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Test Words 15 Flashcards

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness

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Exigent

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Urgent

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Extemporaneous

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done without preparation

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Fulminate

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To attack loudly

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Neologism

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A new word

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Paean

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A song of praise

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Prattle

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To babble meaninglessly

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Charry

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Wary

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Complaisance

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Willingness to comply with the will of others

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Demur

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To oppose

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Impecunious

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Lacking funds

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Incipient

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Coming into being

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Inveigle

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Obtain by deception

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Odious

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Evoke intense aversion

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Preen

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To dress up

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Quaff

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Drink deeply

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Quiscence

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Stillness

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Grandiloquence

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Pompous speech

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Idolatrous

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Excessive devotion to something

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Impassive

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Showing no emotion

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Impertubable

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Extreme calm

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Infelicitious

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Unfortunate

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Occlude

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To block

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Rancorous

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Bitter resentment

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Recalcitrant

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Defiant of authority

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Astringent

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Tightening effect

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Tenuous

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Having little substance or strength

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Contiguous

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Sharing a border

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Impetuous

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done with haste

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Pervade

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To permeate throughout

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Rarefy

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Thin, Meager

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Refulgent

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Shining Brightly

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Variegated

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Multicolored

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Terse

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Brief

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Trenchant

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Sharply perceptive

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Unfeigned

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Genuine not false

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August

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Majestic, vulnerable

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Essay

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to test or try

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Fell

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To cause to fall by striking

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Flag

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To sag or droop

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Flippant

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Sarcastic

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Ford

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Cross at a shallow place

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Grouse

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Complain or grumble

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List

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lean on one side

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Meet

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Fitting

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Nice

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fussy

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Pied

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Multicolored

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Pluck

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Courage

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Prize

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Taken by force

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Nail

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To complain

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Rent

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torn

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Quail

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To lose courage

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Scurvy

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Dispicable

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Stand

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A group of trees

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Waffle

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To equivocate

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Abjure

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To renounce or reject solemnly

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Adumbate

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to suggest sketchily

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Asservate

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To aver or assert

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Chimera

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an illusion

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Contumely

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insult

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Descry

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to catch sight of

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Desuetude

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A state of disuse

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Desultory

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lack of planning

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Disaphonous

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Transparent

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Dirge

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A song of grief or lament

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Encomium

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Enthusiastic praiseE

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Expiate

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make ammends for

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Fatuous

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Silly, foolish

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Heterodox

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Heretical

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Imbroglio

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Embarrasing situation

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Lubricious

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Wanton, loud

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Minatory

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Menacing

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Palliate

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Seem less serious

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Peroration

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Concluding part of a speech

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Plangent

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Loud, reverbarating

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Propitiate

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to appease

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Puerile

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Childish

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Puissance

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Power

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Sagacious

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Having sound judgement

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Sententious

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Aphoristic or moralistic

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Stentorian

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Extremely loud and powerful

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Stygian

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Gloomy

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Tendentious

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Biased

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Invidious

A

Likely to anger

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