Vocab 2 Flashcards

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Conjugal

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Pertaining to marriage

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Confluence

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A coming together

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Contentious

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Argumentative causing a controversy or disagreement

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Conundrum

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A difficult problem

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Copious

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Abundant plentiful

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Corpulence

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Extreme fatness

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Coterie

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A circle of acquaintances

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Credulous

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Too trusting gullible

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Cryptic

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Having a hidden meaning

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Curmudgeon

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Cranky person

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Dearth

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A lack

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Demagogue

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A leader who apples to the fears emotions and prejudices of the populace to gain power

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Desecrate

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To commit sacrilege upon treat irreverently to pollute

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Diatribe

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A bitter and prolonged verbal attack

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Diffidence

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Shyness

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Dilatory

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Tending to delay or procrastinate

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Disaffected

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Having lost faith or loyalty discontent

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Discursive

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Tending to depart form the main point or cover a wide range of subjects

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Dissemble

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To present a false appearance to divide ones real intentions or character

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Disparage

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To speak in a disrespectful way to belittle

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Dispassionate

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Calm free from emotion

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Dissonant

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Not in harmony disagreeing at odds

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Dissuade

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To persuade not to do something

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Divination

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For telling the future by means of magic

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Dotard

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Foolish old man

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Duplicity

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Treachery deceitfulness

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Egregious

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Extremely bad

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Elegiac

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Expressing sorrow

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Elucidate

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To make clear

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Emanate

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To come forth