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Direct Hits Affixes Vocabulary 5 Flashcards

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anti

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against

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sub

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under

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multi

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many

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peri

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around

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Paramount

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vital

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e-, ex-

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out

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Expunge, Excise, Expurgate

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to take out; to delete; to remove

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Eccentric

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literally out of the center; departing from a recognized, convetional, or established norm; an odd, unconventional person

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Extricate

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to get out of a difficult situation or entanglement

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Exemplary

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standing out from the norm; outstanding; worthy of imitation

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Enumerate

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to count out; to list; to tick off the reasons for

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Elusive

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out of reach and therefore difficult to catch, define, or describe

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Exorbitant

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literally out of orbit and therefore unreasonably expensive

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Grandiose

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pretentious

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re-

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back, again

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Redundant

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needlessly repetitive; saying things again and again

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Implore

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urge

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Repudiate, Recant, Renounce

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to take back; to reject; to disavow

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Relinquish

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to surrender or give back (or return) a possession, right, or privilege

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Resilient

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bouncing back from adversity or misfortune; recovering quickly

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Reaffirm

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to assert again; to confirm; state positively

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Reticent

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holding back one’s thoughts, feelings and personal affairs; restrained or reserved

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Revered

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deeply respected or admired

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Rebuff

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to repel or drive back; to bluntly reject

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Renovate
to make new again; restore by repairing and remodeling
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Rejuvenate
to make young again; to restore youthful vigor and appearance
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juvenis
young
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Resurgent
rising again; sweeping or surging back
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Repugnant
abhorrent; offensive to the mind or senses; causing distaste or aversion
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pugn, pug
fighting (from pugnus, a fist)
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Pugnacious
disposed to fight, quarrelsome, combative
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Pugilist
a boxer, one who fights with his fists
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Repugnance
fighting back, extreme dislike, aversion, disgust, antipathy
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Impugn
to fight against, attack, challenge, the motives of
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de-
down
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Deleterious
going down in the sense of having a harmful effect; injurious
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Sedentary
lacking physical activity
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Decry
to put down in the sense of openly condemning; to express strong dissaproval
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Bohemian
characteristic of artists or intellectuals who live without regard for conventional rules
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Despondent, Morose
downcast; very dejected; forlorn
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Denounce
to put down in the sense of a making a formal accusation; to speak against
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Demise
sent down in the sense of ending in death; the cessation of existence or activity
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Debunk
to put down by exposing false and exaggerated claims
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Hearsay
rumor
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Deride, Derisive
to put down with contemtuous jeering; to ridcule or laugh at
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Devoid
down in the sense of being empty; completely lacking in substance or quality; bereft; vacant
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im-, in-, ir-, il-
no, not
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Impeccable
having no flaws; perfect
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Implacable
not capable of being placated or appeased
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Inexorable
not capable of being stopped; relentless; inevitable
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Incoherent
not coherent and therefore lacking organization; lacking logical or meaningful connections
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Insurmountable
not capable of being surmounted or overcome
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Irreverent
lacking proper respect of seriousness; disrespectful
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Irresolute
not resolute; uncertain how to act or proceed; indecisive; vacillating
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Melancholy
gloomy
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ad-
to, toward
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com-
with
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Colloquium
a speaking together
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dis-
apart
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Dispel
to push in different directions
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ob-
against, toward
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sub-
under, up from below
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circu-
around
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Circumspect
looking carefully around - thus cautious and careful; prudent; discreet
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Reiterates
repeats
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Circuitous
circular and therefore indirect in language, behavior, or action, roundabout
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Circumvent
to circle around and therefore bypass; to avoid by artful maneuvering
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Circumscribe
to draw a line around and therefore to narrowly limit or restrict actions
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-ous
filled with, having the qualities of
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Magnanimous
filled with generosity and forgivenesss; forgoing resentment and revenge
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Erroneous
filled with errors; wrong
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Momentous
filled with important; very significant
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Steadfast
fixed, unswerving
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Mandated
ordered
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Mellifluous
smooth and sweet; flowering like honey
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Ominous
filled with menace; threatening
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Portend
foretell
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Acrimonious
filled with bitterness; sharpness in words; rancorous
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Copious
filled with abundance; plentiful
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Abstemious
filled with moderation; temperate in eating and drinking
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Malodorious
filled with an unpleasant odor; foul-smelling
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Emit
give off
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Tedious
filled with boredom; very tiresome; dull and fatiguing
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Heinous, Egregious
flagrantly, conspicuously bad; abominable; chockingly evil; monstrous; outrageous
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Turpitude
evil
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Infamous
widel but unfavorably known perpetrator (person who commits a bad act)
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Gratuitous
unwarranted; not called for by circumstances; unnecessary
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Precarious, Perilous
uncertain; characterized by a lack of security or stability
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Surpassed
to go beyond

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