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Group 25 & 26 Flashcards

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1
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Bereft

A

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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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

A

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

A

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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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

A

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

23
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Captious

A

Tending to find fault or raise petty objections

24
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Lugubrious

A

Looking or sending sad and dismal

25
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Transcend

A

Go beyond the range, surpass

26
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Flustered

A

Make someone agitated or confused

27
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Incidental

A

Happening by chance

28
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Axiomatic

A

Self evident or unquestionable

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Macabre

A

Disturbing since concerning with or causing fear of death

30
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Gullible

A

Easily persuaded to believe something, credulous

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Ingrained

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Firmly fixed or established, difficult to change

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Tacit

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Implicit

33
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Exorbitant

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Unreasonably high

34
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Serene

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Calm, peaceful and untroubled

35
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Treatise

A

A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject

36
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Corporeal

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Relating to person’s body especially as opposed to their spirit, (law) consisting of material objects

37
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Figurative

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Metaphorical

38
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Morose

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Bad tempered and not saying much to other people

39
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Fickle

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Capricious

40
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Ramification

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An unwelcome or complex consequences of an action

41
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Eclectic

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Deriving ideas, style or taste from broad and diverse range of sources

42
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Apprehensive

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Fear or anxiety that something bad will happen

43
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Idiosyncratic

A

Peculiar or individual

43
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Insolent

A

Showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect

44
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Ardent

A

Very enthusiastic or passionate

45
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Doctrinaire

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Dogmatic

46
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Officious

A

Intrusively enthusiastic in offering help or advice

47
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Equanimity

A

Calmness and composure, especially in difficult situation

48
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Supplant

A

Supersede and replace

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Lampoon

A

Publicly criticizing someone using ridicule, irony or sarcasm

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