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Intermediate Flashcards

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Histrionic

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Overly dramatic

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Artifice

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Trickery

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Truculence

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Tendency to fight

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Malinger

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Avoid work

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Solicitous

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Anxious to please

*prostitute solicits a customer

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Capitulate

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Surrender

  • the captain capitulated after his ship was surrounded by pirates
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Epigram

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Witty saying

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Adjudicate

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Judge

*The judge quickly adjudicated the defendant as guilty so she could go to lunch

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Jingoist

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Overly patriotic

*the jingoist’s were very jingoistic towards their home country, Jingoistia

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Celerity

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Quickness

*the rabbit had to eat his celery with celerity so he wouldn’t be eaten himself

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Tempestuous

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Intensely emotional

*she became tempestuous while watching the notebook; her tears were like a tempest

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Precipitate

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Hasty

*our precipitate formed precipitously in chemistry lab so we failed the class

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Solicitude

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Feeling of concern

  • I expressed my solicitude when she began soliciting men for drug money
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Apothegm

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Short saying

*an apothegm was made about making apotheosis of celebrities: you should never meet your heroes

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Machinate

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Scheme

*the machinist kept machinating how to get out of his nightmare

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Noisome

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Foul smelling

*the rotten eggs were very noisome to niles’ nose

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Puissant

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Powerful

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Unpropitious

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Unlikely to succeed

*he had the unpropitious task of scaling Mt. Unpropitious

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Surreptitious

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Stealthy

  • Sarah surreptitiously stole the syrup from the counter top so no one else could enjoy their pancakes
20
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Inure

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Harden

*the manure inured overnight during the snowstorm until it was rock hard the next day

21
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Lachrymose

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Weepy

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