Vocab Flashcards by Morgan Evans | Brainscape

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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

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Ruled by a single person with absolute power

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Incessant and unremitting

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Uninterrupted or continual

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Invincible and impregnable

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Undefeatable

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Assiduous

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Industrious or diligent

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Deleterious

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Harmful

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Calamitous

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Catastrophic

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Sojourn or respite

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Temporary stay or rest

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Copse

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Group of trees

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Obdurate

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Stubborn

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Clemency

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Mercy

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Perfunctory

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Superficial

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Spurious and bogus

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False; not genuine

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Sanguine

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Confident

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Sanguinary

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Murderous or bloody

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Abscond

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Leave

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Perambulate

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Traverse on foot

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Prevaricate

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To lie

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Abscond

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Leave

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Ascetic and austere

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Simple, unadorned

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Surfeited

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oversatisfied or oversupplied

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

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Impugned

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Criticized

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Explicated or clarified

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To explain or make clear

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Doughty

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Valiant or fearless

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Pusillanimous

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Lacking courage

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Poltroon

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Cowardly

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Audacity

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Boldness

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Impassiveness

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Apathy

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Timorousness

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Timidity

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Parlous

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Perilous

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Anodyne

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Alleviating pain or inoffensive

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Pertinacious

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Resolute or stubborn

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Apocryphal and spurious

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False, inauthentic

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Droll

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Amusing

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Salacious and lecherous

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Lustful

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Risible

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Laughable