Vocab 2-3 Flashcards

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Banal

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Adj
Boring dull unoriginal repeated so often it is boring

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Decorous

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Adj
Anything proper dignified and in good taste good manners and propriety

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Embroil

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V
To force into some kind of situation or action to drag somebody into a problem

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Edification

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N
To improve you morally spiritually or educationally

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Esoteric

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Adj
Understood by only those in an inner circle not understood by uneducated or commoners

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Garish

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Adj
bright showy and in bad taste tastelessly showy

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Hackneyed

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Adj
Repeated so often it loses meaning overfamiliar and overused

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Obsequious

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Adj
Overly obedient and submissive staying in good graces by flattery (underserved)

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Prefabricate

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V
To lie or mislead to go back and forth and deliberately mislead or confused

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Strident

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Adj
Gratingly loud and obnoxious or
Adj
Being sharp insistent on being heard

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