Group 15 & 16 Flashcards

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Alienate

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Makes someone isolated or estranged

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Apathy

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Lack of interest, concern or enthusiasm

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Apropos

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With reference to

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Apt

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Suitable in circumstances

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Cloak

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Something serve to hide or disguise something

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Consensus

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A general agreement

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Divergent

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Tending to be different or develop in different directions

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Elated

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Make someone feel ecstatically happy

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9
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Enchant

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Fill someone with great delight

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10
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Entrenched

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Firmly established and difficult or unable to change, ingrained

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11
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Exotic

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Characteristic of distant foreign country

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12
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Forseeable

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Able to foreseen or predict

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13
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Forsake

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Abandon, renounce

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14
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Gratify

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Give someone pleasure or satisfaction

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15
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Heed

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Pay attention to or take notice of

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Judicious

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Showing, having or done with great judgement

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Lucid

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Clearly expressed, easy to understand

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Pertinent

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Relevant to a particular matter

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Propriety

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Conformity to conventionally accepted standards of behavior

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Scintillation

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Shinning brightly, brilliantly clever

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Sensational

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Causing great public interest or excitement

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Sophisticated

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Having, revealing or involving a great deal of worldly experience or knowledge in fashion or culture, advanced and complicated

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Strife

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Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues

24
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Understated

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Express or present in a subtle and effective way

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Unscrupulous
Having or showing no moral principles, not honest or fair
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Veracity
Conformity to the facts
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Virulent
Extremely severe or harmful in its effects, bitterly hostile
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Antedate
Precede in time
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Banish
Send someone away from the country as an official punishment, get rid of
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Bridle
Used to control movement
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Comply
Act in accordance with a wish or command
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Crestfallen
Sad and disappointed
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Elucidate
Make something clear, explain
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Evade
Escape or avoid something especially by trickery
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Feckless
Lacking initiative or strength of character, irresponsible
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Fester
(of wound)become septic, (of person)become worse
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Iconclastic
Criticize cherished institutions or beliefs
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Immure
Confined or enclosed against their will
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Inhibit
Prevent
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Inscrutable
Impossible to understand or interpret
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Lionize
Give a lot of public attention and approval to somone
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Monotonous
Dull, tedious, lacking in variety
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Peculiar
Strange and special
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Premeditate
Think out or plan beforehand
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Profligate
Wasteful in use of resources
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Recondite
little known, abstruse
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Relinquish
Voluntarily cease to keep or claim, give up
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Ruminate
Think about something deeply
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Skittish
(of animal) easily scared of, (of person) unpredictable
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Synoptic
of or forming general summary
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Superfluous
Surplus
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Vociferous
Expressed by vehement opinions, loud and forceful, outspoken