Final Vocab Flashcards

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Apathy

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A lack of feeling, emotion, or interest

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Animosity

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Strong dislike, bitter hostility

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Apprehensive

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Fearful or anxious, especially about the future

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Commend

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To praise, express approval, to present as worthy of attention, to commit to the care of

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Compatible

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Able to get along or work well together, capable of use with some other model or system

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Condolence

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An expression of sympathy

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Consecrate

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To make sacred, hallow, to set apart for a special purpose

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Decrepit

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Old and feeble, worn out, ruined

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Deride

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To ridicule, laugh at with contempt

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Ingenuous

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Innocent, simple, frank, sincere

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Multifarious

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Having great variety, numerous and diverse

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Obsolete

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Out of date, no longer in use

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Omnivorous

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Eating every kind of food, eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety or tastes

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Parsimonious

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Stingy, miserly, meager, poor, small

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Quandary

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A state of perplexity or doubt

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority

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Reprisal

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An injury done in return for an injury

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Revel

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To take great pleasure in, a wild celebration

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Stultify

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To make ineffective or useless, cripple, to have a dulling effect on

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Suave

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Smoothly agreeable or polite, pleasing to the senses