Unit 5 Synonyms Flashcards

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Gloomy, sullen, morbid, doleful

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Morose

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Hazy, cloudy, foggy, murky, dull, obtuse

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Opaque

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To ease, smoothe the way, simplify

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Facilitate

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A reproof, rebuke, to reprove, reproach

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Reprimand

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Still, motionless, foul, fetid, polluted

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Stagnant

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Captivity, bondage, thralldom, slavery

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Servitude

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Cursory, perfunctory, sloppy, slipshod

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Slapdash

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A partner in crime, confederate

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Accomplice

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To yield, give way, submit, to die, expire

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Succumb

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Aggressive, truculent, an activist

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Militant

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Capricious, high-handed, autocratic

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Arbitrary

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A stimulus, spur, an instigator

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Catalyst

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Supreme, foremost, primary, dominant

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Paramount

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To obliterate, decimate, demolish

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Annihilate

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Dormant, inactive, undeveloped, hidden

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Latent

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To refute, disprove, confute, shoot holes in

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Rebut

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Unruly, intractable, incurable, inveterate

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Incorrigible

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Imprudent, saucy, bold, shameless

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Brazen

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An emigration, flight, escape, hegira

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Exodus

20
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To chatter, babble, to purl, twaddle, gibberish

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Prattle