Day 25-27 Flashcards by Stephen Kim | Brainscape

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portend

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to indicate a future

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tedium

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boredom, tiresome

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blight

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to afflict, to destroy

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prodigal

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wastefully or recklessly extravagent

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impugn

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to challenge as false

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expropriate

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to seize ownership

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fractious

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troublesome, unruly

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paucity

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smallness of quantity, scarcity

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incisive

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perceptive, penetrating

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capitulate

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to submit completely

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acrimonious

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biting, harsh, caustic

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sycophant

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self-serving flatterer

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recalcitrant

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resisting authority or control

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castigate

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to punish, chastise

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ostracize

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to exclude from a group

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belabor

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to explain, worry about

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espouse

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to support to advocate

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ubiquitous

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existing everywhere, omnipresent

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virulent

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actively poisonous, hostile

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enervate

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to reduce the energy or strength

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corroborate

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supporting with evidence

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desultory

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at random, rambling

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peremptory

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leaving no opportunity for denial

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torpid

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inactive, sluggish

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countermand

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to annul, cancel

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mercurial

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quick, changeable

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maladroit

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clumsy, bungling

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harbinger

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frontier, precursor, forefather

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commodious

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roomy, spacious

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banal

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devoid of freshness or quality

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eclectic

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selective

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continence

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self-control, self restrained

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placate

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to appease, pacify

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choleric

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extremely irritable or easily angered

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jocular

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joking, jesting, waggish

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demarcation

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borderline, act of defining or marking a boundary

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ply

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to use diligently, to engage

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impute

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to credit or give responsibility

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strident

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grating, creaking

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discomfit

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to frustrate

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obdurate

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unwilling to change, stubborn

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vignette

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decorative design

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sequester

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to remove, be set apart

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juducious

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wise, sensible, well advised

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remiss

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negligent, lazy

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lithe

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bending readily, pliant, flexible

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despondent

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feeling or showing profound hopelessness

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rectitude

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rightness of principle or conduct

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decrepit

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weakened by old age, feeble

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spurious

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lacking authenticity, counterfeit

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squalid

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filthy, morally repulsive

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duplicity

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deception

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devoid

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deplete, strip

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remuneration

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something that rewards, pay

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perquisite

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benefit, privilege

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venal

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characterized by bribery

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fallow

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not in use

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frenetic

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widely frantic

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chimerical

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unreal, imaginary