Test 1 Flashcards

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Anomalous

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odd; not fitting the pattern

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Accolade

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Praise

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Apparition

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Ghost.

Something that “appears”

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Aspersion

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Negative feeling; damaging remark.

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Candid

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Truthful

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Capricious

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Fickle

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Convoluted

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Complicated or long-winded

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Despotic

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Acting like a tyrant

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Detritus

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Rubbish

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Diaphanous

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Very thin and transparent

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Dictum

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Often used saying

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Dispassionate

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Unbiased; fair

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Dowager

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And elderly woman of high social status

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Idiosyncratic

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Quirky

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Imponderable

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Cannot be understood

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Indigence

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Extreme poverty

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Inept

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Clumsy

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Jingoism

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Using words to stir up patriotism

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Lament

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To express regret over something

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Loquacious

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Extremely talkative

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Mendicancy

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Begging

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Milieu

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Environment; surroundings

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Mitigate

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To make less severe

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Nascent

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Just developing/beginning

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Orthographical

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Concerned with writing and spelling

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Ossified

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Become fixed and rigid

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Ostentatious

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Showy

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Perfidy

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Treachery; betrayal

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Profligacy

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Wasteful and immoral behavior (gatsby)

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Pugnacious

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Aggressive

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Purveyor

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One who sells something or causes something

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Respite

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A break (from work, etc)

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Stringent

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Strict