Test Words 3 Flashcards by Anil Saddat | Brainscape

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Unseemly

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unpleasant

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Sordid

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Unpleasant

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Untenable

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Indefensible, something that cannot be defended

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Aboveboard

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Honest

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Benightedness

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Ignorance

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Austerity

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Harsh living style, lack of wordly pleasures

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Beleagured

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Facing difficulties

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Spasmodically

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irregularly in bursts

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Whir

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Continuous low sound

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Harried

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Harrass persistently

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Beseiged

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Surround something menacingly

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Feted

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Celebrate someone

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Derelict

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Ignoring ones duties

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Fawning

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Displaying exxagerated flattery

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Unflappable

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Extremely calm, not easily disturbed

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Buttress

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Support or strengthen

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Protean

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Adopt quickly, switch in and out of roles quickly

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Peripheral

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On the outside

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Fugues

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Composition, short melody or phrase

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Jaunty

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Lively, cheerful and self confident

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Vitriol

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Bitter criticism

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Tacitly

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Unspoken

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Inviolable

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Unaltered

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Unconscionable

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Immoral/Unethical

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Stridency

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Forcefulness/ loudness/ annoying gre?

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Glibness

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dishonest

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Pedagogy

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The method and practice of teaching

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Disparate

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Broken into separate groups

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Hobbled

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Held back

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Hamstrung

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Held back hindered

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Flourishes

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Fancy designs

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Humdrum

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Banal, boring

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Belabor

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Excessive Detail

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Attenuated

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Weakened or Reduced

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Miasma

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Myriad/environment that corrupts

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Broadside

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An attack

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Tepid

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Lacking enthusiasm, not hold nor cold

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Abnegation

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Self denial

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Hedonist

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A person who is motivated by pleasure

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Sybarite

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A person who is motivated by pleasure

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Onerous

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Burdensome & required a lot of effort

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Emphatic

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Expressing something forcefully, clearly

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Unavailing

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Ineffective

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Trenchant

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Incisive and sharp remark, potentially offensive to someone

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Dispatch

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Release something with speed and quickness

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Cupidity

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Greed

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Anodynes

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Soothe

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Auguries

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Omens

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Topical

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Relevant to current events

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Forsake

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Not use