More Words July 21 Flashcards

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Quixotic

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Impractical, impulsive and often rashly unpredictable

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Resembling

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Similar to, to be alike

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Myriad

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Numerous

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Somber

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Gloomy

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Salient

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Prominent, conspicuous

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Salubrious

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Healthful

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Pretentious

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Ostentatious

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Militate

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To have substantial effect

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Contention

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Strife in debate

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Contemporary

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Existing, occurring, living at the same time

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Absolve

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Pardon

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Bewilder

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Confound, puzzle, perplex, mystify

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Petulant

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Irritable, peevish, fretful, petting, touchy

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Tempestuous

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Violent, stormy.

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Placid

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Pleasantly calm, peaceful

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Mercurial

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Erratic, changeable

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Pliant

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Flexible, bending

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Frenetic

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Desperate or wild with excitement, passion

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Instigate

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Foment. To cause by incitement, to urge, provoke

20
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Arrogate

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To claim unwarrantable or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right. To attribute or assign to another, ascribe

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Ascribe

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To assign

22
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Eschew

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To Avoid, abstain

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Inter

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Bury

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Imbue

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Inspire, impregnate

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Decipher

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To discover the meaning

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Exorbitant

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Exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety or reason

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Fathom

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Understand

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Apogee

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Highest point

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Epiphany

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An appearance or manifestation

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Impasse

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A position or situation from which there is no escape

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Capitulate

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To surrnd

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Regress

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To go back

33
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Impugn

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To challenge as false

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Acrimony

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Sharpness, harshness or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition

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Sinecure

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An position requiring little or no work, but yield profitable return

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Elusive

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Hard to express

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Ornate

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Elaborately, sumptuously adorn

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Translucent

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Transparent

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Diminutive

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Small

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Dilapidated

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Decayed, ruined, battered

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Orator

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Public speaker

42
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Miscreant

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A vicious or depraved person. Villain

43
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Interloper

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A person who interferes or muddies in the affairs of others

44
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Despair

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Lose hope

45
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Duress

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Compulsion by threat; coercion

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Ebullience

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High spirit, exhilaration , exuberance

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Flounder

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Struggle, stumble