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ESL Essential Words14 Flashcards

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Pensive

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Thoughtful. Thinking seriously

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Perjury

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Lying under oath

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Peruse

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To read carefully

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Phlegmatic

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Slow to respond. Not easily excited

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Plagiarize

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Using another’s words as your own

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Plausible

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Seemingly true. apparently believable

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Posthumous

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Arising or occurring after one’s death

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Precocious

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Showing advanced development at an early age

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Potpourri

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Mixture. Medley

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Procrastinate

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Delay

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Prognosticate

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Predict

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Prolific

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Producing much. Fertile

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Quandary

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Dilemma. Condition of doubt

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Rabid

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Fanatical. Furious. Infected with rabies

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Rendezvous

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Meeting place.meeting by arrangement

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Rescind

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To cancel. To repeal

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Sanguine

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Confident. Hopeful. Optimistic

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Simile

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Figure of speech using as or like in which two different things are compared

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Skeptic

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One who doubts consistently. One who is hard to convince

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Slander

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False oral statement designed to damage a person’s reputation

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Sporadic

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Occurring at irregular times

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Superficial

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Not deep. On the surface only

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Taciturn

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Silent. Reserved. Uncommunicative

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Terse

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Brief. To the point

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Thwart

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To hinder. Block

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Trite

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Overused. Commonplace

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Utopia

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Paradise. A place where everything is perfect

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Vacillate

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To waver back and forth

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Verbose

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Wordy. Using more words than is necessary

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Vindicate

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Clear. Acquit. Exonerate

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Volatile

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Explosive. Changeable

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