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Robie's List Flashcards

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Egregious

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Conspicuously bad or offensive

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Gregarious

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Fond of being with others

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Ambiguous

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Permitting more than one interpretation

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Intransigent

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Unwilling to agree or compromise

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Eclectic

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Selecting the best from various sources

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Aberration

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A deviation from the path

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Parochial

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Narrow or limited

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Precipitous

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Very steep

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Paucity

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A scarcity or lack

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Pejorative

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Tending to make worse

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Moratorium

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A suspension of or delay in the application of a rule; often dealing with payments

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Parsimonious

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Too economical: stingy: miserly

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Inadvertent

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Lax, careless, without intention

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Objective

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Without bias

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Discriminate

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To differentiate; to see the difference

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Disdain

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Arrogant scorn; contempt

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Idiosyncrasy

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A trait or behavior particular to an individual

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Conciliatory

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Making peace

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Prodigal

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Extravagant; wasteful

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Equivocal

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Having two or more meanings; vague

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Deride

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To ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously

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Insipid

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Without interesting qualities

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Austere

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Unadorned; severely simple

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Expedite

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To make faster or easier

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Expedient

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Providing immediate advantage

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Vacillate

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To be indecisive

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Ambivalent

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Undecided; hot and cold

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Anecdote

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Brief entertaining story; (unpublished)

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Didactic

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Instructive; intended to teach

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Prosaic

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Dull; unimaginative

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Florid

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Flowery or elaborate

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Fastidious

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Meticulous; with attention to detail

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Astute

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Perceptive, intelligent

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Censure

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To condemn severely

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Engender

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To create or produce

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Relegate

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To banish; send away

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Acclaim

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Praise; applaud; admiration

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Anachronism

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A person thing or action belonging to an earlier time

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Incoherent

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Jumbled; chaotic; impossible to understand

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Articulate

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To speak clearly and well

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Wry

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Dryly humorous with a hint of bitterness or irony

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Solicit

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To ask for; to request; to seek

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Reproach

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Iconoclast

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A person who challenges time honored traditions or beliefs

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Indolence

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Congenial

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Pleasant; agreeably suitable

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Preclude

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To prevent; to make things impossible; to shut out

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Stock

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Of a common, ordinary, or overused type

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Apprehensive

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Worried, anxious

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Reprehensible

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Worthy of blame or censure

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Acquiesce

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To give in; agree

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Dubious

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Doubtful; uncertain

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Flagrant

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Shocking; outstandingly bad

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Immutable

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Unchangeable; permanent

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Apocryphal

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Of doubtful origin; false

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Levity

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Lightness; frivolity; unseriousness

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Nascent

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Coming into existence; emerging

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Caustic

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Like acid; corrosive

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Exhaustive

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Thorough; complete

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Frivolous

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Not serious; without merit

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Sagacious

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Wise; sage; sage-like

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Indulgent

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Lenient; yielding to desire

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Scrupulous

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Hesitant for ethical reasons; strict; careful

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Stoic

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Indifferent to pleasure and pain (or any emotion)

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Abdicate

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To formally give up power

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Auspicious

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Attended by favorable circumstances

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Fortuitous

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Accidental; occurring by chance

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Convoluted

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Intricate; complex

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Dilatory

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Tending to delay; not prompt

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Enervate

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To take the strength out of; to weaken

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or sleepiness

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Exacerbate

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To make something already bad, worse; to irritate; to exasperate

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Superfluous

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Extra; unnecessary

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Conscientious

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Thoughtful

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Substantiate

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To support with proof

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Recalcitrant

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Stubborn; defiant to authority

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Exculpate

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To free from guilt or blame

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Venerable

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Worthy of honor, usually because of age or distinguished experience

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Cogent

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Convincing; reasonable

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Effusive

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Emotionally expressive, gushy

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Profuse

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Flowing, extravagant

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Abstruse

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Hard to understand

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Sedentary

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Not migratory, settled

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Gratuitous

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Given freely; unearned; unwarranted

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Propriety

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Correctness of behavior

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Imperious

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Arrogantly overbearing, dictatorial

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Deleterious

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Having a harmful effect; injurious

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Capricious

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Impulsive and unpredictable

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Vacuous

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Devoid of matter; empty

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Copious

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Abundant, plentiful

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Lucid

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Easily understood; clear

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Volatile

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Quick to evaporate, unstable, explosive

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Peripheral

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Unimportant

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Hedonistic

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Pleasure seeking, indulgent

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Idiom

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A particular expression

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Brevity

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Inexorable

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Unable to be altered or persuaded

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Coalesce

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To fuse; to unite; to come together

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Virtuoso

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Masterful musician; expert of any field

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Trepidation

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Fear; apprehension

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