english Flashcards

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eulogy

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praise speech for someone’s life at a funeral

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pulchritudinous

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physically beautiful and attractive

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meretricious

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attractive on the surface but having in reality no value or substance

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4
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reticent

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keeping to yourself; not likely to dram attention to yourself; uncommunicative

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5
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perfidious

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disloyal, unfaithful

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pernicious

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extremely destructive or harmful

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7
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sobriquet

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nickname

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8
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taciturn

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silent, not talkative

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ineffable

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unspeakable, incapable of being expressed through words

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prevaricate

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to avoid giving a direct answer or deviate from the truth

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assiduous

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hard-working, diligent

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fervent

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having intense feeling or passion for something

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13
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agriculture

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the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.

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