Test Words 8 Flashcards by Anil Saddat | Brainscape

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Wanton

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Deliverately & unprovoked

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Telling

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Interesting

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Table

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Put aside until later

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Peccadillo

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A relatively minor fault

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Nary

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NOT

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Bridle

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Show resentment

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Quibble

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A slight objection about a trivial matter

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Bristle

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Stand upright in anger or fear

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Beam

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Smile radiantly

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Guffaw

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hearty laugh

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Prudishness

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Shocked by sexual imagery

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Untrammeled

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Unrestricted

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Racy

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Lively, Entertaining or Sexually titillating

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Exhorting

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Strongly encourage someone to do something

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Enjoin

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Instruct someone to do something

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Lest

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For fear that

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Timely

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Opportune, the right time

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Canny

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Shrewdness and Good judgement in matters of money and business

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Astute

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Shrewd in assesing situation and decision making

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Capacious

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Large capacity

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Ponderous

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Slow and clumsy due to weight

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Barefaced

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Shameless and undisguised

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Titular

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Position or Title without any authority

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Treatise

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A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject

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Parenthetical

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In paretheses (by the way)

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Skeins

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Strands

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Canard

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Unfounded rumor or story

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Contrivance

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Use skill to create something artifical

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Hewing

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Chop and cut

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Transmuting

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Change in form, nature or substance

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Sordidly

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Dishonorable

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Undergirds

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Provide support or a firm basis for

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Obliquely

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Indirectly

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Discursively

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Digressing from subject to subject

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Digress

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Leave the main subject temporarily

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Retroactively

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Done afterwards

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Retrospectively

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Looking back at something after it happens

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Arch

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playful and teasing

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Puckish

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Playful, mischeviously

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Sophomoric

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Overconfident but poorly informed

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Languorous

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tiredness or inactivity, especially of a pleasurable kind

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Travail

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Painful or Laborious effort

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Tribulations

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A cause of great suffering

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Unduly

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Unwarranted

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Gratuitous

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Uncalled for, unnecessary

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Patina

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Impression or appearance of something

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Banner

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Excellent, outstanding

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Lettered

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Formally educated

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Confers

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Have discussion, exchange opinions

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Veritable

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Used for emphasis