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Level 8 Flashcards

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Alacrity

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cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
liveliness; briskness.

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Obviate

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to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.

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Emolument

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profit, salary, or fees from office or employment; compensation for services: Tips are an emolument in addition to wages.

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Intransigent

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One who refuses to agree or compromise/

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Mordant

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Sharply caustic or sarcastic.

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Sagacious

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having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.

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Acerbic

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Sour or astringent taste, harsh

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Succor

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Person/thing that gives aid, help, relief

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Importune

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To annoy by making urgent or persistent solicitations.

to make improper advances toward another person.

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Palliate

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to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.

to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate.

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Wizened

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withered; shriveled: a wizened old man; wizened features.

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Captious

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Apt to find trivial fault. Hard to please.

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Emendation

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Act if emending. Emend- to edit or change (a text). to free from faults or errors; correct.

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Truculent

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fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.

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Expurgate

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to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms’ fairy tales.
to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.

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Reprobate

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a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.

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Spurious

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Not genuine, authentic. Illegitimate birth.

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Volition

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Own will. The power or faculty of choosing; the will.

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Interpolate

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to alter or corrupt (as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter. to insert (words) into a text or into a conversation

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Adduce

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to offer as example, reason, or proof in discussion or analysis

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Miscreant

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infidel, heretic. one who behaves criminally or viciously

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Quixotic

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foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; especially : marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action

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Suppurate

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To form or discharge pus

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Martinet

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Strict disciplinarian, rigid adherence to rules.

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Compunction

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anxiety arising from awareness of guilt. distress of mind over an anticipated action or result.

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Mercurial

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having qualities of eloquence, ingenuity, or thievishness attributed to the god Mercury or to the influence of the planet Mercury
characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood.

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Nostrum

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a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine. Panacea. a medicine made by the person who recommends it.

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Propitiate

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to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease, pacify

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Efficacy

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capacity for producing a desired result or effect; effectiveness: a remedy of great efficacy.

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Tantamount

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equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification: His angry speech was tantamount to a declaration of war.

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Pariah

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an outcast. any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided.

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Germane

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Closely related, relevant. Keep your opinions germane to the discussion.

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Licentious

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Unrestrained sexually, by law, morals.

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Superannuated

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retired because of age or infirmity.
too old for use, work, service, or a position.
antiquated or obsolete: superannuated ideas.

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Egregious

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extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar.

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Vapid

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Having lost life. Dull. It became a very vapid party.

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Crotchet

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an odd fancy or whimsical notion.

a small hook.

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Epigraph

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an inscription, especially on a building, statue, or the like.

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Expatiate

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to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion: to expatiate upon a theme.

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Sinecure

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an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.

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Predilection

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a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.

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Imbroglio

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a misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations.
an intricate and perplexing state of affairs; a complicated or difficult situation.

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Ineffable

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incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.

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Stolid

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adjective. not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.

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Offal

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Rubbish food. the parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible by human beings; carrion.

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Lissome

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Flexible, agile, nimble of body

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Mellifluous

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sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.

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Surfeit

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excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.

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Blandishment

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something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice, etc.

50
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Variegated

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Varied

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