Hit parade Flashcards by Kaitlyn Rabinovitz | Brainscape

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Pragmatic

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Practical, down to earth.

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Tenacious

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Tough, hard to defeat

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Disparage

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To belittle, to say something bad about

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Esoteric

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Hard to understand

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Contrite

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Deeply apologetic

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Objective

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Without bias

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Reticent

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Restrained

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Mitigate

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To lessen the severity of something

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Enigma

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Mystery

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Volatile

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Quick to evaporate

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Deference

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Submission to another’s will, respect

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Discernment

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Insight

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Conciliatory

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Making peace

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Virulent

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Extremely poisonous, malignant

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Complacent

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Smug, self satisfied

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Laudable

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Worthy of praise

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Depravity

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Moral corruption

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Banal

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Unoriginal

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Euphony

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Opposite of cacophony

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Austere

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Unadorned, sternum

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Vacillate

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To be indecisive

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Ascetic

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Hermit like, practicing self denial

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Volition

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Conscious choice

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Didactic

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Instructive

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Ephemeral

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Short lived

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Prosaic

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Dull and unimaginitive

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Fastidious

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Meticulous

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Languish

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To become weak or depressed

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Censure

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To condemn

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Engender

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To create

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Relegate

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To banish

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Fallacious

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False

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Efface

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To erase or rub away features

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Taciturn

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Quiet

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Ameliorate

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To make better

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Acquiesce

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To give in or agree

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Atrophy

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To waste away from lack of use

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Coalesce

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To fuse

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Levity

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Lightness or frivolity

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Sycophant

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Suck up

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Caustic

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Like acid- corrosive

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Incongruous

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Not harmonious

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Scrupulous

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Strict or careful

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Respite

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A rest or period of relief

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Hedonistic

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Indulgent

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Apocryphal

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Doubtful of origin, false

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Capricious

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Whimsical, fickle

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Hackneyed

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Banal, overused

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Bastion

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Stronghold or fortress

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Trepidation

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Fear, aprehension

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Torpor

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Sluggishness

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Pedestrian

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Common or ordinary

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Paucity

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Scarcity

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Ambulatory

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Able to walk

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Parsimony

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Stinginess

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Propriety

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Good manners

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Blithe

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Carefree

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Irascible

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Irritable

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Saccharine

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Sweet