Key Terms 1 Flashcards
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exigent
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urgent, pressing; requiring immediate attention
2
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fulminate
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to loudly attack or denounce
3
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ingenuous
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artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
4
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inured
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accustomed to accepting something undesirable
5
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obviate
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to anticipate and make unnecessary
6
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perfidy
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intentional breach of faith; treachery (adj form perfidioius)
7
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perspicacious
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acutely perceptive
8
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prattle
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to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
9
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precipitate
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acting with excessive haste or impulse
10
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predilection
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a disposition in favor of something
11
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prevaricate
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to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
12
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solicitous
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concerned and attentive; eager
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truculent
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fierce and cruel; eager to fight
14
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virulent
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extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
