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Lesson 3 Flashcards

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Affable

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Friendly, courteous, amiable

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, recondite, concealed

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Audacity

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Excessive boldness, rashness, caring

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Contrite

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Extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant

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Credulous

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Believing on slight evidence, gullible

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Depravity

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Moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act

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Deprecate

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To disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval

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Didactic

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Instructive, designed to teach

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Dormant

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Inactive, sleeping

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling

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Erudite

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Scholarly

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Exotic

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Foreign, unfamiliar

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Fuse

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To mix or to join

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Immutable

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Unchanging

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Incorrigible

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Incapable of being reformed or improved

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Loathe

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To detest

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Mitigate

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To cause to become less harsh or hostile or to make less severe

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Nullify

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To cause not to be in effect or to negate

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Pretentious

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Making an extravagant outward show or self important

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Prologue

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Introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action

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Recant

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To withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke

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Servile

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Overly submissive

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Trepidation

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Fear, trembling, agitation

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Vilify

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To malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against

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Pacifistic

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Opposed to war or use of force

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