ancillary

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Adjuvant,appurtenance

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Corall

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Confine or gather(together)

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Armageddon

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Catacylsm, catastrophe

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Omniscient

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All knowing

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Ascendant

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Preponderant

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Munificence

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Beneficence, benevolence, magnanimity,.generosity

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Semblance

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Facade, pretence

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Aplomb

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Self confidence in difficult situation

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Monolith

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Fossilised, rigid

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Untethered

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Unfastened

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Maldorous

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Smelling unpleasant

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Perverse

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Wicked

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Slavish

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Submissive

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Styloid

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Slender

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Panygric

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Eulogy

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Ennui

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Langour, lassitude, tedium

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Egress

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Exit

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Abstruse

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Hidden

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Aberrant

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Atypical, digressive, deviant, anomalous

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Behoof

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Benefit

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Apprise

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Inform someone

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Vituperation

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Obloquy, invective, billingsgate

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Surmise

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Assume

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Enervate

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Subvert

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Opprobrium

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Harsh criticism

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Rectitude

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Ant. Turpitude

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Quiescent

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Normancy

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Bete noire

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Pet peeve

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Cavil

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Complain

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Crestfallen

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Saddened

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Petulant

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Irascible

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Guffaw

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Scoff

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Cloy

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Sickingly sweet

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Stupor

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Asphyxia, slumber, stupefaction, daze, trance

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Mercurial

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Capricious, whimsical, fickle, giddy, labile

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Mongrel

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Hybrid

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Comeuppance

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Wrath

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Moribund

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About to end

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Ascendant

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Dominant

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Thrall

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Yoke

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Slander

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Calumny, calumniation, aspersion, hatchet job, denigration

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Minnow

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Small and unimportant person or organisation

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Sedate

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Serious

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Baronial

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Impressive in appearance

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Cudgel

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Bludgeon