List 10 Flashcards

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Jaundiced

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Cynical; pessimistic

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Consummate

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Complete; perfect; high skill; supremely good

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Nettle

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Annoy

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Emaciated

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Very thin; withered

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Niggardly

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Miserly; stingy

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Surly

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Grumpy; rude

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Whimsical

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Capricious; changeable

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Contrite

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Sorry; affected by guilt or remorse

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Philistine

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Uncultured person

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Redolent

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Smelling of; giving off odors; strongly suggestive of something

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Willful

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Stubborn

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Guile

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Cunning; craftiness

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Phlegmatic

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Calm

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Redress

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To put something right that was wrong

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Wily

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Cunning

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Contumacious

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Stubborn

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Embroil

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Involve in hostility or argument

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Guileless

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Frank; straightforward; honest

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Nondescript

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Dull and ordinary

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Nonentity

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A person of no importance; not famous

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Sybarite

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Lover of luxury

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Zany

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Crazy

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Regale

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Entertain

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Sycophant

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Bootlicker; flattered

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Corpulent

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Fat

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Hackneyed

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Common and over-used

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Jurisprudence

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Science of study or law

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Relegate

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Dismiss to a lower position

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Zealot

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Fanatic