Hardest vocab Week Flashcards

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Inane

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Senseless; silly; empty

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Flagarant

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Openly, glaringly, wrong or scandalous

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Maudlin

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Made foolish by liquor; tearfully affectionate or sentimental

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Obsequious

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Over courteous and servile in manner

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Perfunctory

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Done mechanically and without interest; superficial and careless

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Presumptuous

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Unduly confident or bold; audacious; arrogant; taking too much for granted

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Sadistic

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Inclined to cruelty; getting pleasure out of hurting others

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Surreptitious

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By secret or stealthy means

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Abortive

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Coming to naught; failing

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Plebeian

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Common; coarse; vulgarly ordinary, mediocre, or common place

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Vitriolic

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Extremely biting or sarcastic, figuratively caustic or bitter

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Subversive

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Tending to overthrow from the very foundation as a normal or political force, aiming to destroy

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Desultory

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Passing irregularly from one thing to another; changeable; without method or plan

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Dogmatic

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Descriptive of an opinion stated in an over positive and arrogant matter

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Wanton

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Recklessly inconsiderate or heartless; unrestrained; extravagant

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Crass

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Stupid in a grossly inconsiderate way

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Intermittent

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Ceasing and starting again

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Sardonic

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Bitter, scornful, and sneering

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Macabre

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Pertaining to, indicative of, or suggesting death; gruesome; grim; ghastly; horrible