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Group 13 Flashcards

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Affinity

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A natural liking for something/resemblance

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Altruistic

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Selfless

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Baroque

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highly ornate and extravagant in style

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Byzantine

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Excessively complicated, characterized by deviousness

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Conciliatory

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Intended or likely to placate or pacify

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Countenance

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Facial expression, support or approval

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Covert

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Not openly acknowledged or displayed/secretive, clandestine

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Credible

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Able to be believed, trustworthy

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Diffuse

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Spread out/lacking clarity or conciseness, verbose

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Documentary

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Based on official documents or aspects, comprehensive

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Exhaustive

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Including all elements or aspects, comprehensive

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Exhilarating

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Thrilling, making one feel very happy, animated

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject

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Fervor

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Intense and passionate feeling

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Futile

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Fruitless, pointless

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Illusory

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Based on illusion

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Invidious

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Unpleasant, illusion

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Lethargic

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sluggish, lazy

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Metaphorical

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Figurative

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Mimic

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Imitate

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Numinous

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Having strong religious or spiritual quality

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Obscure

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Not discovered or known about/abstruse

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Overt

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Done or shown openly

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Pellucid

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Clear, easily understood

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Perpetuate

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Make(something)continue indefinitely

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Rational

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Based on or in accordance with reason or logic

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Scathing

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Scornful/harm

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Subtle

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Delicately complex/making use of clever and indirect methods to achieve something

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Superficial

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Appearing to be true but not/cursory/not through

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