Top 20 Flashcards

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Ambivalent

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Having contradictory feelings

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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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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Corroborate

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To confirm, make stronger

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Enervate

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To weaken; drain energy from

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Ephemeral

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Short-lived

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Erudite

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Scholarly

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Esoteric

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Known to select a few

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Extant

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In existent (commonly referring to texts)

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Fastidious

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Nitpicky

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Inculpate

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To charge with wrong-doing; accuse

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Magnanimous

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Big-hearted; generous

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Mercurial

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  1. Changing one’s personality often and unpredictably

2. Animated, sprightly

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Pragmatic

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Practical

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Prolific

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Producing or creating abundantly

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Reticent

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Tightlipped, not prone to saying much, reluctant

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Sanguine

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Cheerful, optimistic

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Soporific

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Inducing sleep

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Ameliorate

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Take something bad and make it better

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Mitigate

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Take something and make it less bad.

Usually with consequences

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Equivocal

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Vague, open to interpretation

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Calumniate

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Slander someone

Defamation

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Propitious
Favorable start or beginning
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Choleric
Someone who’s always angry
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Inchoate
Not fully formed. Just starting off
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Doctrinaire
Someone who has to do everything by the book. Orthodox
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Laconic
Person speaking in very few words | Synonym : Reticent
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Zeal
Passion
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Cacophony
Lots of chaotic sounds
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Philanthropic
Charitable. Generous
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Malleable
Bendable. | A metal bar after being heated up
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Placate
Keep someone calm
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Vacillate
Indecisive
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Prevaricate
Speak in an evasive way | Avoid the question
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Laudable
Praise-worthy
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Fervid
Intensely enthusiastic or passionate
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Bolster
Add support
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Assuage
Calm someone down. | Help give relief
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Desiccate
Dry like a desert
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Misanthropic
Someone who doesn’t like humans | Opposite to philanthropist
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Obdurate
Stubborn
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Ingenuous
Innocent and unsuspecting
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Dissonant
Lacking harmony, unresolved
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Audacious
Full of audacity, bravery. | Dashing
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Garrulous
Talkative
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Anomaly
Outlier, doesn’t fit in
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Garrulousness
Talkative
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Paradox
Doesn’t fit. | Synonym to anomaly
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Cacophony
Chaotic noise
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Engenderment
Procreate, to cause to exist or to develop
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Deride
Mock
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Volatile
Likely to change rapidly and unpredictably Sometimes violent
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Lucid
Clear
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Opaque
Not clear
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Venerate
Pay your respects
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Precipitate
To start something off Eg. Kicking the tree to cause snow to fall which causes an avalanche