Sat List 6 Flashcards

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Inordinate

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Excessive, unrestrained

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Fatuous

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Silly, inane

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Irascible

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Irritable, easily angered

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Loquacity

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Talkativeness, especially when excessive

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Obviate

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To dispose of effectively; to anticipate so as to render unnecessary

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Pithy

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Concise but full of substance and meaning

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Provincial

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Pertaining to the country; not fashionable or sophisticated, narrow in perspective

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Rancor

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ill will, spite, malice

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Supercilious

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Proud, disdainful

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Truculent

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Quarrelsome, belligerent, harsh, scathing

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Abrogate

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To abolish, to rescind

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Adamant

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Inflexible, unyielding

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Avarice

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Greed

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Bucolic

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Rustic, pastoral

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Circuitous

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Indirect, roundabout

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Cupidity

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Greed, avarice

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Debacle

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Defeat, total collapse or failure

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Denigrate

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To disparage or blacken the character of

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Dissemble

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To pretend, to feign

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Enmity

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Hostility, ill will