Subject Appropriate Vocabulary Flashcards

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(adj) Possessing or showing courage or determination

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Valiant

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(adj) Excessively proud or self-confident

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Hubristic

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(adj) Controlling or influencing a person or situation unfairly, to your own advantage - cunning, calculating

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Manipulative

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(adj) Deserving blame

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Culpable

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(adj) Affected by or deriving from wildly uncontrolled emotion

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Hysterical

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(adj) Guilty of or involving betrayal or deception - disloyal

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Treacherous

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(adj) A feeling of fear or anxiety about something that may happen - dread, apprehension

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Trepidation

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(adj) Relating to or characteristic of a traitor; treasonous

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Traitorous

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(adJ) Seeking or intended to oppose or go against an established system or institution

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Subversive

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(adj) Of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime; utterly odious or wicked

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Heinous

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(adj) Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics - devious, scheming

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Machiavellian

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(adj) Having or showing a confident and forceful personality

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Assertive

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