Vocab 151-180 Flashcards

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Rancorous

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Bitterness or resentment

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Rarefy

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To make rare or thin

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3
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Raze

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Completely destroy

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4
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Recalcitrant

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Uncooperative attitude toward authority

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5
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Recant

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No longer holds an opinion or belief

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6
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Reprobate

A

Unprincipled person

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7
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Ribald

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Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude way

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Quixotic

A

Unrealistic

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9
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Ruminate

A

Think deeply about something

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10
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Saccharine

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Excessively sweet or sentimental

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11
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Savant

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Learned person. Thinker

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12
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Stultify

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Loose enthusiasm and initiative

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13
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Taciturn

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Untalkative

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14
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Tantamount

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Equal to

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15
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Tenuous

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Very weak or slight

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16
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Trepidation

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Fear about something that may happen

17
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Turgid

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Swollen or congested

18
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Turpitude

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Wickedness

19
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Undulate

A

Move with a smooth wavelike motion

20
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Unwieldy

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Difficult to carry or move because of size

21
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Veracity

A

Accuracy

22
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Verbose

A

Wordy

23
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Viable

A

Capable of working successfully

24
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Virulent

A

Poisonous

25
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Vociferous

A

Crying out noisily

26
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Vouchsafe

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To give to someone as a promise or privilege

27
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Zenith

A

The highest point

28
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Supercilious

A

Thinking you are superior to others

29
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Surfeit

A

Excessive amount of something

30
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Surly

A

Bad tempered and unfriendly