Level 5 Flashcards

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Voluble

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Glib. Ready flow of words.

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Commiserate

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Sympathize with, express sorrow/sympathy

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3
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Lethargy

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Being drowsy, sleepy, apathetic, lazy

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Exonerate

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Freed from guilt, cleared

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5
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Pugnacious

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Inclined to quarrel, Belligerent

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Contrition

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Sincere penitence, remorse

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Abrogate

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Put an end to, abolish

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Officious

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objectionably aggressive in offering one’s unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome:

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Intractable

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Not easily managed

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Chrysalis

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A pupa, especially of a moth/butterfly, enclosed in a cocoon. A protected stage of development

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Subterfuge

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an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc. a stratagem employed to conceal something.

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12
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Ebullience

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Zestful enthusiasm

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13
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Remonstrate

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To plead in protest, to present/show reasons in complaint

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14
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Chimera

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(often initial capital letter) . a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail.

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15
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Incorrigible

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Bad beyond correction

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16
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Conversant

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Familiar by use or study

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Auspicious

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Favorable, promising success

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18
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Itinerant

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Journeying, traveling fro place to place

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19
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Promulgate

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To make known publicly

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20
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Droll

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Humorous in an odd way, jester

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21
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Colloquial

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Informal, characteristic of regular conversation

22
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Castigate

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To punish to correct

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Obfuscate

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To confuse, stupefy, to make inclear

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Convival

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Friendly, agreeable

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Philanthropic

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Giving, altruistic

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Eschew

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Shun, stay away from

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Idiosyncrasy

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A characteristic mannerism unique to a person

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Facile

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Easily done (sometimes with superficiality)

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Approbation

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Approval

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Prodigious

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Extraordinary in size

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Beguile

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To influence by flattery deceit

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Replete

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Filled with

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Preclude

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To exclude, prevent, make impossible

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Vindictive

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Vengeful

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Juxtapose

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To place side by side

36
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Insatiable

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Can’t be satisfied

37
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Efface

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To wipe out, expunge

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Vernacular

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Expressed in native tongue

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Jovial

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Joyous hearty spirit

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Esoteric

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Understood by select few

41
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Cull

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Pull, collect

42
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Nomenclature

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Set or System of Names in a field or community

43
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Gratuitous

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Being without cause

44
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Genteel

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Refined, elegant, pretentiously polite

45
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Impervious

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Impenetrable

47
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Accolade

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Any award or laudatory notice

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Dilemma

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Dilemma

48
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Judicious

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Having discriminating judgement

49
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Transitory

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Existing for short time, ephemeral

50
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Altruism

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Unselfish care for others