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Assuage

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v. To make easier or milder, relieve

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Approbation

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n. Praise

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Expostulate

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v. To attempt to dissuade someone

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Hackneyed

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adj. Used so often as to lack freshness and originality

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Hiatus

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n. A gap, opening, break

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Lurid

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adj. Causing shock, horror, or revulsion

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Petulant

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adj. Irritable

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Provincial

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adj. Narrow in mind or outlook, narrow-minded

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Umbrage

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n. Offense

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Unctuous

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adj. Trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness

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Ameliorate

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v. To improve

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Aplomb

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n. Poise, assurance, great self-confidence

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Bombastic

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adj. Pompous, pretentious

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Callow

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adj. Without experience, immature

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Epitome

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n. A typical or ideal example, quintessence

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Exhort

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v. To urge strongly, advise earnestly

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Ingratiate

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v. To make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others

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Inveigh

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v. To make a violent attack in words

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Lassitude

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n. Lack of energy

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Permeate

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v. To spread through, penetrate

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Abominate

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v. Loath, despise, detest

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Adventitious

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adj. Resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character, accidental, unplanned

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Enjoin

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v. To direct or order

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Expedite

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v. To make easy

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Inadvertent

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adj. Accidental

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Peculate

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v. To steal something that has been given into one’s trust

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Seditious

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adj. Resistant to lawful authority

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Tenuous

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adj. Poorly supported, insubstantial

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Vitriolic

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adj. Bitter, sarcastic

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Wheedle

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v. To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end

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Affable

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adj. Sociable, amicable

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Erudite

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adj. Scholarly

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Insular

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adj. Narrow or isolated in outlook or experience

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Irrevocable

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adj. Incapable of being changed

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Propensity

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n. A natural inclination

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Querulous

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adj. Peevish, complaining, petulant

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Remonstrate

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v. To reason against, expostulate

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Repudiate

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v. To deny the validity of, disavow

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Scurrilous

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adj. Coarsely abusive, vulgar or low

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Sedulous

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adj. Persistent, assiduous

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Axiomatic

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adj. Expressing a universally accepted principle

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Blazon

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v. To display, to publish

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Caveat

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n. A warning or caution

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Extricate

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v. To free from entanglements

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Filch

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v. To steal in a sneaky way and in petty amounts

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Flout

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v. To mock, treat with contempt

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Fractious

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adj. Tending to be troublesome, unruly, unpredictable

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Salutary

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adj. Beneficial, healthful

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Scourge

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n. A cause of affliction or suffering, bane

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Sepulchral

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adj. Funereal, gloomy or dismal

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Soporific

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adj. Tending to cause sleep

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Vapid

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adj. Dull, uninteresting

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Anomalous

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adj. Abnormal

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Aspersion

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n. Derogatory statement

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Brusque

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adj. Abrupt, blunt, tactless

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Cajole

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v. To persuade through flattery, wheedle

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Castigate

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v. To punish, to criticize severely, chastise

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Disabuse

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v. To free from error, set right

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Ennui

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n. Boredom

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Immutable

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adj. Constant

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Surreptitious

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adj. Stealthy, secret

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Vicarious

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adj. Experienced by one person in place of another

English 10H Midterm (1 decks)

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