English vocab Flashcards by Alonna DePalma

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Extemporizing

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Improvising

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Fractiousness

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Quarrelsomeness, irritable

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Languidly

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Sluggishly, lifeless

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Peremptorily

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Urgently; commandingly, dictaroially

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Supercilious

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Coolly superior, arrogant, pompous, haughty

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Contiguous

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Next to, adjacent

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Indeterminate

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vague, indefinable

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Strident

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Harsh, insistent, grating, or shrill

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Trascendent

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Superior; rising above, surpassing the ordinary

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Convival

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Festive, sociable, cheerful, friendly, jovial

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Corpulent

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Stout, portly, fat

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Erroneous

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Mistaking, wrong, incorrect

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Insolent

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Overbearing, rude, sassy, cheeky

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Prodigality

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Lavishness, wasteful extravagance

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Provincial

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Unsophisticated, a person lacking urban polish or refinement.

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Denizen

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A frequent visitor; a regular

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Disconcerning

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Embarrasing; jarring, troubling

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Punctilious

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Careful; exacting, meticulous

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Gaudily

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Flashily (in a bad way)

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Nebulous

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Indistinct, hazy

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Scanty

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Less than sufficient, skimpy

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Vestige

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a trace

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Dilatory

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tardy, slow to act

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Ineffable

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Indescribable

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Igratiate

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To gain favor by flattery

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Insidious

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Treacherous, stealthy

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Laudable

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Commendable; praiseworthy

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Oblivious

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Unconcerned; forgetful, unaware

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Irreverent

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Lacking proper respect, disdainful

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Morbid

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Gloomy; gruesome

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Precipitately

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Sudden, rushed, hurried

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Prig

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An obnoxiously proper person, prude

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Amorphous

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Shapeless

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Commensurate

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Proportionate

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Fortuitously

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Happening by chance, lucky

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Protege

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Persons trained, influenced, and helped a long by others, apprentice, follower, pupil

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Redolent

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Aromatic

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Unscrupulously

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In an unprincipled manner, not honest or fair

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Reverent

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Awed and respectful

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Superfluous

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Excessive; unneccesary