List 1 Flashcards

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Munificent

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Giver, generous

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Aggregate

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Collection or total

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Plethora

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Excess amount

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Prodigious

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Extraordinary

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Proliferate

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To spread or grow fast

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Prolific

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Producing a lot

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Attrition

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Gradual loss

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Dearth

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Lack of

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Frugal

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Economical it penny pinching

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Minuscule

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Very tiny

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Nominal

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Insignificant or small

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Parsimony

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Stingy

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Paucity

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Scarcity

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Penury

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Poverty

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Squander

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To waste

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Dystopia

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Futuristic world where present tendencies are taken to negative culminations

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Goad

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An urging or stimulus

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Prose

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A writing other than poetry

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Mediocre

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Ordinary

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Nostalgia

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Bitter-sweet longing of the past

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Byzantine

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Highly complicated

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Ephemeral

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Short lived

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Excerpt

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A section of a reading

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Memoir

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An autobiographical writing of events that the author was a part of

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Tone

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Writer’s attitude toward a subject

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Maven

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A person who specializes in an area

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Admonishing

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To deprive gently/ caution

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Lament

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To express grief

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Gendarme

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French police officer

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Penchant

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A liking