Section 2 Flashcards

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Conjugal

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Relating to marriage

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Confluence

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The act or process of merging

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Contentious

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Likely to cause argument; controversial

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Conundrum

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A confusing or difficult problem or question

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Copious

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Abundant amount

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Corpulence

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The state of being fat

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Coterie

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An exclusive group with common interests or tastes

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Credulous

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Ready to believe anything

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Cryptic

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Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure

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Curmudgeon

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A bad tempered person

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Dearth

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A scarcity or lack of something

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Demagogue

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A leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires of the public rather than logical arguement

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Desecrate

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To violently damage a a holy or sacred place

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Diatribe

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A forceful and bitter attack against someone or something

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Diffidence

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Modesty or shyness due to lack of confidence

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Dilatory

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Slow to act or intentional delay

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Disaffected

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Unsatisfied with authority and no longer willing to support them

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Discursive

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Discourse/digression from subject to subject

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Dissemble

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To hide ones true motives, feelings, or beliefs

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Disparage

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To regard something or swine as worthless

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Dispassionate

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Unaffected by emotions-able to be rational and impartial

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Dissonant

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Without harmony/bad combination

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Dissuade

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To persuade someone not to do something

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Divination

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The practice of seeking knowledge of the future through supernatural means

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Dotard

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An old person; especially weak and senile

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Duplicity

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Decietfullness

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Egregious

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Outstandingly bad/shocking

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Elegiac

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Having mournful quality

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Elucidate

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To make something clear or to explain

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Emanate

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To radiate or emit