Voabulary English Midterm Flashcards
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Adulterate
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Render something poorer in quality
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Adroit
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Skilled
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Alienate
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To leave
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Ambidextrous
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Skilled with both hands
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Amicable
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Having a spirit of friendliness
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Augment
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Increase
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Averse
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Having a strong dislike to something
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Belligerent
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Hostile
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Benevolent
A
Charitable
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Craven
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Cowardly
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Culinary
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Skilled in cooking
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Cursory
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Hasty
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Delete
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To get rid of
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Deploy
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To leave
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Dour
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Relentlessly severe, stern
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Duplicity
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More than one
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Exhilarate
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Make very happy
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Extol
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Praise enthusiastically
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Fallow
A
Unsown
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Feasible
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Easy
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Fortitude
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Courage in pain/adversity
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Gape
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To stare at open mouthed
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Gibe
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A taunt
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Grimace
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Facial expression full of disgust
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Guise
Costume
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Harass
To persecute
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Holocaust
Large killing of people
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Impervious
Not allowing fluid to pass through
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Impetus
The force of energy with which a human body moved
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Inclement
Bad
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Insidious
Treacherous
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Intimation
A hint
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Jeopardy
Danger of loss
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Meticulous
Showing great detail
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Muse
Someone who gives you thought
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Negligible
Insignificant
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Nostalgia
Pleasure/sadness of remembering something
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Opulent
Luxuriously
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Perpetuated
Prolong existence of
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Pliable
Bending easily
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Punitive
Inflicting or intended as punishment
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Quintessence
Purest
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Redress
Remedy, to make right
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Reiterate
To say again
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Retrogress
Back to an earlier state
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Scrutinize
Examine closely
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Stolid
Solemn
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Tentative
For now
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Tepid
Lukewarm
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Unkempt
Lacking elegance
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Urbane
Sophisticated
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