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Quiz #2 Flashcards

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Aesthetic

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Of or relating to art or beauty

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Aberration

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Something that is unusual or unexpected

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Ameliorate

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To make something better or less painful

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Arcane

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Known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret

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Austere

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Severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding; simple

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Blithe

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Joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful; carefree

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Capricious

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Erratic; subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change

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Chronic

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Continuing a long time or recurring frequently; constant; habitual

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Condone

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To give tacit approval to; to disregard or overlook

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Cursory

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Going rapidly over something without noticing details; hasty; superficial

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Demeanor

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Conduct; behavior; facial appearance

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Dialectical

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Characteristic of a dialect

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Disparage

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To bring reproach or discredit upon; lower the estimation of; to depreciate or belittle

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Ebb

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The flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea; a point of decline

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Embroil

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To bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife; to throw into confusion or complicate

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Erudite

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Characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly

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Expedite

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To speed up the progress of; hasten; to accomplish promptly

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Fetter

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A chain or shackle placed on the feet; anything that confines or restrains

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Furtive

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Taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret; sly; shifty

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Harbinger

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A Persian who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald; anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign

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Ignominy

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Disgrace; dishonor; public contempt; shameful or dishonorable quality

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Implausible

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Not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility

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Indefatigable

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Incapable of being tired out; not trolling to fatigue; untiring

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Insouciance

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Lack of care or concern; indifference

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Jargon

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The language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group; any talk or writing that one does not understand

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Levity

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Lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness

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Mellifluous

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Sweet or smoothly flowing; sweet sounding

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Myriad

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A very great number of persons or things; ten thousand *can be used as noun or adjective

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Officious

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Objectionably aggressive in offering ones unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome

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Peccadillo

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A very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault

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Philistine

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Lacking in or hostile to culture, or someone exhibiting such behavior

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Preclude

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To prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible

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Promulgate

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To make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation; to set forth or teach publicly

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Raconteur

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A person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly

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Remonstrate

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To say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval

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Resilient

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Returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed or stretched; springing back; rebounding; recovering from illness

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Sardonic

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Characterized by bitter, scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering

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Solicitous

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Anxious or concerned; eager; particular

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Stoic

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Free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, submitting without complaint to unavoidable necessity *noun or adjective

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Surfeit

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Excess; an excessive amount; often an excess of food or drink

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Tedious

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Wordy so as to cause weariness or boredom, as a speaker or writer; long and tiresome

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Truculent

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Fierce; cruel; savagely brutal; aggressively hostile; belligerent

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Unremitting

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Not slackening or abating; incessant

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Verbose

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Characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy

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Vitriolic

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Very caustic; scathing

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