Level 6 Flashcards by Mike A | Brainscape

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Legerdemain

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Slight of hand

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Puerile

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Childish

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Complicity

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Complicit

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Transmute

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Transform

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Abstruse

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Not clear

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Supercilious

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Acting with Superiority over someone else

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Dissemble

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Conceal or pretend something

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Vacuous

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Empty space

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Capacious

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Capable of containing a great deal. Ex: Museums capacious rooms.

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Mneumonic

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Thinking help

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Sonorous

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Deep full sound

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Admonish

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Kindly rebuke

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Paradigm

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A theoretical framework

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Circuitous

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Roundabout way

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Vindicate

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Justify

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Bucolic

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Rustic

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Ostracize

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Kick out of native country, cut off

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Plethora

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Plenty

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Proclivity

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Likeliness

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Commensurate

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Equal in size. Ex: Lived a life commensurate with his larger than life reputation.

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Incessant

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Ceaseless

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Sycophant

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Butt-kisser

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Tangential

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Tangent, attached to at a point

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Tenable

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Holdable

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Impalpable

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Not easily discerned by the mind

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Odious

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Much hated

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Ubiquitous

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It’s Everywhere!

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Ruminate

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Think on your sins (skyfall), literally chew on

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Remuneration

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Pay

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Peccadillo

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Small sin

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Supine

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Laying on back (opposite of prone)

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Banal

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Hackneyed, overdone and boring

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Heterodox

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Unorthodox

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Grandiloquent

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Grandiose talking/speech

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Lugubrious

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Mournful, Dismal, morose

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Infinitesimal

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Very small

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Goad

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Sharp stick to push cattle

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Malinger

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To pretend illness (to escape work)

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Aver

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Claimed with certainty. Average ave averred he wasn’t average.

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Cacophony

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Muddled harsh noise

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Refractory

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Hard/impossible to manage

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Iconoclast

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Someone who disagrees with popular religion

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Enervate

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Emasculate, take away ones ‘fire’

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Levity

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Not serious, lightness of mind

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Equanimity

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Equilibrium, calm under tension

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Structure

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Structure

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Opulent

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Richly appointed

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Disparage

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Bring down

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Discursive

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Blabbing from one subject to next

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Edify

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Prosper someone