Vocab Flashcards by Morgan Evans

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Jejune

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Childish or immature

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Doughty

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Courageous or valiant

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Idiomatic

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Language peculiar to a particular group; similar to colloquial

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Capricious and mercurial

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Quickly changing

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Lascivious

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Lustful

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Picayune

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Insignificant or commonplace

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Presage

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Foreshadow

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Propitiate

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Appease

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Portents

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Omens

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Perquisites

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Perks or gratuities

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Remonstrances and expostulations

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Protestations

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Hubris

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Arrogance

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Acquiescence and accession

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Acceptance or agreement

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Dissipation

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Excessive indulgence

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Turgid

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Swollen or pompous

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Multianimous

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Multifaceted

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Calamitous

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Disastrous

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Adjured

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Begged or commanded

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Presentiment

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A feeling of anticipation over a future event

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Licentious

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Lewd or immoral

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Headlong

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Unwise

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Ignoble

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Dishonorable

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Undemonstrative

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Quiet

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Unctuous

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Insincere or groveling

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Autocratic and despotic

Ruled by a single person with absolute power

Incessant and unremitting

Uninterrupted or continual

Invincible and impregnable

Undefeatable

Assiduous

Industrious or diligent

Deleterious

Harmful

Calamitous

Catastrophic

Sojourn or respite

Temporary stay or rest

Copse

Group of trees

Obdurate

Stubborn

Clemency

Mercy

Perfunctory

Superficial

Spurious and bogus

False; not genuine

Sanguine

Confident

Sanguinary

Murderous or bloody

Abscond

Leave

Perambulate

Traverse on foot

Prevaricate

To lie

Abscond

Leave

Ascetic and austere

Simple, unadorned

Surfeited

oversatisfied or oversupplied

Opprobrium

Public disgrace

Impugned

Criticized

Explicated or clarified

To explain or make clear

Doughty

Valiant or fearless

Pusillanimous

Lacking courage

Poltroon

Cowardly

Audacity

Boldness

Impassiveness

Apathy

Timorousness

Timidity

Parlous

Perilous

Anodyne

Alleviating pain or inoffensive

Pertinacious

Resolute or stubborn

Apocryphal and spurious

False, inauthentic

Droll

Amusing

Salacious and lecherous

Lustful

Risible

Laughable