Deck 7 Flashcards by Katherine Cavanaugh | Brainscape

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Ingénue

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Naïve, unsophisticated person

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Flout

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Defy; reject

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Mendacious

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Given to lying

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Paucity

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Shortage

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Sophomoric

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Immature

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Venal

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Corrupt; can be bribed

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Mercenary

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Concerned only with money $$$$

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Protégé

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Someone under the protection or guided by another

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Veneer

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Surface coating

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Disparity

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An inequality or difference

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Fly–by-night

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unreliable; disreputable

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Mercurial

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Volatile; changeable

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Pedant

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Person who insists on strict adherence to rules or narrow learning

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Artifice

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Deception; trickery

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Forensic

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Concerned with argument or debate

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Banal

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Common; mundane; pedestrian

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Specious

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False

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Venial

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Minor; unimportant

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Fortitude

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Bravery

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Innocuous

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Harmless; inoffensive

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Peerless

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Without equal

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Ascetic

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Simple; self denying; severely simple. Like monks

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Coercion

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Force

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Diurnal

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Active in daytime

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Pejorative

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Derogatory

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Puerile

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Childish

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Sporadic

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Not continuous; intermittent

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Fractious

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Irritable; difficult to control

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Inscrutable

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Mysterious or impenetrable

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Mettle

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Courage; bravery; valor

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Pellucid

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Transparently clear

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Assuage

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To calm or make better

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Cogitate

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To ponder

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Insentient

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Unfeeling

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Pensive

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In thoughtful mood; thinking deeply

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Mire

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Swamp

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Penury

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Poverty

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly

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Staid

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Dull; sober; serious

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Vestigial

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Not developed

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Collage

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Arrange in order

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Dolt

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Stupid person

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Vignette

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Small sketch