Vocab Flashcards
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Abscond
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To depart clandestinely
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Aclarity
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Eager and enthusiastic willingness
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inured
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Accustomed to accepting something undersirable
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Perfidy
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Intentional breach of faith; treachery
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Prevaricate
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To deliberately avoid the truth/to mislead
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Recant
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To retract
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Solicitious
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Concerned and attentive
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Stimye
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To block; To thwart
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Thwart
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To block
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Ameliorate
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To make better or more tolerable
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Bucolic
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Rural and pastoral
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Chary
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Wary; cautious
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Cogent
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Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
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Impecunious
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Lacking funds; without money
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Inveigle
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To obtain by deception
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Penurious
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Ungenerous; penny penching
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Obdurate
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Unyielding; hardhearted
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Diatribe
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A harsh enunciation
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Obsequious
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Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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Occlude
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To obstruct or to block
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Pine
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To languish; to lose vigor
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Pithy
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Precise and brief
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Querulous
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Prone to complaining or grumbling
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Specious
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Seeming true but actually fallacious; plausible but false
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Supurious
Lacking authenticity or validity; false
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Glib
Marked by esse or informality; nonchalant
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Obfuscate
To deliberately obscure; to make confusing
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Profligate
Excessively wasteful
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Terse
Brief and concise in wording
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Trenchant
Sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating
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Vexation
Annoyance; irritation
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Broach
To bring up
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Grouse
To complain or grumble
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Quail
To lose courage; to turn frightened
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Sap
To enervate or weaken the vitality of
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Scurvy
Despicable
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Tender
To proffer or to offer
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Adumbrate
To Foreshadow or intimate
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Anodyne
Soothing; something that assuages or allays pain
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Cavil
To find ult without good reason
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Descry
To catch sight of
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Desuetude
Disuse
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Desultory
Random, aimless
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Eschew
To avoid habitually ok moral or practical grounds
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Fractious
Quarrelsome; rebellious; unruly
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Gainsay
To deny, to contradict, to oppose
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Insouciant
Unconcerned; carefree
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Inveterate
Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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Jejune
Vapid, uninteresting
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Meretricious
Attracting by false show
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Obstreperous
Noisily and stubbornly defiant
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Panegyric
Eulogy, formal praise
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Parsimonous
Cheap, miserly
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Plangent
Pounding; thunderous
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Prolix
Verbosity
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Propiate
Calm down, to appease, to conciliate
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Puissance
Power, strength
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Salacious
Lustful, lascivious
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Sanguine
Cheerful, confident, optimistic
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Stentorian
Extremely loud and poweful
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Tyro
Novice,
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Voluble
Verbal, fluent, having easy use of spoken language
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Peruse
To examine with great care
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Remonstrate
To object, to protest
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Peroration
The concluding part of a speech; flowery rethorical speech
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Disparate
Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
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Effrontery
Extreme boldness
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Extemporaneous
Improvised; done without preparation
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Fulminate
Loudly attack or denounce
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Ingenuous
Artless; Frank and candid
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Obtuse
Lacking sharpness of intellect
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Obviate
To anticipate and make unnecessary
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Perfunctory
Done without care or interest
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Cursory
Done without care or interest
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Precipitate (adj)
Acting impulsively
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Prescience
Foreknowledge of event
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Qualms
Reservations
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Reticent
Quiet reserved
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Squander
To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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Truculent
Eager to fight; fierce and cruel
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Accolade
An expression of praise
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Burgeon
To grow rapidly or flourish
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Contentious
Argumentative
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Facetious
Playful; humorous
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Harangue
To deliver a forceful or angry speech
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Morose
Sad; sullen; melancholy
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Quiescence
Stillness; motionless
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Squalid
Very dirty or filthy
Immoral
Miserable
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Torpid
Lethargic; sluggish
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Grandiloquence
Pompous speech or expression
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Impassive
Revealing no emotion
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Infelicitous
Unfortunate; inappropriate
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Mendacity
The condition of being untruthful
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Platitude
A superficial remark
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Profuse
Given or coming forth abundantly
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Transient
Fleeting: passing quickly; brief
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Derision
Scorn; ridicule
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Disparate
To slight or belittle
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Intractable
Not easily managed or directed
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Laconic
Using few words; terse
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Phlegmatic
Calm; unemotional
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Presumptuous
Taking liberties
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Probity
Integrity; uprightness
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Prosaic
Dull; lacking in spirit or imagination
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Quixotic
Foolishly impractical
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Sedulous
Diligent; hard working
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Untenable
Not viable; indefensible
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Vituperate
To use harsh condemnatory language
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Alloy
To debase by mixing with something inferior
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Brook
To tolerate
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Exact *verb*
To demand; to call for
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Lumber *verb*
To move heavily
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Mince
To tiptoe: to speak too carefully
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Nice
Fastidious, extremely precise
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Qualify
To limit
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Steep
To completely soak
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Table
To remove from consideration
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Wag
Wit, joker
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Apostate
One who abandons long held religious or political convictions
