HW#6 Problem Words Flashcards

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Cathartic

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Providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions

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Emollient

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Having the quality of softening or smoothing skin;

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Incapacitated

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Disable; debilitate

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Inconsequential

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Not important or significant

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Virulent

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Poisonous; toxic; vitriolic; malicious

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Deleterious

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Causing harm or damage

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Bemoan

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Lament; bewail; mourn

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Aggrandize

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Increase the power, status or wealth of

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Nadir

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Rock-bottom

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Medley

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Assortment; miscellany

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Untoward

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Unexpected; inappropriate; inconvenient

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Halcyon

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Happy; blissful

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Seemly

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Proper; descent

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Impolitic

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Imprudent; unwise

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Genteel

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Refined; polite

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Verve

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Vigor; speech; enthusiasm

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Torpor

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Inactivity; lethargy

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Torrid

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Very hot and dry

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Insipid

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Lacking flavor; in imaginative

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Piquant

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Spicy; tangy

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Lionize

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Treat as a celebrity

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Espousal

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An act of adopting or supporting a cause, belief, or way of life

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Repression

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Restraint; subduing

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Vicarious

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Indirect; surrogate; derivative; secondary

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Unwitting

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Unknowing; unconscious

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Miscreant

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Criminal

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Polemicist

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Engaged in debate

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Ironclad

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Impossible to weaken; contradict or change

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Surreptitious

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Secretive