Voabulary English Midterm Flashcards by lexi skibitski | Brainscape

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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

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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

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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

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Costume

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Harass

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To persecute

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Holocaust

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Large killing of people

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Impervious

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Not allowing fluid to pass through

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Impetus

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The force of energy with which a human body moved

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Inclement

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Bad

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Insidious

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Treacherous

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Intimation

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A hint

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Jeopardy

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Danger of loss

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Meticulous

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Showing great detail

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Muse

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Someone who gives you thought

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Negligible

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Insignificant

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Nostalgia

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Pleasure/sadness of remembering something

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Opulent

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Luxuriously

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Perpetuated

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Prolong existence of

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Pliable

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Bending easily

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Punitive

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Inflicting or intended as punishment

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Quintessence

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Purest

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Redress

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Remedy, to make right

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Reiterate

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To say again

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Retrogress

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Back to an earlier state

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Scrutinize

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Examine closely

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Stolid

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Solemn

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Tentative

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For now

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Tepid

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Lukewarm

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Unkempt

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Lacking elegance

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Urbane

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Sophisticated

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Verbatim

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Word for word