List 4 Flashcards by Hannah Panda | Brainscape

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Impecunious

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Having no money

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Cantankerous

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Bad-tempered; quarrelsome

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Salubrious

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Health-giving; healthy; pleasant (place)

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Truant

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Shirker; someone absent without permission

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Capacious

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Spacious

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Precipitous

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Done in a hurry

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Salutary

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Something that teaches you a lesson; beneficial

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Capitulate

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Surrender; give in

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Ossify

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Turn to bone

2. Become fixed and rigid

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Preclude

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Prevent or make impossible

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Sanctimonious

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Hypocritically holy; pretending to be morally superior to others

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Carping

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Constant criticism

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Lummox

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Clumsy person

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Sanction

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Give approval to

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Turpitude

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Depravity; wickedness

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Cartographer

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Person who makes maps

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Expatriate

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Refugee

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Inadvertent

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Unintentional

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Sanguinary

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Bloodthirsty; bloody

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Tyro

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Novice; beginner

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Destitution

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Hardship; poverty; misery

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Overt

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Obvious; not hidden

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Sanguine

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Optimistic; cheerful

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Catharsis

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Purging of pent-up emotions

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Machinations

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Plots and plans

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Overwrought

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Worked up; in an emotional state

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Preeminent

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Famous; outstanding

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Unalloyed

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Undiluted; total; pure

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Caucus

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Type of private political meeting

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Maelstrom

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Whirlpool; storm in the ocean

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Palatable

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Good to eat; agreeable

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Savant

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Person with knowledge

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Unctuous

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Oily; using excessive flattery

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Caustic

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Burning

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Incipient

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Just beginning

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Palisade

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Fence made of posts

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Cavalcade

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Procession of vehicles

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Extradite

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Deport from one country back to the home country

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Magnate

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Powerful businessman

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Palliative

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A remedy that improves but doesn’t cure