Vocab 11 Flashcards

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Promising; hopeful (noun: support, encouragement, or patronage)

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Auspicious

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To supply notice to; to bring someone up to date

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Apprise

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Fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal (intensely devoted; eager; enthusiastic)

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Zealot

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Sickly pale or faint;colorless

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Wan

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Abuse or belittle maliciously or unjustly; slander

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Vilify

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Waver; fluctuate; cannot decide course of action

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Vacillate

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Rashness; recklessness disregard of danger or unpleasant consequences; to take a bold action

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Temerity

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Idea or belief or principle; something held to be true, valid or essential by a group or organization

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Tenet

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Unimportant; insignificant

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Trifle

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Uplifting; filled with elation; grand; lofty; splendid

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Sublime

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Satisfy fully; to consume to exess

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Satiate

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Knowledge of just what to do

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Savior faire

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Unemotional

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Stolid

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List of plays, operas, roles,compositions, etc. that a company or a performer is prepared to perform

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Repertoire

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Abundantly fruitful; producing a great deal of something; producing many young or much fruit

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Prolific

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Favorable; fortunate; advantageous

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Propitious

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Dull and unimaginative; matter of fact; factual

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Prosaic

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The code prescribing formal etiquette and precedence for official ceremonies and dealings, as with diplomats and the military; an original draft or record of a negotiation or document

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Protocol

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Courage; spirit; a quality of character

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Mettle

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Exciting laughter; absurd to the point of being laughable; obviously implausible or impractical

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Ludicrous