Top 20 Flashcards

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Ambivalent

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Having contradictory feelings

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2
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Auspicious

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Favorable

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3
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Belligerent

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Inclined to fight

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Capricious

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Unpredictable, whimsical

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5
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Corroborate

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To confirm, make stronger

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6
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Enervate

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To weaken; drain energy from

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7
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Ephemeral

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Short-lived

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8
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Erudite

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Scholarly

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9
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Esoteric

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Known to select a few

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10
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Extant

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In existent (commonly referring to texts)

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11
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Fastidious

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Nitpicky

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12
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Inculpate

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To charge with wrong-doing; accuse

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13
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Loquacious

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Talkative

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14
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Magnanimous

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Big-hearted; generous

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15
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Mercurial

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  1. Changing one’s personality often and unpredictably

2. Animated, sprightly

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16
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Pragmatic

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Practical

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17
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Prolific

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Producing or creating abundantly

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18
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Reticent

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Tightlipped, not prone to saying much, reluctant

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19
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Sanguine

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Cheerful, optimistic

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20
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Soporific

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Inducing sleep

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21
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Ameliorate

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Take something bad and make it better

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22
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Mitigate

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Take something and make it less bad.

Usually with consequences

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23
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Equivocal

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Vague, open to interpretation

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24
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Calumniate

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Slander someone

Defamation

25
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Propitious

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Favorable start or beginning

26
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Choleric

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Someone who’s always angry

27
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Inchoate

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Not fully formed. Just starting off

28
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Doctrinaire

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Someone who has to do everything by the book. Orthodox

29
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Laconic

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Person speaking in very few words

Synonym : Reticent

30
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Zeal

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Passion

31
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Cacophony

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Lots of chaotic sounds

32
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Philanthropic

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Charitable. Generous

33
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Malleable

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Bendable.

A metal bar after being heated up

34
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Placate

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Keep someone calm

35
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Vacillate

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Indecisive

36
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Prevaricate

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Speak in an evasive way

Avoid the question

37
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Laudable

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Praise-worthy

38
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Fervid

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Intensely enthusiastic or passionate

39
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Bolster

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Add support

40
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Assuage

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Calm someone down.

Help give relief

41
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Desiccate

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Dry like a desert

42
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Misanthropic

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Someone who doesn’t like humans

Opposite to philanthropist

43
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Obdurate

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Stubborn

44
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Ingenuous

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Innocent and unsuspecting

45
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Dissonant

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Lacking harmony, unresolved

46
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Audacious

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Full of audacity, bravery.

Dashing

47
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Garrulous

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Talkative

48
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Anomaly

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Outlier, doesn’t fit in

49
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Garrulousness

A

Talkative

50
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Paradox

A

Doesn’t fit.

Synonym to anomaly

51
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Cacophony

A

Chaotic noise

52
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Engenderment

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Procreate, to cause to exist or to develop

53
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Deride

A

Mock

54
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Volatile

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Likely to change rapidly and unpredictably

Sometimes violent

55
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Lucid

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Clear

56
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Opaque

A

Not clear

57
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Venerate

A

Pay your respects

58
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Precipitate

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To start something off

Eg. Kicking the tree to cause snow to fall which causes an avalanche