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Group 11 & 12 Flashcards

1
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Abhor

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Regard with disgust and hatred

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2
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Boisterous

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Noisy, energetic and cheerful

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Chivalrous

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Gallant and courteous especially towards woman

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Churlish

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Rude in mean spirited and surly way

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Complacent

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Showing uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one’s achievement

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Cumbersome

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Heavy or large and therefore, difficult to carry or use, slow and complicated

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Debilitating

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Make someone weak and infirm

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Droll

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Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement

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Eccentric

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Unconventional and slightly strange

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Fractious

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Irritable and quarrelsome, difficult to control

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11
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Limpid

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Completely clear and transparent, melodious or accessible

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Mawkish

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Sentimental in exaggerated or false way

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13
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Obeisance

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Deferential respect

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14
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Ostentatious

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Design to impress

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15
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Panacea

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A remedy or solution to all difficulties or diseases

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Perfunctory

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Carried out without real interest, desultory

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17
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Perilous

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Full of danger or risk

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18
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Pervasive

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Spread widely throughout an area or group of people

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19
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Preclude

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Prevent from happening, make impossible

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Predilection

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A preference or special liking for something

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21
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Rapacious

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Aggressively greedy

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Relish

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Great enjoyment

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23
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Satire

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Use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity

24
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Sham

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A person who pretends to be something or someone they are not

25
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Sluggish

A

Slow moving, lacking alertness or energy

26
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Spartan

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Austerity or lack of comfort or luxury

27
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Truculent

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Eager to argue, aggressively defiant

28
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Clandestine

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Kept secret or done secretively

29
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Acrimonious

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Angry and bitter

30
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Belligerent

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hostile and aggressive

31
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Beneficient

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Generous and doing good

32
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Canny

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Showing or having shrewdness or good judgements especially in matter of money or business

33
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Cavalier

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Lack of concern

34
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Distressed

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Suffering from extreme anxiety, sorrow or pain

35
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Dwindling

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Gradually diminishing in size, strength or amount

36
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Eclipse

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Deprive something of power or significance

37
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Exacerbate

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Make problems worse

38
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Exasperated

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Intensely frustrated or irritated

39
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Fungible

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Mutually interchangeable

40
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Hackneyed

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Having been overused, unoriginal and trite

41
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Incongrous

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Not in harmony or keeping with surroundings

42
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Laconic

A

Using very few words

43
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Lucrative

A

Providing a great deal or profit

44
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Magisterial

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Domineering, dictorial

45
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Onerous

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Involving great deal of efforts, trouble or burdensome

46
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Opprobrium

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Harsh criticism or censure

47
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Parcimonious

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Very unwilling to spend money or use resources

48
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Provocative

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Causing anger or any other strong reaction, especially deliberately, annoying

49
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Renounce

A

Formally declare one’s abandonment

50
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Tempestuous

A

Characterized by strong or conflicting emotions

51
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Tenable

A

Defensible

52
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Transgression

A

Act that goes against the law

53
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Urbane

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Courteous and refined in manner

54
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Verisimilitude

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The appearance of being true or real

55
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Vitiate

A

Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of something

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