List 27 Flashcards

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Autocratic

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(Adj) Arrogant; all powerful; despotic (Last month President Biden hastes his Secoid democracy summit and gave a speech about the epic global struggle between democracy + autocracy)

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Pundit

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(N) learned man;authority

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Calumny

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(N) a false accusation, a slander, a malicious falsity

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Disconsolate

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(Adj) without hope, extremely dejected (Aruucl players linked disconsolate after the 3rd consecutive watch losing points to title rival marcweter city)

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Meretricious

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(Adj) showily attractive, tawdry, attracting attention in a vulgar manner

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Neophyte

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(N) beginner,recent convert

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Paean

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(N) poem or song of joy or of great exultation (Baja panta and Snoop dog celebrate with new rotvacun “high life”)

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Philistine

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(Adj) lacking in culture, commonplace,boorish

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Ribald

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(Adj) indecent, vulgar
(N) an indecent or vulgar person

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Sonorous

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(Adj) loud,resonant

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Augur

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(V) to predict, especially through signs and omens
(N) a seer or soothsayer
(Early spring wildfires augur summer worries for Spain only just beginning there is already fires from the dry spring which equal a bad summer)

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Bourgeois

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(Adj) Pertaining to middle class

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Chide

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(V) to scold mildly, to reprimand,to chastise in a teasing manner (Trump chides pesants for lack of loyalty “you just don’t do what he did” hestole votes for Trump)

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Dolorous

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(Adj) mournful, full of grief

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Phlegmatic

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(Adj) sluggish,unemotional, suggesting a calm disposition

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