Last One Flashcards

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or drowsiness

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Sophistic

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Seemingly valid but actually invalid

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Staid

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Serious and sedate, esp. in a boring and old-fashioned way. Sedate, respectable, and unadventurous.

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Stalwart

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Loyal and dependable; strong and sturdy

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5
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Surfeit

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An excessive amount

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Tawdry

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Showy but low quality

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Tendentious

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Favoring a particular point of view, esp. a controversial one; biased

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Timorous

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Fearful

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Titular

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Having a title but no real power or responsibilities

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Torpor

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A state of mental and physical inactivity

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Tractable

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Easy to manage, control, or deal with

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Trappings

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The visible signs of something

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Truculent

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Quickly angered and eager to argue

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Umbrage

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Offense, a feeling of annoyance

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Upbraid

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Criticize severely, to scold

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Vapid

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Boring because showing no intelligence or imagination

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Venal

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Willing to behave dishonestly for money, corrupt

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Verve

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Energy and enthusiasm

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Vitiate

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To make defective and ineffective

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Vituperation

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Angry and abusive criticism

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Yoke

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Joining together

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Reductive

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Overly simplofied

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Discerning

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Showing good judgement

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Bemused

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Deft
Neatly skillful and quick in one's movements.
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Hidebound
narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible
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Equanimity
mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation.
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Puerile
childishly silly and trivial
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Unseemly
Not proper or appropriate
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Underhanded
Secretive
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Feebly
Lack strength
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Notwithstanding
Despite, in spite of
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Surreptitious
Secret
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Outmoded
No longer in use (synonym: obsolete)
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Buck
Oppose or resist
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Punctuated
Scatter among things (interspersed)
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Frivolous
Not serious (unimportant)
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Attentuation
Reduction of force
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Profusion
Abundance
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Partial
Prefer
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Ornate
Elaborate or decorated or adorned
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Consequential
Important (e,g, significant)
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Bridle
Restraint