Most Used Words Flashcards

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Zeal

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Passion, excitement

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Whimsical

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Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner

Unpredictable

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Waver

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To fluctuate between choices
To show doubt
Indecisive

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Volatile

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Easily arouse or changeable

Threatening to erupt in violence

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Vex

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To annoy

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Verbose

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Wordy

Use more words than necessary

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Veracity

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Filled with truth and accuracy

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Venerate

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The respect deeply

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Vacillate

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To be indecisive

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Transitory

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Temporary

Lasting a brief time

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Torpor

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Extreme mental and physical sluggishness

Inactive

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Tirade

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Long, harsh speech or verbal attack

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Taciturn

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Silent, not talkative

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Tacit

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Done without using words

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Sublime

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Lofty or grand

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Stolid

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Unemotional

Lacking sensitivity

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Stigma

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A mark of shame or discredit

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive 
Seemingly plausible (seems to be true)  but fallacious (idea is wrong) 

Seems to exist but does not

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy (not having much energy or enthusiasm)

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Satiate

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To satisfy fully or overindulge

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Rhetoric

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Effective writing or speaking

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Reticent

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Silent

Reserved

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Repudiate

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To reject the validity of

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Rarefy

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To make thinner or sparser (small amount and spread all over the area)

Less dense (contains a lot of)

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Quiescent

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Motionless

Quiet and inactive

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Pungent

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Sharp and irritating to the senses

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Prudence

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Wisdom, caution, or restraint

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Propriety

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Correct behavior

Obedience to rules and customs

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Propitiate

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To conciliate (end disagreement with)
To appease (stop them of being angry by giving them what they want?
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Proliferate

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To increase in number quickly

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Prodigal

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Lavish, wasteful

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Pristine

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Fresh and clean

Uncorrupted

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Prevaricate

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To lie or deviate from the truth

To act or speak in an evasive manner