January 5 Flashcards

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Clairvoyant

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To see clearly the future…

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Peruse

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Read very very carefully

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Confound

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Confused

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Absolve

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To set or declare someone free from blame.

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Assail

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To attack.
Synonym: Assault,

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Traverse

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Go across or through.

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Enigmatic

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Puzzling. Not understood.

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Catholic

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Broad and comprehensive.

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Aerie

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Elevated. Secluded dwelling.

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Hutch

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Place where animals live.

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Propagate

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To spread. To bread or start growing more of.

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Jejune

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Doll, boring, overly simplified.

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Invigorating

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Full of energy.

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Trenchant

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Sharp, forceful way of speaking.

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Slipshod

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Careless. No organisation to it.

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Flounder

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To flip flop and struggle.

Ex. Company X is floundering.

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Slipshod

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Careless. No organisation to it.

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Discrete

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To put into two separate categories.

Discreet - careful and circumspect in one’s speech or actions. (Careful, circumspect, cautious).

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Equivocal

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To be vague. Not to be clear.
Equivocal study. We do not know what the study says.

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Gauche
Goush

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Socially awkward

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Remiss

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To not be doing something that is your duty.

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Reproof

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Noun form of reprove (criticise)

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Reproach

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Reprove = reproach = criticise

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Remand

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Sending someone back who has done something wrong.

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Reprobate

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Someone who is unprincipled. Unethical person.

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Ramshackle

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Dilapidated

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Spendthrift

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Someone who wasts money.

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Aboveboard

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Honest. Totally open and transparent.

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Lackluster

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Lack shine and sparkle.

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Watershed

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Watershed moment=a critical turning point

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Gainsay

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To dispute something/deny something

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Impertinent

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Adj. Someone who is keeps bugging you about something.

Not showing proper respect. Rude.

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Reprove

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To criticise sharply.

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Ineluctable

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Unavoidable

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Numinous

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Spiritual. Deep transcendental spiritual experience.

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Vitiate

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To impart or negatively affect the quality if something.

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Exiguos

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Scant or Meger. Not many of something.

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Percipient

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Perspective, careful observer.

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Captious

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Of person … tending to finding fault with something or give petty objections.

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Diatribe

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A long and extended rant (a crazy person in the middle of the street screaming about Politics).

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Nugatory

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Worthless and unimportant.

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Untoward

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Inconvenience. Untoward occurrence.

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Senescent v sententious

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Senescent - old. Process of aging.

Sententious - someone who likes to speak in maxims in motorising or pompous way.

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Martinet

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Strict disciplinarian. Someone who is very strict.

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Desultory

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Lacking a focus or structure.

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Iniquity

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Evil.

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Impervious

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Something cannot be pass through.
I am impervious to pain.