Kaplan Words Flashcards
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Equivocate
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To use ambiguous language to conceal truth or avoid committing one’s self
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Vacillate
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To waver between opinions; indecisive
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Engender
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Cause or give rise to
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Ephemeral
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Lasting a short period of time
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Laconic
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Using few words
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Belies
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To contradict
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Raillery
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Good natured mockery
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Myopic
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Short sighted
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Vacous
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Empty or vain
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Def: To use ambiguous language to conceal truth or avoid committing one’s self
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Equivocate
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Def: To waver between opinions; Indecisive
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Vacillate
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Def: Cause or give rise to
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Engender
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Def: lasting a short period of time
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Ephemeral
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Def: Using few words
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Laconic
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Def: To contradict
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Belies
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Def: Good natured mockery
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Raillery
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Def: Short sighted
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Myopic
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Def: Empty or vain
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Vacous
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Prescient
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Far sighted
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Nascent
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Newly born
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Jejurely
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Childishly
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Paen
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Homeage (praise)
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Ignoming
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To disgrace
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Ribald
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Vulgar
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Captious
Easily displeased
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Incipient
At an early age
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Impecunious
Impoverished
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Dissembling
To speak or act hypocritically
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Def: Far sighted
Prescient
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Def: Newly born
Nascent
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Def: Childishly
Jejurely
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Def: Homeage (praise)
Paen
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Def: To disgrace
Ignoming
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Def: Vulgar
Ribald
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Def: Easily Displeased
Captious
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Def: At an early age
Incipient
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Def: Impoverished
Impecunious
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Def: To speak or act hypocritically
Dissembling
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Lascivious
Vulgar
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Indigent
Impoverished
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Hoary
Grey or white with age
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Cogent
Convincing and well reasoned
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Credulous
Too trusting; Gullible
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Decorum
Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
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Deference
Respect; Courtesy
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Desultory
Jumping from one thing to another
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Diatribe
An abusive, condemnatory speech
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Diffident
Lacking self confidence
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Def: Vulgar
Lascivious
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Def: Impoverished
Indifent
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Def: Grey or white with old age
Hoary
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Def: Convincing and well reasoned
Cogent
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Def: Too trusting; Gullible
Credulous
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Def: Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
Decorum
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Def: Respect; Courtesy
Deference
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Def: Jumping from one thing to another
Desultory
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Def: An abusive, condemnatory speech
Diatribe
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Def: Lacking self-confidence
Diffident
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Dirge
Funeral hymn or mournful speech
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Disabuse
To set right; Free from error
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Dissemble
To present a false appearance
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Enervate
To reduce in strength
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Estimable
Admirable
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Exigent
Urgent
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Foment
To arouse or incite
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Inchoate
Disorganized; Not fully formed
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Insipid
Lacking interest
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Inundate
To overwhelm; Cover with water
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Irascible
Easily angered
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Def: Funeral hymn or mournful speech
Dirge
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Def: To set right; Free from error
Disabuse
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Def: To present a false appearance
Dissmble
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Def: To reduce in strength
Enervate
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Def: Admirable
Estimable
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Def: Urgent
Exigent
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Def: To arouse or incite
Foment
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Def: Disorganized; Not fully formed
Inchoate
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Def: Lacking interest
Insipid
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Def: To overwhelm; cover with water
Inundate
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Def: Easily angered
Irascible
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Malinger
To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
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Obdurate
Hardened in feeling; Resistant to persuasion
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Obsequious
Overly submissive and eager to please
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Perfidious
Willing to betray one's trust
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Perfunctory
Done in a routine way; Indifferent
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Precipitate
to throw violently or bring about abruptly
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Prevaricate
To lie or deviate from the truth
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Propitiate
To concilate; Appease
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Quiescent
Motionless
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Repudiate
Reject the validity of
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Reticent
Silent; Reserved
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Sublime
Lofty or grand
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Tacit
Done without words
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Taciturn
Silent; Not talkative
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Def: Silent; Not talkative
Taciturn
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Def: Done without words
Tacit
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Def: Lofty or grand
Sublime
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Def: Silent; Reserved
Reticent
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Def: Reject the validity of
Repudiate
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Def: motionless
Quiescent
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Def: To concilate; Appease
Propitiate
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Def: To lie or deviate from the truth
Prevaricate
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Def: To throw violently or bring about abruptly
Precipitate
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Def: Done in a routine way; Indifferent
Perfunctory
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Def: Willing to betray one's trust
Perfidious
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Def: Overly submissive and eager to please
Obsequious
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Def: Hardened in feeling; Resistant to persuasion
Obdurate
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Def: To evade personal responsibility by pretending to be ill
Malinger
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Artless
Open or honest
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Def: open or honest
Artless
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Prosaic
Uncreative, uninteresting, bland
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Vapid
Uncreative, uninteresting, bland
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Prohibitive
Unaffordable
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Def: unaffordable
Prohibitive
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Inexorable
Relentless; inescapable
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Def: relentless; inescapable
Inexorable
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Machination
Intrigue
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Sanguine
Reddish or confident, optimistic
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Def: Optimistic or confident
Sanguine
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Coruscate
Gleam or radiate
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Piquant
Provocative, striking
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Def: provocative, striking
Piquant
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Recreant
Cowardly, unfaithful
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Def: cowardly, unfaithful
Recreant
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Fastidiously
Meticulously
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Dilatorily
Causing delay
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Cache
To store away
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Def: to store away
Cache
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Def: causing delay
Dilatorilt
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Def: meticulously, very carefully
Fadtidiously
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Audacious
Bold, daring
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Obstreperous
Boisterous and defiant, as a personality trait
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Cogitation
Thoughtful consideration
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Def: thoughtful consideration
Cogitation
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Def: bold and daring
Audacious
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Def: boisterous and defiant, as personality trait
Obstreperous
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Implacable
Vengeful
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Reprisal
Vengeance
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Def: vengeance
Repris
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Def: vengeful
Implacable
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Saccharine
Sweet
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Punctilious
Finicky
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Fidelity
Accuracy in details
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Deft
Skillful, dexterous
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Attrition
A diminishing or loss
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Diminution
A decrease
