Text Completion Flashcards

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insurmountable

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too great to be overcome

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inane

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silly; stupid

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trivial

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of little value or importance

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ineffable

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too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words

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obscurantist

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a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge

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arcane

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understood by few; mysterious or secret

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canonical

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authorized; recognized; accepted

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judicious

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having, showing, or done with good judgment

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clairvoyants

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having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision

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specious

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  1. superficially plausible, but actually wrong

2. misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive

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venial

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forgivable; pardonable

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pervasive

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spreading widely throughout an area or group of people

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hedge

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  1. something that provides protection or defense

2. a calculatedly noncommittal or evasive statement

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shoulder

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to deal with or accept (something) as your responsibility or duty

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mitigate

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  1. make less severe, serious, or painful

2. lessen the gravity of (an offense or mistake)

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unexceptionable

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not open to objection

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jaundice

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bitterness, resentment, or envy

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inexorably

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not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped

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paradigm

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  1. a typical example or pattern of something; a model

2. a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles

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axiom

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a statement of proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true

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wary

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feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems

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precipitous

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  1. dangerously high or steep

2. done suddenly and without careful consideration

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overt

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  1. done or shown openly

2. plainly or readily apparent, not secret or hidden

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certitude

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something that someone firmly believes is true

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dogma
principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true
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extraneous
irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with
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inherent
existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute
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avert
1. turn away (one's eyes or thoughts) | 2. prevent or ward off (an undesirable occurrence)