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Word Smart 5th Edition > Quick Quiz #2 > Flashcards

Quick Quiz #2 Flashcards

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Arduous

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Difficult

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Aristocratic

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Of noble birth

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Artful

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Crafty

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Artifice

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Trickery

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Ascendancy

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Supremacy

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Ascetic

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Hermitlike

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Assiduous

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Hardworking

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Assimilate

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Absorb

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Assuage

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Soothe

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Astute

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Shrewd

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Attrition

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Gradual wearing away

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Audacity

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Boldness

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Augment

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Make bigger

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Austere

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Unadorned

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Autocratic

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Extremely bossy

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Autonomous

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Acting independently

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Avarice

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Greed

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Avow

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Claim

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Avuncular

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Like an uncle

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Awry

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Off course

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Axiom

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Self-evident truth

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Banal

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Unoriginal

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Bane

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Poison

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Bastion

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Stronghold

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Beget

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Give birth to

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Belabor

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Go over repeatedly

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Beleaguer

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Surround

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Belie

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Give a false impression

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Belittle

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Make to seem little

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Belligerent

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Combative

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Bemused

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Confused

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Benefactor

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Donor

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Beneficiary

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One who receives benefits

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Benevolent

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Generous

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Benign

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Not harmful

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Malignant

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Deadly

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Malign

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Injure with lies

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Malevolent

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Intending harm

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Malefactor

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Evildoer

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Bequest

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Something left in a will

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Bequearth

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Leaving in a will

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Bereaved

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Left desolate

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Beset

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Blasphemy

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Irreverence

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Blatant

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Offensively noisy

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Blight

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Plant disease

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Blithe

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Bourgeois

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Middle class

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Bovine

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Canine

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Feline

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Equine

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Piscine

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Porcine

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Ursine

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Brevity

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Broach

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Open a subject

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Bucolic

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Charmingly rural

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Bureaucracy

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Inflexible administration

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Burgeon

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Burlesque

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Ludicrous imitation

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Cacophony

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Harsh mixture of sounds

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Cadence

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Cajole

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Persuade deceptive

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Callow

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Candor

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Truthfulness

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Capitalism

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Free enterprise

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Capitulate

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Recapitulate

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Capricious

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Unpredictable

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Caricature

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Distorted portrait

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Castigate

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Criticize severely

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Catalyst

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It makes things happen

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Categorical

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Unconditional

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Catharsis

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Relieving purification

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Catholic

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Caustic

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Celibacy

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Abstinence from sex

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Censure

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Condemn severely

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Cerebral

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Chagrin

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Humiliation

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Charisma

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Magical attractiveness

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Charlatan

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Chasm

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Gaping hole

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Chastise

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Chicanery

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Chimera

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Choleric

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Hot-tempered

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Chronic

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Chronological

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In order of occurrence

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Chronology

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A list in time order

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Chronicle

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An account of past times

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Circuitious

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Roundabout

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Circumlocution

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Indirect expression

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Circumscribe

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Draw a line around

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Circumspect

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Circumvent

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Civil

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Clique

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