English Exam Review Words Flashcards
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Cacography
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Really bad handwriting
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Altruistic
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Goodness of your heart
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Sinister
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Creepy, bad, evil
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Epitome
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Perfect example
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Entomologist
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One who study bugs
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Ambidextrous
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Uses both left and right hand
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Incongruous
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Doesn’t go together
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Dermatologist
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One who works with skin problems
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Unconscionable
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Mean, doesn’t care
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Empathetic
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Feeling someone’s feelings
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Disparage
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Play down, put down
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Equinox
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Equal day and night
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Adulate
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Flatter someone lavishly
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Iniquity
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Sinfulness
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Placate
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Changes hostility to friendliness, to calm
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Double Entendre
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Statement with two meanings
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Malign
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Slander
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Obviate
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To make something unnecessary
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Parity
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Equality
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Disparity
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Inequality
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Proscribe
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Forbidden
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Equivocate
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Deliberately vague
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Equilateral
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Equal sides
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Ambiguous
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Open to misinterpretation
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Vociferous
Noisy, loud
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Amble
Walk aimlessly
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Verbose
Use more words than necessary
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Dorsal
Referring to the back
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Loquacious
Talkative
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Ventral
Referring to the front
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Cogent
Forceful, convincing
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Somnolent
Drowsy, sleepy
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Banal
Hackneyed, unoriginal
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Revolution
Causing radical changes
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Laconic
Economy in the use of words
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Eloquence
Expressiveness in the use of words
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Garrulous
Talk a lot with little meaning
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Magnum Opus
Masterpiece
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Soliloquy
Talk to ones self
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Verbatim
Word from word
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Tacit
Unspoken agreement
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Evolve
Gradually developing
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Circumlocution
Indirect
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Colloquial
Informal conversation
