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Dedicated Vocab Sesh 1 Flashcards

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Insipid

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Lacking flavor, tasteless

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Congenial

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Amiable, easily persuable

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Adulterate

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Render poorer in quality by adding another substance

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Aggrandize

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Increase the power status or wealth of

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Alacrity

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Brisk and cheerful

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Avaricious

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Extreme greed for wealth or material gain

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Benign

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Gentle or kind

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Brazen

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Bold without shame

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Calumny

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Making false defame remarks and statements about someone

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Castigate

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Repremand harshly

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Construe

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Interpret in a particular way

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Contrite

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Expressing remorse and being apologetic

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Covet

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Eager to poses something belonging to other (avaricious)

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Craven

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Coward

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Deft

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Neatly skilfull and quick in movement

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Demur

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Raise objections

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Diatribe

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Verbal attack against someone or something

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Ingenious

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Clever, original, inventive

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Abate

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Become less intense ( going down)

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Abjure

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Give up a belief cause or claim

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Anomalous

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Deviation from normal

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Arcane

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Understood by few, mystery, secret

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Arduous

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Difficult and tiring, requiring strength

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Artless

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Natural and simple

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Ascetic

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Self discipline for relegious reasons

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Assuage

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Make less intense

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Bucolic

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Pleasant aspect of country side

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Burgeon

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Being to grow rapidly, flourish

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Cacophony

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Harsh sound

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Canonize

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Declare a dead person to be a saint

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Censure

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Express severe disapproval

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Chicanery

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Use deception to achieve a purpose ( dhokha)

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Coalesce

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Come together to form one mass or whole

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Cogent

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Clear, logical and convincing argument

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Copious

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Abundant amount

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Cosmopolitan

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From all over world, including people from many country

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Desultory

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Lacking plan and purpose

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Diffident

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Modest or shy bec lack of self confidence

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Dilatory

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Delay

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Verbose

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Expressed in more words than needed

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Approbation

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Approval or praise

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Emulate

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Imitate

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Enervate

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Drained of energy

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Ephemeral

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Lasting short period

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Fervid

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Enthusiastic intensly

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Incendiary

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Tending to stir up conflict or designed to cause fires

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Inimical

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Obstruction or harm

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Paradigmatic

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Typical example.

his biography is paradigmatic of the experiences of this generation”

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Pedantic

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Over concerned with minor details

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Scrupulous

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Concerned over minor detail

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Polemical

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Strong critical writing or speech

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Profundity

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Depth of insight and knowledge

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Prophetic

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Accurate prediction of future

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Prudent

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Showing care for the future

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Punctilious

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Showing great attention to detail

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Recondite

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Little known

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Vacillate

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Indecisive between different options

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Behoove

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Duty or responsibility for b someone to do something

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Scourage

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A thing that causes trouble or suffering (whip)

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Panacea

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A solution

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Annihilate

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Destroy

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Demarcate

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Det boundaries or limits, separate from

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Ordeal

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Unpleasant experience

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Diligent

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Showing care

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Formidable

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Powerful, intense, daunting

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Reticent

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Not revealing ones thoughts

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Fawning

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Obsequious

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Circumspect

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Wary, unwilling to take risk

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Utopian

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Quixotic

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Heedless

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Negligent

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Austere

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Severe or strict

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Servile

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Obsequious

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Congenial

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Pleasing

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Cynical

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Misanthrope

75
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Promulgated

A

Disseminate

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