Units 7-9 Synonyms Flashcards

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biting, rancorous, hostile, peevish

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acrimonious

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2
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stolid, dull, slow, stupid

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bovine

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3
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shock, amazement, bewilderment, dismay

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consternation

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4
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overweight, heavy, obese, stout, portly

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corpulent

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5
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disclaim, retract, abjure

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disavow

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6
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unbiased, disinterested, cool, detached

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dispassionate

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7
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strife, discord, contention

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dissension

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8
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disperse, strew, diffuse, waste

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dissipate

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9
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purge, censor, bowdlerize

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expurgate

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10
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dare, provocation, trial, punishment

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gauntlet

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11
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assumed, supposed, conditional

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hypothetical

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12
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inferior, unworthy, sordid

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ignoble

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13
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challenge, deny, dispute, query, question

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impugn

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14
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excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate

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intemperate

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15
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abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy

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odium

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16
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betrayal, disloyalty, treason

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perfidy

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17
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transfer, consign, demote, exile

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relegate

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18
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nauseated, queasy, delicate, oversensitive, priggish

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squeamish

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19
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secondary, servile, obsequious, useful

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subservient

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20
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vulnerable, receptive, impressionable

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susceptible

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21
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forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned

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austere

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22
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humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable

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beneficent

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23
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corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly

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cadaverous

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24
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create, fashion, rustle up

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concoct

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crude, tasteless, oafish, obtuse
crass
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cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate
debase
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profane, defile, violate
desecrate
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upset, rattle, ruffle, faze
disconcert
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majestic, bombastic, highfalutin
grandiose
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trivial, negligible, paltry
inconsequential
31
violation, transgression, offense
infraction
32
lessen, relieve, alleviate
mitigate
33
ravage, sack, loot; booty
pillage
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prattle, blab, palaver
prate
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precise, scrupulous
punctilious
36
formidable, august
redoubtable
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chastise, upbraid, reproach
reprove
38
reimbursement, redress, restoration
restitution
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sturdy, stout, intrepid, valiant; mainstay
stalwart
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defenseless, unguarded
vulnerable
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diminish, decrease, subside, let up
abate
42
adoration, idolization, hero-worship
adulation
43
malediction, imprecation, abomination
anathema
44
acute, sagacious, judicious, wily
astute
45
cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness
avarice
46
guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy
cuplable
47
stalling, slow, tardy, laggard
dilatory
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glaring, flagrant, blatant
egregious
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to talk out of both sides of one's mouth, palter, hedge
equivocate
50
ephemeral, transient, transitory
evanescent
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indecisive, vacilating, wavering
irresolute
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hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, opaque, indeterminate
nebulous
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neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice
novice
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destitution, indignence
penury
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ostentatious, inflated
pretentious
56
review, summarize, go over
recapitulate
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revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate
resuscitate
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unkempt, slatternly, lax
slovenly
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assumption, presumption, hypothesis
supposition
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lethargic, languid
torpid