Lists 16-20 Flashcards

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Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

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Insidious

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Seductive

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Inure

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To cause someone or something to become accustomed to a situation

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Invective

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Angry verbal attack

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Inveterate

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Stubbornly established by habit

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Juxtaposition

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The act of placing two things next to each other for implicit comparison

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Largess

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The generous giving of gifts

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Latent

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Hidden, but capable of being exposed

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Limpid

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Clear, transparent

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Maudlin

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Weakly sentimental

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Mawkish

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Characterized by sick sentimentality

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Mendacious

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Having a lying, false character

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Mercurial

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Characterized by rapid change

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Modicum

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Small amount of something

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Morass

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A wet, swampy bog; figuratively something that traps and confuses

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Multifarious

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Having a great diversity or variety

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Munificence

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Generosity in giving

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Myriad

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Consisting of a very great number

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Nadir

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The lowest point of something

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Nascent

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In the process of being born or coming into existence

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Nefarious

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Heinously villainous

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Neophyte

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Someone who is young or in experienced

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Obfuscate

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To render incomprehensible

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Oblique

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Not straightforward

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Obsequious

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Excessively compliant or submissive

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Obstreperous

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Noisy, unruly

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Obtuse

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Lacking quickness of sensibility or intellect

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Odious

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Instilling hatred

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Opulent

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Characterized by rich abundance verging on ostentation

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Polemic

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An aggressive argument against a specific opinion

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Portent

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An omen

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Precocious

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Advanced, developing ahead of time

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Prescient

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To have foreknowledge of events

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Primeval

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Original, ancient

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Probity

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Virtue, integrity

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Proclivity

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Strong inclination towards something

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Prosaic

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Plain, lacking liveliness

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Quagmire

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A difficult situation

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Recalcitrant

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Defiant, unapologetic

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Rectitude

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Uprightness, extreme morality

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Spurious

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False but designed to seem plausible

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Tantamount

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Equivalent in value or significance

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Temerity

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Audacity, recklessness

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Tenuous

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Having little substance or strength

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Timorous

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Timid, fearful

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Vacillate

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Fluctuate, hesitate

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Vacuous

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Lack of content or ideas, stupid

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Vapid

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Lacking liveliness, dull

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Vicarious

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To experience through another

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Legerdemain

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Deception, slight of hand

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Licentious

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Displaying a lack of moral or legal restraints