Deck 7 Flashcards

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Platitude

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a repeat

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Plait

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to braid

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Pliant

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yielding

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Plucky

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spunky

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Pneumatic

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related to air

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Polemic

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an argument

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Polyglot

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multilingual

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Pontificate

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to ramble

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Portent

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omen

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Posterity

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descendents

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Potable

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drinkable

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Precept

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law

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Precipitous

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hasty

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Preclude

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eliminate

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Predicate

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to base on

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Preeminent

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celebrated or famous

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Preponderance

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majority view

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Presage

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to fortell

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Prescient

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have foresight

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Pretext

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an excuse

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Prevaricate

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to lie

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Privation

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loss of wealth

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Probity

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honesty

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Profligate

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corrupt

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Profuse

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to lavish out

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Promontory

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high ground

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Promulgate

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to make famous

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Propensity

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inclination

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Propitiate

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to win over

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Propitious

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favorable

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Proponent

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advocate of

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Prosaic

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common

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Propinquity

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nearness

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Proselytize

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to convert

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Protagonist

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main character

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Protean

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amorphous

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Prude

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civil

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Prurient

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lustful

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Puerile

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childish

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Pugilism

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boxing

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Pugnacious

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quarrelsome

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Pulchritude

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beauty

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Purport

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to claim

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Quandary

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a dilemma

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Quaternary

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4 units

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Quiescence

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inactivity

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Quixotic

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impractical

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Quotidian

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daily

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Raconteur

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witty

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Ramification

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consequence