Extra Vocab

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compendium

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abbreviated communication

concise treatment; summary

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cursory

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abbreviated communication

hasty, going quickly over something

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headlong

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act quickly

without delay, hastily; done quickly and suddenly

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abet

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assist

to encourage, support, especially in wrong doing

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ancillary

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assist

auxillary

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countenance

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assist

1. face, appearance. 2. approval, encouragement

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mainstay

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assist

chief support, part

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stalwart

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assist

strong, brave, steadfast

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bilious

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bad mood

irritable, cranky, unpleasant, distasteful

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dudgeon

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bad mood

feeling of offense or resentment; anger

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irascible

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bad mood

easily provoked to anger, irritable

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pettish

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bad mood

petulantly peevish

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petulant

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bad mood

moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over something trivial

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pique

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bad mood

to wound or irritate

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querulous

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bad mood

complaining in a petulant or whiny manner

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umbrage

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bad mood

offense, annoyance

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waspish

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bad mood

like a wasp, crabby, irritable

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munificent

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assist

very generous

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novitiate

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beginner/amateur

a novice

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proselyte

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beginner/amateur

a convert

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incipient

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beginning/young

in an initial stage

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trenchant

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biting temperament

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mordacious

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biting temperament

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apace

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act quickly

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corroborate

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assist

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insipid

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boring

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libidinous

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carousal lustful

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bacchanalian

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carousal given to drunken revelry

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iniquity

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carousal immoral or grossly unfair behavior

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libertine

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carousal a person who indulges in sensual pleasures regardless of moral principles

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licentious

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carousal promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual manners

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reprobate

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carousal an unprincipled person

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ribald

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carousal referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way

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capricious

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changing quickly acting on a whim

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factitious

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copy artificially created or developed

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aspersion

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criticize/criticism

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calumny

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criticize/criticism to slander

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excoriate

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criticize/criticism criticize severly

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impugn

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criticize/criticism call into question

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inveigh

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criticize/criticism to speak or write about with hostility

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objurgate

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criticize/criticism rebuke, scold

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obloquy

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criticize/criticism public condemnation

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opprobrium

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criticize/criticism harsh criticism or censure

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remonstrate

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criticize/criticism to forcefully protest

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vituperate

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criticize/criticism to blame or insult with violent language

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defunct

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death/mourning no longer existing

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knell

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death/mourning a bell or announcement to signal the end

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macabre

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death/mourning disturbing due to relation with death or fear of death

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obsequies

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death/mourning funeral rites

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sepulchral

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death/mourning relating to a tomb

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wraith

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death/mourning a ghost or ghost-like image of someone

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abnegate

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denial of self to renounce or reject something

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despotic

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dictatorial tyrannical

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imperious

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dictatorial arrogant and domineering

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peremptory

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dictatorial insisting on immediate attention or obedience, esp. in a brusquely imperious way

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bemusing

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difficult to understand

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recondite

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difficult to understand little known; abstruse

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invidious

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disgusting/offensive unfairly discriminating; likely to arouse resentment in others

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rebarbative

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disgusting/offensive unattractive and objectionable

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cogent

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easy to understand the quality of being clear

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discrete

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eccentric/dissimilar different, separate

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abash

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embarrass make someone feel embarrassed

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chagrin

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embarrass distressed at having failed or been embarrassed

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compunction

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embarrass feeling of guilt after doing something write

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contrition

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embarrass remorse

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expiate

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embarrass/forgive make amends

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gaucherie

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embarrass awkward or unsophisticated ways

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canard

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falsehood unfounded rumor or story

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chicanery

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falsehood the use of deception to achieve one's purpose

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dissemble

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falsehood conceal or disguise one's true feelings

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guile

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falsehood sly or cunning intelligence

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perfidy

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falsehood state of being deceitful

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prevaricate

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falsehood speak or act in an evasive way

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specious

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falsehood

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spurious

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falsehood

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consanguine

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familial

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distaff

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familial of or relating to women

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endogamous

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familial the custom of marrying within the limits of a local community

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fratricide

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familial killing one's sibling

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scion

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familial decedent of a noble family