List 19 Flashcards by Pope Rodriguez Urquijo | Brainscape

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Clique

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Exlusive group of people

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Extol

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Praise highly

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Mentor

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Coach, tutor

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Facile

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Essily accomplished

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Live in a fools’s paradise

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Be happy without real basis

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Cant

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Insincere

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Umbrage

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Offense

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Magnaminous

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Generous, noble

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Vilify

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Malign

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Elucide

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Make clear

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The sum and substance

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Substancial part

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Vapid

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Uninteresting, dull

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Unwieldy

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Difficult to handle

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Proximity

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Nearness

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Lassitude

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Weakness

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Vitiate

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Destroy the use of valor

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On pins an needles

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To be en the edge

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Stagger

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Walk with unsteady steps

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Fatuous

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Silly

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Contort

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Twist violently

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Repertoire

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Works thta an artist is ready tu perform

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Imperceptible

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Extremely slight or gradual

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To have at ones’s finger- tips

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To have ready

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Rhetoric

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Use of language