Practice Test Flashcards by Kiana Yekrang | Brainscape

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Confound

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Cause surprise or confusion

Amaze, astonish, baffle

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Repudiate

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Refuse to accept or be associated with

Reject, renounce

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Recapitulate

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Summarize, restate

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Facetious

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Treating serious issues with inappropriate humor

Flippant

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Patent

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Clearly revealed, unmistakable, obvious

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Arcane

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Secret, mysterious, obscure

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Painstaking

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Extreme care and great effort

Scrupulous

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Construe

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To interpret, see, perceive

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Vexation

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Irritated, annoyed

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Ubiquitous

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Being everywhere, all at once

Omnipresent, universal

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Fastidious

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Giving careful attention to detail

Perfectionist, painstaking

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Solicitous

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Greatly concerned, anxious to please

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Munificent

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Very generous, very liberal in giving or bestowing

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Taciturn

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Habitually reserved, uncommunicative

Saying little

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Ebullient

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Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration

Exuberant, buoyant, jaunty

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Garrulous

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Talkative

Loquacious

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Irresolute

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Feeling or showing uncertainty, hesitant, indecisive

Vacillating

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Avarice

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Greed

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Mendacity

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Untruthful

Lie, prevarication, deception

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Fortuitous

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Occurring by chance

Accidental, haphazard

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Unadorned

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Plain, simple

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Impediment

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Hindrance, obstruction

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Indolence

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Lazy, sloth, lethargy

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Belies

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Disguise or contradict, call into question