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Seldom

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Rarely; rare

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Recondite

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  1. Smth difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend
  2. Of , relating to, or dealing with smth little known or obscure
  3. Hidden from sight
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Fecklessness

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  1. Weak, ineffective (someone). A bit useless
  2. Worthless, irresponsible
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Acquisitiveness

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Desire to acquire and possess wealth

Greedy, avaricious

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Impecunious

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Having little to no money

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Abstruse

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Difficult to comprehend
Recondite

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Hortatory

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Trying to strongly encourage or persuade

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Trifling

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Lacking significance

Frivolous, trivial

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Extant

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Still existing

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Insipid

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  1. Lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge
  2. Lacking taste or savor
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Serendipitous

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Occurring or discoverred by chance in a happy or beneficial way

Fortuitous

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Prescience

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Foreknowledge of events

Prescient=foresight

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Blemish

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Spoiled by a flaw

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Kindred

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Of the same origin, group, family

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Iconoclasm

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The action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs, institutions, or values

Destruction of religious images as heretical

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Scanty

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Less than sufficient in quantity, extent or degree

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Long winded

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Tediously long in speaking or writing

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Panacea

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Cure all

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Cursory

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Rapidly and superficially performed or produced
Hasty
Baclé

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Perfunctory

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Routine based and superficial, almost mechanical and automatic

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Shrewd

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Marked by clever awareness and hardheaded

Has acumen

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Canny

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Clever, shrewd

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Swindle

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  1. Use deception to deprive someone of their possessions
  2. A fraudulent scheme or action (escroquerie)
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Contrastive

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Showing the difference between two thing (adj)

The contrastive analysis of english and french poetry

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Deluge
Déluge
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Sidereal
Of or with respect to distant stars
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Probity
The quality of having strong moral principled
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Prepisteris
Absurd, stupid
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Presumptuous
Failing to observe the limits of what is appropriateor permitted
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Slanderous
(Of a spoken statement) false and malicious Diffamatoire
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Obtuse to
Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand
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Quixotic
Extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical. Foolishly impractical in the pursuit of ideas From Don Quixote
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Roundly
1. In a vehement or emphatic manner 2. So as to form a circular or roughly circular shape
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Dumbfounded
Amazed, caught off guard
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Coda
The concluding passage of a piece or movement 2. Co cluding section of a dance 3. Concluding event, remarks
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Maudlin
Foolishly sad, like when you are sad drunk
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Inured to
To be accustomed to smth, esp smth unpleasant
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Paean
A song of praise or triumph
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Fledgling
Beginner (adj)
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Philippic
A bitter attack or denunciation
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Loathsome
Causing hatred or disgust, repulsive
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Lissom
(Of a person or their body) thin, supple and graceful
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Hale
(Of an old person) strong and healthy
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Dearth
Scarcity that makes dear
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Punctilious
Pointilleux Showing grrat attention to detail or correct behaviour
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Priggish
Self righteously moralistic or superior
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Bootless
(Of a task of undertaking) ineffectual, useless
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Feckless
Lacking initiative or stength of character; irresponsible
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Tantamount to
Equivalent in seriousness; virtually the same as
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Puckish
Playful, especially in a mischievous way
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Prurient
Having or encouraging an excessive interedt in sexual matters, especially in the sexual activity of others
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Wry
Using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humour 2. (Of someones facual expression) showing disgust, annoyance or disappointment
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Quagmire
1. Bourbier 2. A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot
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Pundits
Experts
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Pontificate
1. Express one's opinion in a pompous and dogmatic way 2. Officiate as bishop 3. The pzriod of office of a pope or bishop
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Palliative
Something that relieves pain without dealing with the cause of the condition
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Defange
Make something harmless oe ineffectual
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Portentous
Of momentous significance
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Standoffish
Distant and cold in manner, unfriendly
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Blithe
Shpwi.g a casual and cheerful indofference considered callous or imroper
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Uncongenial
Not friendly or unpleasant to be with
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Microcosms
Communities, places,or situations regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristics of smth much larger
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Ostentation
The pretentious or showing display of wealth and luxury, designed
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Innocuously
Not in a harmful or offensive way
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Snootily
Showing disapproval or contempt towards pthers, especially those considered to belong to a lower social class
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Inimical
Tending to harm or obstruct
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Zealots
Dogmaticalmy ideological
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Peeve
Annoy or irritate
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Irk
Irritate, annoy
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Squalid
(Of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poberty or neglect
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Sullied
Damage the purity or integrity of
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Foil
Prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding
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Scotch
Decisively put an end to
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Pastiche
An artistic work in a stule that imitates that of another work, artist, or period

Gre Vocab A (23 decks)

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