Group 25 & 26 Flashcards

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Bereft

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Deprive of or lacking, sad and lonely

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Pomposity

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Showing that you think you are better than other people

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Delineate

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Describe or portray precisely, indicate the exact

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4
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Vitality

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The state of being active and strong, energy

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Steadfast

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Resolutely and dutifully firm and unwavering, loyal

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Archetype

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A very typical example of a person or thing

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Relent

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Mitigate

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Grievance

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Unfair treatment

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Harangue

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A lengthy and aggressive speech

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Yield

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Produce or provide, surrender

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Rhetoric

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The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

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Conspire

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Make secrets plan jointly

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Sparse

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A small in amount or quantity

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Whimsical

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Playfully fanciful, acting in capricious manner

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Adverse

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Preventing success, harmful

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Exhort

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Strongly encourage or urge

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Poise

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A calm, confident way of behaving

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Adept

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Very skilled at something

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20
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Tedious

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Too long, slow and dull

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21
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Rigor

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A sudden feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by rise in temperature

22
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Articulate

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1) Good at expressing your ideas clearly
2) Express your ideas or feelings

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Captious

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Tending to find fault or raise petty objections

24
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Lugubrious

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Looking or sending sad and dismal

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Transcend
Go beyond the range, surpass
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Flustered
Make someone agitated or confused
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Incidental
Happening by chance
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Axiomatic
Self evident or unquestionable
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Macabre
Disturbing since concerning with or causing fear of death
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Gullible
Easily persuaded to believe something, credulous
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Ingrained
Firmly fixed or established, difficult to change
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Tacit
Implicit
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Exorbitant
Unreasonably high
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Serene
Calm, peaceful and untroubled
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Treatise
A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject
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Corporeal
Relating to person's body especially as opposed to their spirit, (law) consisting of material objects
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Figurative
Metaphorical
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Morose
Bad tempered and not saying much to other people
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Fickle
Capricious
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Ramification
An unwelcome or complex consequences of an action
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Eclectic
Deriving ideas, style or taste from broad and diverse range of sources
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Apprehensive
Fear or anxiety that something bad will happen
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Idiosyncratic
Peculiar or individual
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Insolent
Showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect
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Ardent
Very enthusiastic or passionate
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Doctrinaire
Dogmatic
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Officious
Intrusively enthusiastic in offering help or advice
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Equanimity
Calmness and composure, especially in difficult situation
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Supplant
Supersede and replace
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Lampoon
Publicly criticizing someone using ridicule, irony or sarcasm