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Word Smart 1 > List 10 (30 words) > Flashcards

List 10 (30 words) Flashcards

1
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Acerbic

A

Sharp

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2
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Adulation

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Excessive admiration or praise

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Alacrity

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Cheerful eagerness

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Brevity

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Briefness

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5
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Bucolic

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Charmingly rural

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Choleric

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Hot-tempered

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Charlatan

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Fraud

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Connoisseur

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An expert

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Culpable

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Guilty

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Desiccate

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To dry out

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Efface

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To erase

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12
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Fatalist

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Someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them

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Fervour

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Passionate feeling

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14
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Forgo

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To go without

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15
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Iconoclast

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One who attacks popular beliefs

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Ignominy

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Deep disgrace

17
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Insatiable

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Hard or impossible to satisfy

18
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Insular

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Ignorant of or uninterested in other ideas

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Libel

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A published false statement which damages a person’s reputation

20
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Malaise

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A feeling of depression

21
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Myopia

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Nearsightedness

22
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Neologism

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A new word or phrase

23
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Mendicant

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Beggar

24
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Opulent

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Luxurious

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Patrician

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Aristocrat

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Penitent

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Feeling or showing sorrow and regret

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Perennial

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Continual

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Prodigal

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Wastefully extravagant

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Quixotic

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Unrealistically idealistic

30
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Rustic

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Rural

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