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Quick Quiz #7 Flashcards

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Obscure

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Hard to understand

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Obsequious

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Fawning

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Obtuse

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Insensitive

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Officious

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Annoyingly helpful

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Onerous

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Burdensome

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Opaque

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Impossible to see through

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Opulent

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Luxurious

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Orthodox

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Conventional

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Ostensible

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Misleading apparent

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Ostentatious

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Showing off

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Pacify

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Calm someone down

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Painstaking

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Extremely careful

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Palliate

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Alleviate

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Palpable

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Obvious

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Paltry

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Insignificant

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Panacea

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Cure for everthing

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Paradigm

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Model

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Paradox

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Contradictory truth

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Parochial

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Narrow in point of view

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Parody

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Satirical imitation

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Parsimonious

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Stingy

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Partisan

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Supporter of a cause

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Patent

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Obvious

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Paternal

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Fatherly

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Pathology

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Science of diseases

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Patriarch

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Male head of family

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Patrician

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Aristocrat

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Patronize

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Treat as an inferior

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Paucity

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Scarcity

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Peccadillo

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Minor offense

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Pedantic

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Boringly scholarly

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Pedestrian

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Unimaginative

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Pejorative

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Negative

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Penchant

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Strong liking

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Penitent

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Sorry

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Pensive

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Thoughtful and sad

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Peremptory

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Final

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Perennial

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Continual

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Perfidy

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Treachery

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Perfunctory

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Unenthusiastic

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Peripatetic

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Periphery

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Outside edge of something

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Perjury

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Lying under oath

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Permeate

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Pernicious

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Perquisite

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Job-related privilege

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Prerequisite

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Pertinent

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Perturb

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Disturb greatly

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Peruse

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Read carefully

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Pervade

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Spread throughout

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Petulant

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Philanthropy

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Love for mankind

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Philistine

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Smugly ignorant person

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Pious

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Pivotal

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Placate

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Plaintive

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Expressing sadness

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Platitude

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Trite remark

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Plebeian

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Plethora

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Poignant

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Painfully emotional

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Polarize

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Cause opposing position

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Polemic

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Powerful refutation

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Ponderous

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Massive and clumsy

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Portent

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Portentous

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Postulate

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Pragmatic

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Precedent

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Earlier example

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Precept

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Rule to live by

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Precipitate

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Cause to happen abruptly

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Precipitous

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Preclude

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Precursor

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Forerunner

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Predilection

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Natural preference

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Preeminent

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Outstanding

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Preempt

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Seize by prior right

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Premise

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Assumption

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Prepossess

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Prerogative

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Right or privilege

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Prevail

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Pristine

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Prodigal

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Wastefully extravagant

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Prodigious

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Extraordinary

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Prodigy

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Extremely challenged child

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Profane

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Irreverent

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Profess

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Proficient

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Thoroughly competent

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Profligate

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Extravagantly wasteful

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Profound

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Profuse

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Proletariat

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Industrial working class

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Proliferate

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Spread rapidly

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Prolific

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Abundantly productive

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Promulgate

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Propensity

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Natural inclination

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Propitious

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Marked by favorable signs

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Proponent

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Proprietary

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Constituting property

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