Kaplan 5 Flashcards by Lakshay Chauhan

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Provincial

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Limited in outlook, narrow in ideas

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Pretentious

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Showy, self important

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Quaint

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Pleasantly old fashioned, picturesque

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Quell

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To put an end to, to squelch, to calm

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Quintessential

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The most perfect example

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Quixotic

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Foolishly impractical

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Raucous

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Harsh sounding, noisy and disorderly

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Rebuff

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To snub, to refuse in a blunt or rude way

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Rebuke

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To criticize or reprimand sharply

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Reciprocal

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Mutual, shared, interchangeable

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Relegate

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Dismiss to a less prominent position

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Relic

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An object associated with saint, something they remains from the past

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Reprehensible

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Deserving blame

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Reprove

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To gently criticize

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Rescind

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To cancel, to repeal

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Resilient

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An ability to recover, to adjust easily

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Respite

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An interval if rest, a temporary delay

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Resplendent

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Brutally ant, gloriously bright

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Robust

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Strong and healthy, vigorous

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Rustic

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Primitive, rural, lacking city comforts

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Saccharine

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Excessively sweet

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Sardonic

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Disdainful, scornfully mocking

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Scanty

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Hardly sufficient

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Scintillate

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To sparkle, to gleam,

Servile

Submissive, behaving like a slave

Sloth

Sluggish, indolence , laziness

Spurious

False, fake not genuine

Steadfast

Loyal, faithful

Stoic

Showing indifference to pain, apathetic

Stratagem

A trick or deceptive scheme

Strident

Loud, harsh

Stymie

To get in the way, to block, to hinder

Succinct

Concise, clearly expressed in a few words

Surfeit

Abundance, excessive

Surmise

Abundance, excessive amount

Table

To remove from consideration

Tedious

Boring, tiresome

Teem

To swarm, to be inundated, to become full of overflowing

Temperance

Habitual moderation, the avoidance of excess

Tenet

A principle, doctrine or belief held as do by a group

Tenuous

Flimsy

Tepid

Lukewarm, unenthusiastic, halfhearted

Terse

Concise, brief,

Theology

Study of god or religion

Thwart

To block, hinder