Text Completion Flashcards by Desmond Fambrini | Brainscape

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Tempestuous

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Showing violent behavior

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Petulant

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Easily annoyed

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Placid

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Not easily irritated

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Mercurial

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Subject to sudden unpredictable change

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Piliant

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Able to adjust

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Intrinsic

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Belonging to something by nature

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a short period of time

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Frenetic

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Excessively agitated

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Affords

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Gives access to

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Arrogate

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To take or claim

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Eschew

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To avoid on purpose

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Inter

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To place in a grave

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Imbue

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Inspire, to fill, to soak

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Floundering

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To struggle helplessly

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Apogee

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A final climatic stage

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Epiphany

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A realization

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Capitulate

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Give in to demands

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Impugn

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To dispute the truth, to attack as wrong

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Acrimony

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Bitter feelings

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Cacophony

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Loud, harsh, confusing sounds

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Sinecure

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A position requiring little to no work

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Gainsaid

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Contradicted or denied

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Dilapidated

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Fallen into decay and ruin

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Diminutive

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Very small

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Ostentatious

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Intended to attract notice

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Orator

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A person who gives a speech

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Miscreant

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A person without moral scruples

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Scruples

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Feelings of doubt regards to morality

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Interloper

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Someone who intrudes on the privacy of others, someone who becomes involved in a situation they are not wanted

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Duress

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Compulsory force or threat

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Ebullience

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Overflow with eager enjoyment

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Ignoble

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Not noble

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Precarious

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Not secure

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Facetious

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Cleverly amusing in tone