Test Words 2 Flashcards by Anil Saddat | Brainscape

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Rapturous

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Characterized by feeling

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Mired

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Entangle, stuck in mud.

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Archaic

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Doing things in an old fashioned way

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Astute

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Very Knowledgable

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Redoubtable

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Formidable, Intimidating

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Specious

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Misleading in an attractive way

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Epigrammatic

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Concise, Clever and Amusing saying

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Consigned

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To give credit to someone

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Apothegm

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A short powerful statement

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Marginalia

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Non-essential or uneccessary

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Paucity

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Presence of something in small amounts

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Smattering

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Presence of something in small amounts

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Disarming

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Charm people

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Retiring

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Not interacting with people

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Promulgated

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Promote or make widely known

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Foist

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Impose an unwelcome or uneccessary thing on

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Decadent

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Moral cultural decline, someone who is luxuriously self indulgent

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Scandalous

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Disgracefully bad

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Renascence

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Revival of something that has been dormant

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Reprise

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Comeback again

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Resprisal

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Seek Revenge, eye for an eye moment

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Frailty

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Weakness

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Hubris

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Exxagerated pride or self confidence

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Perennial

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Happen over and over again

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Protracted

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Takes longer and longer time

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Lachrymose

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Teary eyed

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Penurious

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Having no money

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Stultified

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Held back, limited or stagnated

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Assuaged

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Calm down, make happy

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Spurned

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Rejected someone

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Bulwark

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Fortification, a defensive wall

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Bastion

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Stronghold

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Detente

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Easing of hostility

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Dimunition

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Reduce in size

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Admonished

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Warn

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Tangential

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Unrelated

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Discomfited

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Uncomfortable, Upset by something or disturbed

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Ruffled

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Upset, Disturbed

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Caviling

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Finding petty faults

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Doting

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Excessive care of someone

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Carping

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Finding fault

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Groveling

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Acting sychophantic

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Languish

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Forced to live in unpleasant conditions

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Artifice

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Trickery

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Brusquely

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Done tersely with a sense of rudeness

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Strictures

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Strict

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Oeuvre

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The body of work of a painter, composer or author

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Unbridled

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Unrestrained

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Blase

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Carefree

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Cavalier

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Carefree, Not worthy of attention