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People And Relationships Flashcards

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Opportunistic

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Using situations for own benefit

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Methodical

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Systematic, careful

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Chauvinistic

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Too patriotic

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Get carried away

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Become too excited and lose control

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Conscientious

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Wishing to do one’s work or duty well and thoroughly

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Obliging

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Ready to help

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Superficial

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Appearing to be true or real only until examined more closely

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Tactless

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Inclined to say things that upset or offend people

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Intuitive

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Understanding instictively

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Diligent

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Hard-working

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Placid

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Calm, does not easily become excited or angry

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Cunning

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Being deceitful

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Magnetic personality

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Personality that attracts people to you

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Distrustful

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Not trusting, suspicious of others

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Industrious

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Diligent and hard-working

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Shrewd

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Having good judgement

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Extravagant

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Spends too much money or uses too much of something

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Down-to-earth

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Practical and sensible

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Altruistic

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Thinking of others rather than yourself

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Morose

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Gloomy

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Sharp-tongued

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Inclined to speak in a severe and critical way

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Unstinting

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Given or giving without restraint; unsparing

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Dogged

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Determined to do something

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Thrifty

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Using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully

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Frugal

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Simple and plain and costing a little

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Immoderate

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Not sensible or restrained; excessive

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Obstinate

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Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so

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Stingy

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Mean; ungenerous

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Parsimonious

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Very willing to spend money or uses too much resources

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Workaholic

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Work-obsessed

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Dogmatic

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Inclined to lay down principles as undeniably true

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Astute

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Having the ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one’s advantage

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Pithy

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(Of language or style) terse and vigorously expressive

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Sullen

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Bad-tempered and sulky

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Brusque

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Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner

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Terse

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Sparing in the use of words; abrupt, curt

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Unprincipled

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Not acting in accordance to moral principles

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Unscrupulous

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Having or showing no moral principles, not honest or fair

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Verbose

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Using or expressed in more words than needed

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters

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Slender

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Thin in an attractive way

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Scrawny

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Unattractively thin and boney-looking

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Lanky

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Very tall and thin, and usually moving awkwardly

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Gangling/gangly

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Tall, with long, thin arms and legs and rather awkward movements, often used of men and boys

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Stout

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With a quite large, solid body; used of men and women

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Stocky

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Short snd with a body that is wide across the shoulders and chest

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Stocky

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Short snd with a body that is wide across the shoulders and chest

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Bulked up

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Increase in body size, especially by gaining more muscle

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Lean

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Thin and healhty

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Wiry

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Thin but strong

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Unkempt

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Untidy, scruffy (the opposite would be smart or neat; ‘kempt’ does not exist

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Never a hair out of place

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Always well-dressed, neat and smart-looking

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Immaculate

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In oerfect condition, smart

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Swarthy

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Dark-coloured, used about skin

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Yellowish

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Sallow

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Haggard

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Looking ill and tired

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Grimace

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Make an expression of pain or strong dislike

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Scowled

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Gave a bad-tempered, Angry look

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Leering

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Looking in an unpleasant, sexually interested way

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Tapping/drumming fingers

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Made a quick, light hitting movement

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Pout (2 meanings)

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  • Positioning lips in an attractive way
  • positioning lips in a look of annoyance

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