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Essential Words XIV Flashcards

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Prodigal

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Wasteful, extravagant; giving abundantly, lavish

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Prodigious

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Extraordinarily large, impressive, etc.

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Profligate

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Completely and shamelessly immoral, or extremely wasteful

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Profound

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Very insightful, penetrating deeply into a subject; pervasive, intense, “down to the very bottom”; at the very bottom

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Profuse

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Abundant, extravagant, giving or given freely

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Prohibitive

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Tending to forbid something, or serving to prevent something

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Proliferate

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Increase or spread rapidly or excessively

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Prologue

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Introductory part to a book, play, etc.

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Pronounced

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Distinct, strong, clearly indicated

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Propriety

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Conforming to good manners or appropriate behavior; justness

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Prosaic

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Dull, ordinary

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Proscribe

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Prohibit, outlaw; denounce; exile or banish

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Prospective

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Potential, in the future

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Prudent

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Wise in practical matters, carefully providing for the future

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Pugnacious

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Inclined to fight, combative

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Qualified

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Modified, limited, conditional on something else

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Quandary

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Uncertainty or confusion about what to do, dilemma

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Quibble

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Make trivial arguments or criticisms, find faults in a petty way, esp. to evade something more important

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Quotidian

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Daily; everyday, ordinary

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Ranks

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Personnel; a group of people considered all together

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Reap

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Harvest, such as by cutting; gather; get as a result of one’s effort

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Recluse

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Person who lives in seclusion

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Refute

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Prove to be false

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Relegate

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Send or commit to an inferior place, rank, condition, etc.; exile, banish; assign (a task) to someone else

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Remedial

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Providing a remedy, curative; correcting a deficient skill

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Render

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Give, submit, surrender; translate; declare formally; cause to become

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Replete

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Supplied in abundance, filled, gorged (used with with)

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Reproach

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Blame, disgrace; criticize, express disappointment in

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Repudiate

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Reject, cast off, deny that something has authority

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Requite

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Reciprocate, repay, or revenge

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Rescind

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Annul, repeal, make void

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Resolution

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The quality of being firmly determined; resolving to do something; a formal judgement, esp. decided by a vote

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Resolve

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Find a solution to; firmly decide to do something; decide by formal vote; firmness of purpose

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Respectively

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In the order given

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Restive

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Restless; impatient or uneasy under the control of another

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Reticent

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Not talking much; private (of a person), restrained, reserved

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Retrospective

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Looking to the past of backward; applying to the past, retroactive; an art exhibit of an artist’s work over a long period of time

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Reverent

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Feeling or expressing very deep respect and awe

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Rhetoric

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The art or study of persuasion through speaking or writing; language that is elaborate or pretentious but actually empty, meaning little

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Rife

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Happening frequently, abundant, currently being reported

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Rudimentary

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Elementary, relating to the basics; undeveloped, primitve

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Rustic

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Relating to country life, unsophisticated; primitive; made of rough wood; a rural or uncultured person

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Sacrosanct

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Sacred, inviolable, not to be trespassed on or violated; above any criticism

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Sagacious

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Wise; showing good judgement and foresight

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Salubrious

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Healthful, promoting health

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Sanction

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Permission or approval, something that gives support or authority to something else; to allow, confirm, ratify; a legal action by one or more countries agains another country to get it to comply; to place sanctions or penalties on.

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Sanguine

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Cheerful optimistic, hopeful; reddish, ruddy (as in rosy-red cheeks indicting health or vitality)

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Sap

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The inner fluid of a plant or any essential body fluid; energy, vitality; a person taken advantage of; undermine, weaken, tire out

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Satiate or sate

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To fully satisfy; to go beyond satisfy to the point of excess

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Saturate

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Soak or imbue thoroughly; cause a substance to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance

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