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Nov 8th Flashcards

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Quantifiable

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Able to be expressed as an amount, quantity or numerical value

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zealous

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Marked by fervent partisanship for a person, a cause, or an ideal: filled with zeal

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Beguile

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  1. HOODWINK

2. To engage the interest of or as if by guile

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Forestall

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  1. To exclude, hinder or prevent by prior occupation or measure
  2. To get ahead of something: ANTICIPATE
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Baffle

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To defeat by confusing

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Insouciance

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Nonchalance

Relaxed and calm as if not worried about anything or do not care about anything

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Stoicism

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Indifference to pleasure or pain

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Nullify

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To make null

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Accentuate

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To make something more prominent or noticeable

ACCENT, EMPHASIZE

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Knotty

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Marked by or fully of knots

COMPLICATED

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Mundane

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Full and ordinary

Relating to ordinary life

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Vapid

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Lacking favor, zest, interests

FLAT, DULL

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Sagacious

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Of keen and farsighted penetration and judgements: DISCERNING

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Distressing

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To cause great strain or difficulties

To cause to worry or be troubled

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Detrimental

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Causing damage or injury

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Quixotic

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  1. Foolishly impractical

2. CAPRICIOUS, UNPREDICTABLE

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precarious

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Not safe, strong, or steady

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Rapacious

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  1. Excessively grasping or covetous
  2. Living on prey
  3. RAVENOUS
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Covetous

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Marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possession

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Rudimentary

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  1. Consisting in first principles FUNDAMENTAL
  2. Of a primitive kind
  3. Very imperfectly developed or represented only by a vestige
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Vestige

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A trace, mark, or visible sign left by something vanished or lost

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Perfunctory

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  1. Characterized by routine or superficiality

2. Lacking in interests or enthusiasm

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Futility

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USELESSNESS

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Degeneracy

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  1. Sexual perversion

2. Having low moral standards

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Authoritarian

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Expecting or requiring people to obey rules or laws: not allowing personal freedom

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Histrionic

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  1. Deliberately affected: overly dramatic or emotional

2. Relating to actors, theaters, or acting

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Megalomania

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A condition or mental illness that causes people to think they have great or unlimited power or importance

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Indolent

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  1. Averse to activity, effort, or movement: habitually lazy
  2. Conducive to or encouraging laziness
  3. Causing little or no pain
  4. Slow to develop or heal
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Imperturbable

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Marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness: SERENE

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Volatile

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  1. Likely to change in a very sudden and extreme way

2. Likely to become dangerous or out of control

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Duplicitous

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Marked by duplicity: deceptive in words or action

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Blithe

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  1. Lacking due thought or consideration: CASUAL, HEEDLESS

2. Of a happy lighthearted character or disposition

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Tangible

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  1. Easily seen or recognized

2. Able to be touched or felt

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Palpable

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  1. Capable of being touched or felt TANGIBLE
  2. NOTICEABLE
  3. Easily perceptible by the mind: MANIFEST
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Nebulous

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INDISTINCT, VAGUE

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Nettlesome

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Causing vexation, IRRITATING

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Incontrovertible

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Not open to question: INDISPUTABLE

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Mainstay

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A chief support

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Pertinent

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Relating to the thing being discussed or thoughts about

RELEVANT

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Disperse

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To go or move in different directions

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Feckless

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Having or resulting from a weak character or nature

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Munificent

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Very liberal in giving or bestowing

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Taciturn

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Temperamentally disinclined to talk

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Arithmetic

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COMPUTATION, CALCULATION

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Paragon

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Something perfect or excellent therefore should be a model or example to be copied

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