Section 6 Flashcards

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Rancorous

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Bitterness or resentment

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Rarefy

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To make thin, less dense, or spiritual

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Raze

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To completely destroy

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Recalcitrant

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Having an uncooperative attitude toward authority

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Recant

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To take back and opinion

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Reprobate

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A degenerate (used humorously)

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Ribald

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Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude way

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Ruminate

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To thinking deeply about something

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Saccharine

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Sweet (it’s an artificial sugar)

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Savant

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A very smart person

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Stultify

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To cause to lose enthusiasm or initiative as a result of a tedious routine

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Supercilious

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Thinkin or behaving as if one is better than the rest

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Surfeit

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excessuve amounts of something

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Surly

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Bad tempered or unfriendly

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Taciturn

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Reserved or untalkative

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Tantamount

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Equal to or the same as

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Tenuous

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Very weak or slight

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Trepidation

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The feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen

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Turgid

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Swollen literally or figuratively (pompous)

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Turpitude

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Depravity or wickedness

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Undulate

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To move in a smooth or wavelike motion

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Unwieldy

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Difficult to carry or move because of its size shape or weight

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Veracity

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Accuracy or truthfulness

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Verbose

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Wordy

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Viable

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Capable of working successfully

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Virulent

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Extremely severe or harmful poison or bitter and hostile

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Vociferous

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Vehement or clamorous

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Vouchsafe

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To give or reveal in a condescending manor

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Zenith

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The highest point re he’s by a celestial object

30
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Quixotic

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Exceedingly idealistic, unrealistic, and impractical