MC 7 Flashcards

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Feigned

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Simulated or pretended; insincere

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Idolatrous

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Worshiping idols

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed feeling or contradictory ideas about something or someone

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Affectation

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Writing behavior or language Designed to impress

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Pomp

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Ceremony and splendid display esp.at a public event

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Perspicuity

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Clearly expressed an easily understood

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Cadence

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A modulation or inflection of the voice

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Circumlocutions

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The use of many words when fewer would do

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Strident

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Loud or harsh; grading

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Conciliatory

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Intended or likely to pacify

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Inexorable

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Impossible to stop or prevent

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Insidious

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Proceeding in a gradual or subtle way, but with harmful effects

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Extemporaneous

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Spoke. Or done with preparation

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Virtuosity

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Great skill in music or artistic pursuit

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Pedantic

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Overly teaching and knowledgable

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