Units 7-9 Synonyms Flashcards by Jenna B | Brainscape

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biting, rancorous, hostile, peevish

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acrimonious

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stolid, dull, slow, stupid

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bovine

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shock, amazement, bewilderment, dismay

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consternation

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overweight, heavy, obese, stout, portly

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corpulent

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disclaim, retract, abjure

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disavow

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unbiased, disinterested, cool, detached

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dispassionate

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strife, discord, contention

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dissension

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disperse, strew, diffuse, waste

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dissipate

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purge, censor, bowdlerize

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expurgate

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dare, provocation, trial, punishment

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gauntlet

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assumed, supposed, conditional

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hypothetical

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inferior, unworthy, sordid

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ignoble

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challenge, deny, dispute, query, question

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impugn

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excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate

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intemperate

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abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy

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odium

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betrayal, disloyalty, treason

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perfidy

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transfer, consign, demote, exile

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relegate

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nauseated, queasy, delicate, oversensitive, priggish

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squeamish

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secondary, servile, obsequious, useful

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subservient

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vulnerable, receptive, impressionable

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susceptible

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forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned

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austere

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humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable

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beneficent

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corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly

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cadaverous

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create, fashion, rustle up

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concoct

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crude, tasteless, oafish, obtuse

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crass

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cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate

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debase

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profane, defile, violate

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desecrate

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upset, rattle, ruffle, faze

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disconcert

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majestic, bombastic, highfalutin

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grandiose

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trivial, negligible, paltry

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inconsequential

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violation, transgression, offense

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infraction

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lessen, relieve, alleviate

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mitigate

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ravage, sack, loot; booty

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pillage

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prattle, blab, palaver

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prate

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precise, scrupulous

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punctilious

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formidable, august

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redoubtable

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chastise, upbraid, reproach

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reprove

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reimbursement, redress, restoration

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restitution

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sturdy, stout, intrepid, valiant; mainstay

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stalwart

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defenseless, unguarded

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vulnerable

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diminish, decrease, subside, let up

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abate

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adoration, idolization, hero-worship

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adulation

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malediction, imprecation, abomination

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anathema

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acute, sagacious, judicious, wily

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astute

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cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness

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avarice

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guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy

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cuplable

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stalling, slow, tardy, laggard

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dilatory

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glaring, flagrant, blatant

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egregious

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to talk out of both sides of one’s mouth, palter, hedge

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equivocate

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ephemeral, transient, transitory

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evanescent

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indecisive, vacilating, wavering

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irresolute

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hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, opaque, indeterminate

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nebulous

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neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice

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novice

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destitution, indignence

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penury

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ostentatious, inflated

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pretentious

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review, summarize, go over

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recapitulate

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revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate

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resuscitate

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unkempt, slatternly, lax

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slovenly

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assumption, presumption, hypothesis

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supposition

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lethargic, languid

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torpid