"L-" Vocabulary Flashcards

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Labile

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Readily open to change (adj)

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Lachrymose

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Causing tears, tearful, showing sorrow (adj)

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Laconic

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Using few words; terse (adj)

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Lassitude

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Weariness; tiredness (adj)

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Laud

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To praise highly (v)

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Lavish

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Extravagant (adj)

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Lethargic

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Characterized by sluggishness (adj)

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Libertine

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Someone unrestrained by morality or convention or leading a dissolute life (n)

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Limn

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To draw or outline in detail (v)

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Limpid

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Transparent, serene, clear and simple in lifestyle (adj)

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Lionize

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To treat something as an object of great interest or importance; to treat a person as a celebrity (v)

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List

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To tilt or lean to one side (v)

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Loquacious

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Extremely talkative (adj)

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Lucid

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Intelligible, sound, clear (adj)

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Lumber

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To move heavily and clumsily or with a rumbling sound (v)

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Luminous

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Characterized by brightness and the emission of light, enlightened, clear (adj)