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Vocab Flashcards

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Loquacious

A

Tending to talk a great deal; talkative
(adjective)

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Virtuoso

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A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit
(noun)

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Erudite

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Having or showing great knowledge or learning
(adjective)

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Pedant

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A person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning
(noun)

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Arduous

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Involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring
(adjective)

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Malevolent

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Having or showing a wish to do evil to others
(adjective)

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Commensurate

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Corresponding in size or degree; in proportion
(adjective)

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Reel

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  1. Wind a line onto a reel by turning the reel
  2. Lose one’s balance and stagger or lurch violently
    (verb)
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Ineradicable

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Unable to be destroyed or removed
(adjective)

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Proclivity

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A tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition toward a particular thing
(noun)

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Ardent

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Enthusiastic or passionate
(adjective)

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Optimal

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Best or most favorable; optimum
(adjective)

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Altruistic

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Showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish
(adjective)

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Dubious

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  1. Hesitating or doubting
  2. Not to be relied upon; suspect
    (adjective)
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Inexorable

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  1. Impossible to stop or prevent
    - (of a person) impossible to persuade by request or entreaty
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Fortitude

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Courage in pain or adversity
(noun)

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Entropy

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Lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder
(noun)

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Strenuous

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Requiring or using great exertion
(adjective)

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Indolence (indolent)

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Avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness
(noun)

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Nihilism (nihilistic)

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The rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless

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Dissipate

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  1. (With reference to a feeling or other intangible thing) disappear or cause to disappear
  2. Squander or fritter away (money, energy, or resources)
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Ameliorate

A

Make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better
(verb)

23
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Vociferous

A

(Especially if a person or speech) vehement or clamorous; passionate or outspoken

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Fervent

A

Having or displaying a passionate intensity
(adjective)

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Pernicious

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Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way
(adjective)

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Recalcitrant

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Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline
(adjective)

A person with an obstinately uncooperative attitude
(noun)

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Capitulate

A

Cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender
(verb)

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Hubris (hubristic)

A

Excessive pride or self-confidence
(noun)

29
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Brazen

A

Bold and without shame
(adjective)

Endure an embarrassing or difficult situation by behaving with apparent confidence and lack of shame
(verb)

30
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Axiomatic

A

Self-evident or unquestionable
(adjective)

31
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Iniquity

A

Immoral or grossly unfair behavior
(noun)

32
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Expedient

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(Of an action) convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral
(adjective)

A means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but considered improper or immoral
(noun)

33
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Mundane

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  1. Lacking interest or excitement; dull
  2. Of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one

(adjective)

34
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Presupposition

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A thing tacitly assumed beforehand at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action
(noun)

35
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Prosaic

A

Having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty
Commonplace; unromantic
(adjective)

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters
(adjective)

37
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Edifice

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  1. A building, especially a large, imposing one
  2. A complex system of beliefs

(noun)

38
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Proclivity

A

A tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition toward a particular thing
(noun)

39
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Surmise

A

Suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it
(verb)

A supposition that something may be true, even if there is no evidence to confirm it
(noun)

40
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Precipitously

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  1. Very steeply
  2. Hastily and without careful consideration

(adverb)

41
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Scrupulous

A

(Of a person or process) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details
- very concerned to avoid doing wrong
(adjective)

42
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Amalgamate

A

Combine or unite to form one organization or structure
(verb)

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Subsume

A

Include or absorb (something) in something else
(verb)

44
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Ambiguity

A

The quality of being open to more than one interpretation l; inexactness
(noun)

45
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Arbitrary

A

Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system
(adjective)

46
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Reciprocity

A

The practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, especially privileges granted by one country or organization to another
(noun)

47
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Ambivalent

A

Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
(adjective)

48
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Eminent

A

(Of a person) famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession
- used to emphasize the presence of a positive quality
(adjective)

49
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Ubiquitous

A

Present, appearing, or found everywhere
(adjective)

50
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Ominous

A

Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious
(adjective)

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