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Nov 12 Flashcards

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1
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Torpid

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Lethargic, mentally or physically inactive

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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance

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Lachrymose 

Aunt Vicky right now

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Tearful to given to weeping

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Diffident

Tyler - perf

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Modest or shy because of lack of self confidence

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Avaricious

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Having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain

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Baleful

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Harmful or menacing

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Portentously

P-ous

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Done in an overly solem or pompous manner

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Sedulous (Sue Sue)

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Showing dedication and diligence

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Phlegmatic

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Having an unemotional and stupidly calm disposition

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Nonplussed

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Surprise and confuse someone so much that they are unsure how to react

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Captious

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Tending to find fault or raise petty objections

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Propagate

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Spread and promote

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Noisome

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Having offensive smell

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Discordant

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Disagreeing or harsh and jarring because of lack of harmony

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Calumny

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Making of false and defamatory statement about someone to damage their reputation

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Augury

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Sign of what will happen in the future. An omen

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Portent

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A sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous is likely to happen

OR

An exceptional or wonderful person or thing

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Aspersion

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An attack on the reputation or integrity of something or someone

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Dirge

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A lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite

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Distention

Dana’s baby

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The act of swelling or becoming large by pressure from inside

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Veneration

Venhaus nation

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Great respect or reverence

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Puissance

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Great power, influence, or prowess

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Donnybrook

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Uproar or disorder. A heated argument

24
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Jejune

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Naive, simplistic, superficial

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Insouciant

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Showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent

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Vainglorious

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Overly vain, excessively proud of oneself or one’s achievements

27
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Inveterate

Inveterate smoker. Most veterans smoked.

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Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long established and unlikely to change

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Inimical

Americans to the Indians

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Tending to obstruct or harm, unfriendly, hostile

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Turgid

Turgid language or writing

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Language - tediously pompous or bombastic

Adj - swollen and distended or congested

30
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Tumid

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Pompous or bombast

Adj - swollen

31
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Euphonious

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Pleasing to the ear

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Sanguinary

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Involving or causing much bloodshed

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Equable

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Not easily disturbed or angered, calm and even tempered

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Restive

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Unable to keep still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control, especially because of impatience, dissatisfaction, or boredom

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Refulgent

Rori’s refulgent eyes

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Shining brightly

36
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Inane

Senator’s comments during Facebook ousting

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Silly and stupid

37
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Vapid

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Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging

38
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Soporific

Sopranos or symphony makes Tyler…

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Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep

39
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Predilection

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A preference

40
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Impunity

OJ murdered with impunity

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Exemption from punishment

41
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Circumspection

Circumspectacles

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Exercise caution

42
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Incandescent

Incandescent lighting

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Emitting light as a result of being heated

43
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Clandestine

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Kept secret or done secretly

44
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Reproach

The child was reproached in the grocery story

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Scold

45
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Reprove

A

Scold

46
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Disabuse

A

Persuade (someone) that an idea or belief is mistaken

47
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Dearth

A

Lack of something

48
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Surfeit

Surplus

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An excess

49
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Vestige

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A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists, or the smallest amount

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