Test Words 10 Flashcards by Anil Saddat

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Clairvoyance

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Supernatural prediction skills

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Inkling

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Clue

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Presentiment

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Feeling that something is going to happen, clue

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Deftly

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Cleverly

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Penitently

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Showing sorrow, repentant

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Imperilled

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In a state of conflict, put at risk of being harmed, injured or destroyed.

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Discountenance

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Refuse to approve

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Brook

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Allow, Tolerate

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Contumely

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Insolent or insulting language or treatment

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Behoove

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Duty or responsibility

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Incumbent

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Duty or responsibility

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Onus

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Duty of responsibility

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Bombastic

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Glibness, lot of talk with no backing

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Slander

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False statement to damage someones rep

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Beguiling

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Charmed but in a deceptive, childish way

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Rejoinder

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Witty reply

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Exuberance

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Full of energy, ebullient

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Heretofore

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before now, previously

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Grumbling

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Complaining

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Saturnine

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Gloomy

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Fiddler

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One who plays violin

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Moniker

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A name

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Appellation

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A name or title

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Alight

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Descend physically from plane, train

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Petered out

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Gradually Stopped

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Middling

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Average

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Surly

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Unfriendly

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Churlish

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Unfriendly, mean spirited

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Squelch

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Forcefully silence or suppress

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Farrago

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A confused mixture, mish mash

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Paltry

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Very small meager

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Foray

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A sudden attack

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Clandestine

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Kept Secret

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Feint

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A deceptive blow

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Expansive

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Cover wide area, Relaxed, Genially frank and communicative.

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Facetious

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Joking Around

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Unprepossessing

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Modest

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Redoubtable

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Formidable

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Bandied

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Discuss in uninformed way

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Ostensibly

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Stated to be true but not really, apparently

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Quixotry

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A wild impractical, immature idea

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Vapid

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Not Challenging, Bland

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Panegyric

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Written in praise

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Indisposed

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Slightly unwell, not willing (indisposed to)

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Prognostication

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Phrophesizing future events

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Esoterica

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Highly specialized subject or publication

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Enjoin

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Instruct someone to do something

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Province

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an area of special knowledge or speciality.

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Evince

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Indicate

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Cacophony

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A harsh mixture of sound