GregMat 25 Flashcards

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Adept

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Highly skilled or proficient at something

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Adverse

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Preventing success or development

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Appropriate

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To take something for one’s own use

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Archetype

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A very typical example of something

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5
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Articulate

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Able to express oneself clearly and effectively

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Auspicious

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Conducive to success; favorable

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Bereft

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Deprived of or lacking something

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Captious

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Tending to find fault or raise petty objections

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Conclusive

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Serving to settle an issue; decisive

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Conspire

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To plan together secretly to commit an illegal act

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Delineate

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To describe or portray something precisely

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12
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Disentangle

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To free something from entanglement

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13
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Exhort

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To strongly encourage or urge someone to do something

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14
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Frailty

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The condition of being weak or delicate

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Grievance

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A real or imagined wrong causing complaint or protest

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Harangue

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A lengthy and aggressive speech

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Ploy

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A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one’s advantage

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Poise

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Graceful and elegant bearing

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Pomposity

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Self-importance and arrogance

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Proxy

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The authority to act for someone else

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Relent

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To become less severe or intense

22
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Rhetoric

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The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

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Rigor

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Strictness or severity

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Sparse

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Thinly dispersed or scattered

25
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Steadfast

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Firmly fixed in place or unwavering

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Suspect

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To doubt the truth or genuineness of something

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Tedious

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Too long, slow, or dull

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Vitality

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The state of being strong and active

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Whimsical

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Playfully quaint or fanciful

30
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Yield

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To produce or provide something