Group 5 & 6 Flashcards

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Aloof

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Not friendly, distant, detached

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Clangor

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A continuous loud banging or ringing sound

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Debunk

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Expose the falseness or hollowness of an idea or belief

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4
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Diminutive

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Extremely or unusually small

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5
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Discernible

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Able to be discerned, perceptible, visible

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6
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Estranged

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Not longer close to someone, alienated

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7
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Extravagant

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Excessive, elaborate

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8
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Fanciful

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Over imaginative, unrealistic, highly ornamental

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Frivolous

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Carefree, Not having serious purpose

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10
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Heterogeneous

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Diverse in character or content

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11
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Imperious

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Arrogant and domineering

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Impertinent

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Not showing proper respect, Irreverent

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Invasive

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Tending to spread quickly or undesirably, harmfully

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Irresolute

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Showing or feeling hesitancy, uncertain

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15
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Laudable

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Deserving praise and commendation

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16
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Lax

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Not sufficiently strict or careful, negligible

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17
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Marginalize

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Treat a person or group as insignificant or peripheral

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18
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Panache

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Flamboyantly confident in style or manner

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19
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Plodding

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Slow moving and unexciting

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20
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Prosaic

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Old fashioned, unromantic, commonplace

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21
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Restive

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Unable to remain silent, still or submissive, especially because of boredom

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22
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Sporadic

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Infrequent, scattered and isolated, occasional

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Stigmatize

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Great disapproval

24
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Undermine

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lessen the effectiveness

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Utterly
Absolutely
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Weary
Tired
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Zealous
Showing zeal, fervent
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Admonish
Warn or reprimand someone firmly
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Aesthetic
Concerned with beauty
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Affectation
Pretension, facade
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Alleviate
Make suffering less severe
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Analogous
Comparable in certain respects
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Bolster
Support or strength
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Chauvinistic
Displaying excessive support to their own cause, group or sex
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Connoisseur
Expert judge in matters of taste
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Dissemble
Conceal or disguise one's true feelings or beliefs
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Dogged
Showing tenacity and grim persistance
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Dupe
Trick, victim of deception
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Empirical
Based on observation rather than theory
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Engender
Cause or give rise to a feeling, situation or condition
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Entitled
Give someone legal right
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Pertinacious
Holding firmly to an opinion or course of action
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Presumptuous
Confident that something will happen or that somebody will do something not making sure in way that annoys people
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Probity
Having strong moral principles, honest and decency
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Proliferate
Increase rapidly in numbers, multiply
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Specious
Superficially plausible but actually wrong
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Spurious
Not being what it purports to be, false or fake
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Subjective
Influenced by personal feelings, taste or opinions
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Subvert
Undermine the authority or power of the system
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Timorous
Lack of confidence, easily frightened
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Tortuous
Full of twists and turns, excessively complicated
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Tractable
Easy to influence, control or deal with
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Transient
Lasting for very short time
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Ubiquitous
Omnipresent
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Underscore
Emphasize
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Venal
Bribe, corrupt
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Venerate
Regard with great respect, reverence