Vocab 1-2 Flashcards by Deleted Deleted | Brainscape

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Likely to do something

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Prone

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Without success

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In vain

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Absurd

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Preposterous

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Conditional

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Contingent

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Restricted to ideas ; unproven or abstract

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Theoretical

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Perhaps

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Perchance

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Impossible to grasp fully

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Inconceivable

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A possibility

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Eventually

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An inclination / tendency

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Proclivity

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Difficult to believe

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Implausible

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A critical or explantation note

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Annotation

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A name title or designation

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Appellation

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A person whose name is or is thought to be

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Eponym

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The study of nature / languages

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Linguistic

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Ridiculous misuse of words

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Malapropism

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New word or expression

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Neologism

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Particular manner of speaking

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Parlance

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Regional dialect

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Patois

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Polyglot

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Using serval languages

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Related to the language of the common people

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Vulgar