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Word Smart 5th Edition > Quick Quiz #6 > Flashcards

Quick Quiz #6 Flashcards

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Injunction

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Court order

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Innate

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Inborn

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Inordinate

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Excessive

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Insatiable

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Hard or impossible to satisfy

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Insidious

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Treacherous

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Insinuate

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Hint

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Insipid

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Dull

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Insolent

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Arrogant

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Instigate

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Provoke

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Insular

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Like an island

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Insurgent

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Rebel

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Integral

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Essential

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Integrate

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Combine

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Intractable

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Uncontrollable

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Intransigent

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Uncompromising

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Intrinsic

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Inherent

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Introspective

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Examining one’s feelings

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Inundate

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Flood

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Invective

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Insulting speech

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Inveterate

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Habitual

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Irascible

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Irritable

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Itinerant

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Moving from place to place

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Itinerary

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Planned trip route

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Judicious

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Exercising sound judgement

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Juxtapose

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Place side by side

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Kinetic

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Active

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Labyrinth

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Maze

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Lament

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Mourn

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Lampoon

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Satirize

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Languish

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Become weak

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Latent

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Present but not visible

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Laud

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Praise

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Legacy

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Bequest

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Lethargy

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Sluggishness

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Levity

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Lightness

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Libel

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Written injurious falsehood

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Slander

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Spoken injurious falsehood

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Litigate

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Try in court

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Loquacious

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Taking a lot

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Lucid

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Easy to understand

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Lugubrious

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Exaggeratedly mournful

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Luminious

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Giving off light

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Machination

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Scheming evil activity

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Magnanimous

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Forgiving

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Magnate

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Rich businessperson

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Malaise

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Depression

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Malevolent

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Wishing to do evil

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Malfeasance

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Illegal act

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Malignant

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Harmful

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Malinger

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Pretend to be sick

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Malleable

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Easy to shape

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Mandate

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Command to do something

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Manifest

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Visible

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Manifesto

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Public declaration

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Marshal

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Arrange in order

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Martial

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Warlike

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Martyr

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One who dies for a cause

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Matriculate

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Enroll

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Maudlin

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Overly sentimental

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Maverick

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Nonconformist

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Maxim

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Fundamental principle

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Mediate

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Help settle differences

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Mellifluous

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Sweetly flowing

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Mendacious

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Lying

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Mendicant

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Beggar

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Mentor

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Teacher

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Mercenary

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Hired soilder

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Mercurial

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Emotionally unpredictable

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Metamorphosis

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Magical change in form

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Microcosm

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World in miniature

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Milieu

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Environment

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Minuscule

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Very tiny

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Misanthropic

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Hating mankind

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Mitigate

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Moderate the effect of

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Mollify

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Soften

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Monolithic

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Massive and unyielding

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Moribund

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Dying

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Morose

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Gloomy

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Mortify

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Humiliate

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Mundane

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Ordinary

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Munificent

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Very generous

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Myopia

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Nearsightedness

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Myriad

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A huge number

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Narcissism

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Excessive love of self

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Nebulous

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Vague

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Nefarious

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Evil

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Neologism

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New word

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Nepotism

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Favoritism

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Nihilism

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Belief in the absence of all values and morals

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Nostalgia

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Longing for the past

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Notorious

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Famous for something bad

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Novel

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Original

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Noxious

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Harmful

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Nuance

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Subtle difference

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Obdurate

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Stubborn

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Obfuscate

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Confuse

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Oblique

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Indirect

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Oblivion

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Forgetfulness

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