List 17 Flashcards
1
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viable
A
practical; capable of maintaining
2
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ascetic
A
practicing self-denial; austere
3
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laud
A
praise
4
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feign
A
pretend
5
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hypocritical
A
pretending to be virtuous
6
Q
endemic
A
prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area
7
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interdict
A
prohibit; forbid
8
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dilemma
A
problem; duvidha
9
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visionary
A
produced by imagination
10
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lachrymose
A
producing tears
11
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extrapolation
A
projection; conjecture
12
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decorum
A
orderliness and good taste in manners
13
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castigation
A
punishment
14
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implement
A
put into effect
15
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discomfit
A
defeat; put to rout
16
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timbre
A
quality of a musical tone produced by a musical instrument
17
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contentious
A
quarrelsome
18
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droll
A
queer and amusing
19
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nostrum
A
questionable medicine
20
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centrifugal
A
radiating; departing from the center
