Magoosh Advanced 2 Flashcards

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Dovetail

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fit together tightly, as if by means of an interlocking joint

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Effervescent

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marked by high spirits or excitement

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Effrontery

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audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to

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Enjoin

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give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

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Epigram

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a witty saying

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Enormity

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an act of extreme wickedness

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Eponym

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the name derived from a person (real or imaginary); the person for whom something is named

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Exiguity

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the quality of being meager

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Expansive

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communicative, and prone to talking in a sociable manner

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Expurgate

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to remove objectionable material

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Factitious

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artificial; not natural

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Fell

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terribly evil

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Firebrand

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someone who deliberately creates trouble

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Flippant

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showing inappropriate levity

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Gambit

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a maneuver or risk in a game or conversation, designed to secure an advantage

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Graft

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corruption, usually through bribery

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Grandiloquent

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puffed up with vanity

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Gumption

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resourcefulness and determination

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Hagiographic

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excessively flattering toward someone’s life or work

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Halcyon

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idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquility; marked by peace and propersity

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Hauteur

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overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

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Hector

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to bully or intimidate

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Hoary

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Imbibe

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to drink or absorb as if drinking

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Impecunious
lacking money; poor
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Imperious
having or showing arrogant superiority and disdain to those one views as unworthy
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Impute
attribute (responsibility or fault) to someone
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Indigent
poor; having very little
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Ineffable
too sacred to be uttered; defying expression or description
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Ineluctable
impossible to avoid or evade
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Insouciance
lack of concern
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Internecine
within a group or organization
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Inure
to make accustomed to something unpleasant
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Jejune
immature; childish
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Jingoist
a person who thinks their country should be at war
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Kowtow
to bow or act in a subservient manner
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Lascivious
lecherous; sexually perverted
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Limpid
clarity in terms of expression
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Litany
a long and tedious account of something
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Malapropism
the confusion of a word with another word that sounds similar
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Malingerer
someone shirking their duty by pretending to be sick or incapacitated
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Martinet
a strict disciplinarian
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Maunder
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; babble
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Mellifluous
smooth and sweet-sounding