Magoosh Words Flashcards
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Pellucid
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Easy to understand
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Derivative
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Unoriginal
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Corroborate
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Confirm
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Perennial
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Everlasting
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Spartan
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Unconcerned with comfort
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Recapitulation
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Summary
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Capitulate
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Surrender
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Implausible
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Unlikely, unreasonable
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Whimsical
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Driven by impulse
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Precedent
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Earlier example
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Equivocate
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Speak vaguely
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Pith
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Most essential part
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Pithy
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Concise and forcefully expressive
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Panacea
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Cure-all
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Demonstrative
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Showing emotion
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Primacy
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Of greatest importance
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Dispassionate
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Objective
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Arduous
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Requiring great effort
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Illicit
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Illegal
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Artless
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Naive
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Compound
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Make more intense
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Discrete
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Separate
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Credulity
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Tendency to believe
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Elicit
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Call into being
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Unequivocal
Having clear meaning
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Improvident
Not careful
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Fickle
Changing unpredictably
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Preempt
Take the place of
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Elusive
Hard to pin down
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Constituent
Part of a whole
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Apogee
Highest point
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Tyro
Beginner
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Incontrovertible
Indisputable
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Complaisant
Cheerfully obedient
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Corollary
Consequence
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Admonish
Warn
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Histrionic
Overly theatrical
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Gambit
Scheme
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Antic
Grotesque
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Inchoate
Not fully formed
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Endemic
Native
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Disinterested
Unbiased
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Flag
Tire
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Artless
Without deception
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Malinger
Avoid work
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Celerity
Quickness
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Precipitate
Hasty
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Lacerated
Deeply distress
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Machinate
Scheme (v.)
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Catholic
Universal
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Halcyon
Peaceful
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Inure
Harden
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Spendthrift
Wasteful with money
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Chimera
Illusion
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Nadir
Lowest point
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Noisome
Foul smelling
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Unpropitious
Unlikely to be successful
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Solicitude
Feeling of concern
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Puissant
Powerful
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Apothegm
Short saying
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Bastardization
Corruption
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Pariah
Outcast
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Corollary
Consequence
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Grandiloquent
Pompous
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Disinterested
Unbiased
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Endemic
Native
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Celerity
Quickness
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Artless
Without deception
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Halcyon
Peaceful
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Machinate
Scheme
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Puissant
Powerful
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Underscore
Emphasize
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Unpropitious
Unlikely to be successful
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Solicitude
Feeling of concern
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Apothegm
Short saying
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Aspersion
Criticism, attack on reputation
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Calumny
Criticize or slander
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Castigate
Reprimand or criticize
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Excoriate
Criticize severely
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Gainsay
Speak against or oppose
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Impugn
Question validities
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Inveigh
Speak or write with hostility; criticize
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Objurgate
Criticize
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Obloquy
Criticize
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Opprobrium
Harsh criticism
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Pillory
Criticism; the wooden thing that chained people's hands and feet
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Vituperate
Criticize
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Apocryphal
Doubtful
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Canard
An unfounded rumor
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Chicanery
The use of trickery for politics, finances or law
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Dissemble
Conceal true motives
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Equivocate
Use ambiguous language to conceal the truth
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Ersatz
Not genuine
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Mendacious /mendacity
Not telling the truth
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Perfidy
Deceitfulness
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Prevaricate
Speak or act evasively
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specious
Misleading attractive
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Spurious
False or fake
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Spendthrift
Wasteful with money
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Retiring
Shy
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Reprisal
Retaliatory action
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Baleful
Threatening
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Impecunious
Having little money
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Assuage
Make less severe
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Malfeasance
Wrongdoing
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Hauteur
Disdainful pride
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Eminent
Highly respected
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Pundit
Expert
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Firebrand
Troublemaker
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Moribund
About to die
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Proscribe
Ban
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Exonerate
Free from blame
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Eclectic
Having variety
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Percipient
Perceptive
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Punctilious
Overly precise
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Irascible
Easily angered
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Asperity
Harshness of manner
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Ameliorate
Improve
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Boorish
Ill-mannered
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Anomaly*
Deviates from the norm
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Equivocal
Open to more than one interpretation
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Lucid
Expressed clearly
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Precipitate
V. To cause something to happen
Adj. something that happened unexpectedly
N. A substance that came from a solution
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Assuage
Make less intense
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Erudite
Having great learning
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Opaque
Not clear
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Prodigal
Reckless, specifically with money
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Enigma
A person or thing that is puzzling
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Fervid
Intensely enthusiastic
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Placate
Make someone less angry
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Zeal
Great enthusiasm
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Abstain
Stay away from
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Audacious
Risk taker
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Desiccate
Lacking passion
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Gullible
Easily persuaded
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Laudable
Deserving praise
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Pedant
Overly concerned with details
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Vacillate
Waver between opinions
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Calumny
Slander
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Adulterate
Make something poorer in quality by adding something else
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Capricious
Given to mood swings
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Engender
To cause or give rise to
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Homogenous
Of the same kind
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Loquacious
Talkative
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Pragmatic
Dealing with things sensibly
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Volatile
Liable to change rapidly
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Apathy
Lack of interest
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Corroborate
Confirm or give support to
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Ephemeral
Short lasting
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Laconic
Using very few words
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Mitigate
Make less severe
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Proprietary
Relating to ownership
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Magisterial
Domineering
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Cosseted
Overly pampered
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Martinet
Disciplinarian
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Taciturn
Quiet
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Vituperate
Scold severely
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Fecund
Mentally productive
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Approbatory
Showing approval
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Surfeit
Excessive amount
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Bromide
Unoriginal remark
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Mettlesome
Courageous
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Complicit
Taking part in
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Tout
Advertise or sell strongly
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Urbane
Sophisticated
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Effrontery
Insolent behavior
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Magisterial
Domineering
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Philistine
Hater of culture
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Ameliorate
Improve
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Boorish
Ill-mannered
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Lampoon
Poke fun at
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Fell
Evil
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Sanctimonious
Showy and morally superior (think Mormon church)
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Cupidity
Greed for money
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Rapprochement
Reconciliation
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Tawdry
Cheap and showy
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Callow
Inexperienced
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Hedge
Limit
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Protean
Versatile
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Rarefied
Refined
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Wax
Increase gradually
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Brook
Put up with
