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list E Flashcards

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chortle

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v. Funny: to chuckle gleefully

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droll

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n,v,adj. Funny: amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous

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facetious

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adj. Funny: not meant to be taken seriously or literally. Amusing, humorous.

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flippant

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adj. Funny: frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness

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gibe

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v. Funny: to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer

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jocular

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adj. Funny: given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking.

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levity

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n. lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness

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ludicrous

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adj. Funny: causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable

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raillery

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n. Funny: good-humored ridicule; banter.

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abatement

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n. Gaps/opening. the act or state of abating or the state of being abated; reduction; decrease; alleviation; mitigation.

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aperture

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n. opening/gaps: an opening, as a hole

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fissure

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n. opening/gaps: a narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts.

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hiatus

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n. opening/gaps: a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action. a missing part.

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interregnum

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n. opening/gaps: an interval of time between the close of a sovereign’s reign and the accession of his or her normal or legitimate successor. any period of freedom from the usual authority

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interstice

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n. opening/gaps: an intervening space. a small, narrow space, interval between things or parts.

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lull

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v. opening/gaps: to put to sleep or rest by soothing means.

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orifice

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n. opening/gaps: an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe

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respite

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n. opening/gaps: a delay or cessation for a time, an interval of relief

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rift

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n. opening/gaps: an opening made by splitting, cleaving.

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altruistic

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adj. generous/kind

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beneficent

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adj. generous/kind: doing good or causing good to be done

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clement

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adj. generous/kind: mild or merciful in disposition or character.

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largess

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n. generous/kind. generous bestowal of gift.

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magnanimous

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adj. generous/kind: generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness

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munificent

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adj. generous/kind: extremely liberal in giving

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unstinting

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v. generous/kind

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avaricious

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adj. Greedy

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covetous

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adj. Greedy: inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth

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mercenary

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n, adj. Greedy: working or acting merely for money or other reward

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miserly

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adj. greedy: penurious, stingy

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penurious

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adj. greedy: extremely stingy; parsimonious

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rapacious

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adj. greedy: to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed

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venal

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adj. Greedy: willing to sell one’s influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to bribery;

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asperity

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n. hard-hearted: harshness or sharpness of tone.

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baleful

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adj. hardhearted: full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious

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dour

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adj. hardhearted: sullen; gloomy; severe; stern

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malevolent

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adj. hardhearted: wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will

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mordant

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adj. hardhearted: sharply caustic or sarcastic

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sardonic

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adj. hardhearted: characterized by bitter or scornful derision

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scathing

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adj. hardhearted: bitterly severe, as a remark

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truculent

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adj. hardhearted: fierce; cruel; savagely brutal

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vitriolic

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adj. hardhearted: very caustic, scathing

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vituperation

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n. hardhearted: verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation

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baleful

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adj. harmful

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baneful

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adj. harmful

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deleterious

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adj. harmful: injurious to health

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inimical

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adj. harmful: adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable;; unfriendly; hostile

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injurious

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adj. harmful.

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insidious

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adj. harmful: intended to entrap or beguile

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minatory

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adj. harmful: threatening.

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perfidious

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adj. harmful: deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful

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pernicious

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adj. harmful: causing insidious harm or ruin.

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