List 6 Flashcards by Hannah Panda | Brainscape

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Fecund

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Fertile

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Choleric

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Easily angered

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Parity

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Equality

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Dirge

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Mournful song

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Felicitous

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Apt

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Parochial

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Narrow-minded; concerned only with local matters

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Utilitarian

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Useful

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Circuitous

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Indirect

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Disapprobation

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Disapproval

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Martinet

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Person who believes in strict discipline

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Proletarian

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Member of the working class

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Apocryphal

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Of doubtful origin

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Circumlocution

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Using too many words; long-windedness

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Parry

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Ward off; avoid

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Prolific

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Producing a lot

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Vacillate

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Waver; hesitate

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Circumscribe

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Limit

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Finesse

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Skill

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Parsimonious

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Economical; frugal; thrifty

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Vacuous

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Empty; silly; meaningless

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Circumspect

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Cautious; considering all sides

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Fitful

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Not continuous; stopping and starting

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Inexorable

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Relentless

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Maverick

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A loner

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Parsimony

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Stinginess; frugality

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Prosaic

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Dull; boring; ordinary

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Esoteric

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Understood by a small number of people with a specialized knowledge

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Vagrant

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Person wandering without a home

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Flagrant

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Clearly wrong

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Proscribe

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Forbid

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Vapid

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Dull; uninteresting

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Clairvoyant

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Psychic; mystic

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Prosody

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Study of versification

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Arcane

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Obscure; known only to a few people

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Discursiveness

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Log windedness; indirectness

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Prostration

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Lying face down

2. Be overcome with extreme weakness

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Menagerie

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Collection of animals

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Soothsayer

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Fortune teller