Elevate vocab Flashcards

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Meticulous

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Precise accordance with details

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Effusive

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Extravagantly demonstrative

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3
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Irascible

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Quickly aroused to anger

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4
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Fastidious

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Attentive to detail

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5
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Extroverted

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Very outgoing or expressive

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6
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Obstreperous

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Noisily and stubbornly defiant

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7
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Flounder

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To have difficulties or behave awkwardly

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8
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Subversive

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In opposition to a civil authority or gov.

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Emphatic

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Forceful and definite in expression

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10
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Denizen

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A person who inhabits a particular place

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11
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Garish

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Tastelessly showy

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12
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Carp

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To raise trivial objections

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13
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Impetus

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Force that moves something along

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14
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Coercion

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The act of compelling by force of authority

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15
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Prevaricate

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Speak in an evasive way (evasive means indirectly)

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16
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Desolate

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Deserted, bleak and dismal emptiness

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Opulent

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Extremely rich and superior in quality

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Malaise

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Feeling of discomfort

19
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Anoint

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To choose by or as if by divine intervention

20
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Stymie

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To hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

21
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Equivocate

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Use ambiguity to conceal the truth. (Ambiguity means uncertainty, vagueness)

22
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Panoply

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Array of items or a complete collection

23
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Rescind

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To cancel officially

24
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Chagrin

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Distress from having been humiliated or failed

25
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Illicit

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Contrary to or forbidden by law, rules, or custom

26
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Tyranny

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Form of government with an absolute dictator

27
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Stagnant

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Having no flow or activity, dull

28
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Dissipate

A

Dissolve

29
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Baroque

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Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation

30
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Inspire

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To spur on

31
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Feckless

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Generally incompetent and ineffectual (Incompetent means not being able to do something successfully) (ineffectual means not producing a desired effect)

32
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Sidereal

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Adj. Determined by or from the stars

33
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Criticastor

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An incompetent critic

34
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Incompetent

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Lacking qualification or ability, incapable