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Exquisite Adjectives Flashcards

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Adroit

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Clever and resourceful

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Adamant

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A very hard substance: unyielding

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Amatory

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Sexual

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Animistic

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Quality of recurrence

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Antic

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Clownish

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Arcadian

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Serene

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Baleful

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Deadly, foreboding

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Bellicose

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Quarrelsome (it’s synonym belligerent can also be a noun)

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Bilious

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Unpleasant, peevish

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Boorish

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Crude and insensitive

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Calamitous

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Disastrous

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Caustic

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Corrosive or sarcastic: a corrosive substance

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Cerulean

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Sky blue

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Comely

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Attractive

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Concomitant

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Accompanying

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Contumacious

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Rebellious

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Corpulent

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Obese or excessively fat

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Crapulous

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Immoderate in appetite

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Defamatory

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Maliciously misrepresenting

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Didactic

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Conveying information or moral instruction

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Dilatory

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Causing delay or tardy

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Dowdy

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Shabby, old-fashioned: an unkempt woman

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Efficacious

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Producing a desired effect

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Effulgent

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Brilliantly radiant

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Egregious

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Conspicuous or incredibly/morally wrong

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Endemic

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Peculiar to an area

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Equanimous

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Even or balanced: equal

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Execrable

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Wretched, detestable

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Fastidious

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Overly delicate, showing great attention to detail

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Feckless

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Weak, irresponsible

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Fecund

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Prolific or inventive

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Friable

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Brittle

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Fulsome

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Abundant or overdone

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Garrulous

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Wordy and talkative

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Guileless

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Naive

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Gustatory

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Concerned with the tasting or the sense of taste.

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Heuristic

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Learning through trial-and-error or problem solving

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