More Vocab Journal Flashcards

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Sagacity

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Having good judgement, Wise

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Grandiloquent

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Pompous, Extravagant

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Commodius

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Roomy and comfortable

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Profligate

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Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in use of resources

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Wastrel

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Good-for-nothing person, Profligate

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Churl

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Rude in a mean spirited way

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Decorous

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In keeping with good taste

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Cicatrix

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Scar of a healed wound

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Wanton

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Deliberate and unprovoked

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Approbatory

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Expressing praise or approval

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Blandishing

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Coaxing someone with kind words

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Ponderous

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Unpleasantly boring

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Affable

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Friendly

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Analeptic

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Stimulant drug

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Parochial

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Relating to a church parish / limited in scope

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Vapid

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Uninteresting

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Tumid

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Swollen / Pompous, Bombastic

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Trenchant

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Incisive, Sharply focused, Cutting

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Soporific

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Tending to cause sleep

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Importuned

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Harassed persistently to do something

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Salient

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Most noticeable or important

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Plangent

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Loud, Reverberating, often melancholy

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Pastiche

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Artistic work in the style of another

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Encomium

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Speech or writing that praises

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Magnanimity
Generosity, Forgiveness
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Scatalogical
Characterized by an interest in excretion
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Diminutive
Unusually small
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Ascetic
Simple, Unadorned
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Furtive
Sneaky, Suspicious
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Risible
Provoking Laughter
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Elucidate
Make something clear, explain
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Recalcitrant
Having an uncooperating attitude
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Augur
To be a sign or omen of something
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Undemonstrative
Quiet
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Poltroon
Cowardly
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Pusillanimous
Lacking courage
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Anodyne
Alleviating pain, inoffensive
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Parlous
Perilous
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Pertinacious
Resolute, Stubborn
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Intractable
Obstinate
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Unctuous
Insincere, groveling, excessively flattering
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Doughty
Valiant, Fearless
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Contrite
Feeling or expressing remorse at the recognition that one has done wrong.
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Insolent
showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect
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Nonplussed
so surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react
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Consternation
amazement that throws something into confusion
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Calumny
Slander
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Impertinance
Lack of respect, Rudeness
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Indolence
Laziness
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Appellation
Name, Title
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Dolorous
Miserable, Anguished
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Sojourn
Temporary stay or rest
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Copse
Group of trees
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Perquisites
A benefit which one enjoys or is entitled to on account of one's job or position, Perks
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Fortuitous
Showing good luck
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Explicate
Analyse and develop (an idea or principle) in detail
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Protean
Tending or able to change frequently or easily
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Sectarian
Narrow-minded
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Prurient
Lewd
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Providential
Very lucky
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Rectitude
Righteousness