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Section 5 Flashcards

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Mire

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Boggy ground or state of distress

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Multifarious

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Many types or aspects

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Mundane

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Lacking interest or excitement

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Nefarious

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Wicked or criminal

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Obsequious

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Obedient or attentive to a servile degree

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Odious

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Extremely unpleasant; repulsive

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Opaque

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Not able to be seen through

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Ostentatious

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Vulgar or pretentious display designed to attract or impress

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Palpable

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Able to be felt; tangible

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Paragon

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A person or thing regarded as perfect in quality

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Pariah

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And outcast or undesirable

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Parochial

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Relating to a church parish/narrow minded

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Paucity

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The presence of something in insufficient amounts

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Pedantic

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To be a perfectionist

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Pejorative

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Expressing contempt or disapproval

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Philistine

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Someone who is hostile, indifferent, or non-understanding of the arts

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Pique

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Resentment resulting from an attack on ones pride/to pique curiosity

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Pithy

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Concise and forcefully expressive; terse

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Poignant

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Evoking a sense of sadness

Archaic: sharp in taste or smell

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Polemical

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Involving strongly critical or controversial writing or speech

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Precocious

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Developing special abilities at an early age, especially children

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Proclivity

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The tendency to choose or do something regularly; inclination

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Progeny

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Descendants

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Prolific

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Producing large quantities

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Prosaic

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Lacking poetic beauty; common

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Protean

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Ever-changing

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Protract

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To prolong

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Pugnacity

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Readiness or desire to fight/argue

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Pulchritude

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Beauty

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Meticulous

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Being very cautious of detail

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