Testtakers 251-300 Flashcards
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Assiduous
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Working devotedly and carefully
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Refined
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Polite, well bred
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Amass
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To pile up, collect
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Pulverize
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To demolish
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Fervor
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Intense emotion
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Recluse
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One who lives alone; hermit
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Retain
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To keep
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Diffident
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Timid, lacking self confidence
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Reserve
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A tendency to hold oneself back
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Extrinsic
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Not essential, from the outside
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Arid
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Dry
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Exonerate
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To free from blame
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Abet
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To encourage, urge on
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Adulterated
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To add impurities to
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Prodigious
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Immense; astonishing
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Rescind
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To repeal, cancel
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Derivative
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Copied or adapted from others
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Insipid
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Dull, uninteresting
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Engender
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To produce; to bring into existence
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Conservative
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Traditional; opposed to change
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Impede
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To black; obstruct
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Impose
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To establish by authority
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Melancholy
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Sad; depressed
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Turbulent
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Violently agitated, disturbed
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Obstructive
Obvious, highly noticeable
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Dispatch
Promptness
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Understate
To express less strongly than appropriate
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Indefatigable
Untiring, tireless
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Ungainly
Clumsy, awkward
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Culpable
Guilty; blameworthy
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Jocular
Joking, jolly
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Mercurial
Given to quick changes of mood
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Nefarious
Evil
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Neologism
A newly invented word
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Florid
Elaborately decorated; flowery
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Incorporate
To include
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Cantankerous
Quarrelsome, Ill-tempered
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Perceptive
Having keen understanding
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Contract
To make or become smaller
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Meek
Spineless, giving in easily
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Buttress
To support, reinforce
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Conciliate
To calm, comfort
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Hedonism
Single minded, pursuit of pleasure
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Illicit
Illegal
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Fertile
Able to produce or sustain growth
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Barren
Unable to produce or sustain life
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Trepidation
Fear, anxiety
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Preeminent
Superior to all others
