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Units 10 & 11 Flashcards

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Adjudicate

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Arbitrate, referee, mediate,

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Acumen

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Perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity

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Anachronism

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Chronological error

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Apocryphal

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Fictitious, mythical, spurious, bogus,

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Disparity

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Dissimilarity, unlikeness, discrepancy, incongruity

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Dissimulate

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Dissemble, pretend, misrepresent

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Empirical

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Verifiable, observed, experiential, pragmatic

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Flamboyant

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Ornate, showy, ostentatious, florid

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Fulsome

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Offensively insincere or excessive, disgusting, sickening, inordinate, repulsive

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Immolate

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Sacrifice, slay, kill

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Imperceptible

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Extremely slight, minimal, undetectable

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Lackey

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Servile follower, footman, toady, flunky, hanger-on

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Liaison

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Intermediary, channel

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Monolithic

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Massiveness, solidness, total uniformity, undifferentiated, massive, dense

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Mot just

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Right word

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Nihilism

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Rejection, extreme radicalism

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Patrician

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Aristocrat, peer, noble, highborn

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Propitiate

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Conciliate, satisfy, appease, placate, mollify

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Sic

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Thus so, intentionally written

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Sublimate

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Rechannel, elevate

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apostate

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Renegade, defector, turncoat

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Bravado

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Flash or assumed courage, swagger, bluster, braggadocio

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Consensus

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Unanimity, concord, accord, harmony

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Constrict

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Narrow, contract, curb, restrain

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Dichotomy

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Schism, division, bifurcation

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Effusive

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Highly demonstrative, unrestrained, gushy, lavish

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Euphoria

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Elation, bliss, ecstasy, rapture

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Gothic

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Gloomy, grotesque, sinister, eerie

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Impasse

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Dead end, deadlock, standoff, stalemate

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Lugubrious

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Sad, mournful, gloomy, doleful, melancholy, dismal, dolorous

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Metamorphosis

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A complete transformation, change, makeover

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Mystique

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Aura or attitude of mystery or veneration, charisma

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Non sequitur

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It does not follow, illogical reference, unsound conclusion

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Parlous

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Perilous, hazardous, risky, dangerous

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Punctilio

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Fine point, nicety

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Quagmire

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Soft, soggy, mud or slush, fen, marsh, bog, morass

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Quixotic

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Idealistic, fanciful, impractical, utopian

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Raconteur

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Storyteller, anecdotist

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Sine qua non

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Necessity, requisite, desideratum

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Vendetta

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Blood feud, rivalry

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