Test Prep 2 Flashcards by Ashley Calderon | Brainscape

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Preeminent

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Most important or accomplished

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Precarious

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Lacking security or stability

Pre-carry-us

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Contempt

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The feeling that someone is unworthy

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Steadfast

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Loyal

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Transgressions

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A crime

Transcribing the GRE is a crime

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Tirades

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Angry Speech (e.g, Diatribe)

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Proscribe

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Forbid by law

Selling drugs without prescription is proscribed

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Paltry

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Small Amount

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Trifiling

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Unimportant

Try-Fling- not important

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Deleterious

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Harmful, damaging

Virus is harmful so delete it

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Deference

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Submission

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Elicit

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To Bring Forth

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Emphatic

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Forceful and Clear

Emphasis

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Haphazard

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No organization or plan

Letting it happen and no plan is a hazard

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Happenstance

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Happening by chance

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Hardy

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Strong and Healthy

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Haughty

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Looking down on others

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Humdrum

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Boring

You hum and drum when there isn’t anything to do

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Ire

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Intense Anger

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Asisine

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Stupid

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Mainstay

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Serving as the main support

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Immoderate

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Excessive

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Mar

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To damage the condition of

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Palatial

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Resembling a palace

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Verbose

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Wordy

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Verbose

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Wordy

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Shoddy

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Badly made

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Loathe vs Loath

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Loathe- Hate
Loath- Reluctant

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Profilic

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Producing a large amount

Pro filler- produces a large amount of

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Resolute

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Determined

We are determined to follow through with New Year’s resolutions

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Tout

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To utter the merits of people

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Abject

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Something bad experienced to the highest degree

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Admonish

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To warn against

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Advent

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Arrival of something

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Adroit

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Clever

a drone did it- clever

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Artífice

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A clever trick or insincere behavior

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Baroque

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Overly detailed and extravagant

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Befuddle

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To be confused

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Behemoth

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Huge and powerful

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Bemoan

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Sad

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Bemuse

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To make confused

Be amused bc ur confused

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Boon

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Something helpful

Bonus

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Brazen

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Bold