Drill 1 Flashcards

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Unfounded

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Neosnovan

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Innocuous

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Benign, harmless

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Interminable

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Endless

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Plaintive

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Melanholic, full of sorrow

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Cessation

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Stop, end

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Heedlessness

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Nezainteresovanost, indifference

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Sedate

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Calm

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Lumbering

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Nezgrapan, useless

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Dexterous

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Adroit, skillfull

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Abiding

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Long lasting

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Protracted

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Long lasting, prolong

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Precarious

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Difficult

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Tenuous

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Unreasanoble, unsustainable

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Quivocall

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Ambiguous

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Villify

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Omalovažavati

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Aloof

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Not friendly, distant

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Demeanor

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Behaviour

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Propitiatory

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Ownership

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Uneqivocally

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Straightforward

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Garner

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Gather approval

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Exacerbate

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Aggravate, make sth worse

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Aggravate

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Exacerbate, make sth worse

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Placate

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Soothe, make smn less hostile

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Appease

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Umiriti, smiriti

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Scant

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Little, dearth

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Furtive

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Not obvious, secretive glance

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Copious

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Plethora, ample, abundance

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Solvent

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Strong

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Profuse

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Copious, ample

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Elucidated by

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Pojašnjeno, razjašnjeno

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Rife with

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Full of, replete with

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Replete with

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Full of, rife with

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Unencumbered by

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Nije otežano

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Exempted from

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Izuzeto od

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Virulent

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Otrovno

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Assuaging

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Less severe

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Monumental

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Great, enormous

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Discomfiting

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Discomfort

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Bolstering

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To bolst, to boost, to prop up

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Polemical

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Strongly critical, controversial speach or essay

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Divisive

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Razdeljujući

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Hegemonic

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Ruling or dominant in a politic or social content

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Incipient

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Inicijalan

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Nascent

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Coming into existence

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Waning

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Opadajući

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Flagging

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  1. Becoming tired or less dynamic

2. Declining in strength

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Voluble

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Talkative

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Querulous

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Nervozan, someone who complains a lot

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Eccentric

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Strange

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Proliferation

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Proširenje

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Conduit

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Vodovod

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Surfeit

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An excessuve amount of sth

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Burgeoning

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Rastući, šireći

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Inveterate

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Having a particular habit, activity.. unlikely to change

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Impertinent

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Rude

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Plaintive

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Sounding sad and mournful

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Oblique

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Not direct

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Abysmal

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Bez dna, extremely bad

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Dulcet

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Sweet and soothing, often used ironically

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Artless

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Naive

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Comely

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Pleasant to look at

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Inscrutable

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Enigmatic, mysterious, impossible to understand or interpred

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Ingenuous

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Genijalan

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Circuitous

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Kružni, zaobilazni

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Antediluvian

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Ancient, before the biblical flood

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Superannuated

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Old-fashioned

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Radical

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Far-reaching or thorough

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Perspicuous

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Upadljiv, lucid

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Adamant

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Nepopustljiv

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Opaque

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Neproziran, neprovidan

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Endeavors

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Behaviour

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Placate

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Umiriti

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Abstruse

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Neupadljiv, obscure

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Manifest

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Obvious

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Cryptic

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Enigmatic, mysterious

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Recalcitrant

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Nepokorljiv, rebellious

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Quaint

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Čudan, staromodan

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Germane

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Relevant to a subject under consideration, suitable

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Gentrified

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Changed

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Aplomb

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Self-confidence, especially when needed

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Bucolic

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Rural, idyllic

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Rancoroud

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Malicious, vicious, zloban

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Quiscent

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U stanju mirovanja

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Conglomerations

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Collection, formal

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Syllogisms

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Zaključak na osnovu premisa

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Idiosyncrasies

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Telesni skup neke osobe, a mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiae to an individual

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Insolvent

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Bankrupt

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Parsimonious

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Štedljiv

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Perfidious

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Deceitful and untrhostworthy

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Penurious

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Very poor, unviling to spend money

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Prodigal, profligate

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Wasteful

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Pugnacious

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Drzak, eager or quick to argue

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Compendium

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Collection of concise but detailed info about sth

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Elegy

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Lamen for the death

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Encomium

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Speech or text that praises smn or sth

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Jeremiad

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List of woed, jadi

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Philippic

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Bitter verbal attack

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Panegyric

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Speech or praise