List F Flashcards by Arlo Hill

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interlocutor

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someone taking part in a conversation

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intransigent

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obdurate; totally uncompromising

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pert

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attractive in a neat, perky way

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plenitude

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a state of plenty

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dour

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unsmiling; sullen; stony-faced

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forbearance

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patiently bearing with someone’s incompetence or delay

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injunction

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a legal order preventing something

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disparate

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different; unalike

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capitulate

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to give in

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emend

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to make corrections to

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flagrant

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conspicuously bad

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elegy

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a poem or statement read for the dead

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exhort

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to encourage

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carouse

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to drink and make merry

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bereft (of)

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lacking something

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maverick

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an independent-minded person

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expedient

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convenient; practical

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instigate

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to bring about; incite

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conduit

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a channel for conveying fluid; a means of transmitting something

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cleave

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to chop as with a cleaver; break in two

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annex

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(n) an additional part (v) a append; add to existing terretory

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swarthy

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dark-complexioned; tan

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invective

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highly critical, polemic language; abuse

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impute

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attribute (to)

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debunk

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discredit; show to be false

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epistolary

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relating to letters or correspondence

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circumvent

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to bypass; get around

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quaint

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attractively old-fashioned

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beguile

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to charm in a deceptive way

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knell

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the tolling of a bell, esp. for a funeral

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potentate

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an autocratic ruler

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consign

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allocate; delivery to another’s custody

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circumlocution

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equivocation; talking around the point

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engender

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generate; give rise to

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abject

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miserable; debased

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intimate

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to vaguely suggest

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disrepute

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dishonor; infamy

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espouse

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adopt + support (a belief / way of life)

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elicit

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call forth (an emotion, feeling, response)

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relegate

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assign to a lower position