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Vocab Flashcards

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Adverb

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Word that addresses where (here), how (easily), how often and when (yesterday)

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Expropriation

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The act of taking privately owned property by a government to be used for the benefit of the public. In the US, the government has the right to take property through eminent domain.

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Ceterus paribus

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All other things being equal

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Preponderance

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Majority

“A preponderance of the evidence points to the guilt of the defendant.”

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Obsequious

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Servile, obedient

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Sycophant

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Fawning flatterer

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Ephemeral

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Short lasting

His fame was ephemeral - it dissipated quickly

The storm was ephemeral

I have an ephemeral memory

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Amenable

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Accommodating

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Laconic

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Short, succinct, concise

He is one of those hunky, laconic types in romantic comedies

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Modicum

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A small amount

“A modicum of success”

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Effusive

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Gushy

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Prescience

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Knowing something before it takes place; foresight

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Alacrity

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Eager, cheerful readiness

The boy jumped up and down with alacrity as he approached the candy store

I took the exam with alacrity

My alacrity for playing ball is much higher than writing a paper

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Auspicious

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Favorable

Despite an auspicious beginning

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Amenable

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Easily persuaded

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Demur

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To object or show reluctance

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Anathema

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Something or someone that is strongly disliked, cursed

The dictator was considered an anathema.

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Heresy

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The willful and persistent rejection of any article of faith

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Qualify

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To make less severe

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Enervate

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To sap energy from

The intense sun left him enervated

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Vindicate

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Clear of blame

Seven Tour de France wins cannot vindicate lance Armstrong

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Capricious

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Fickle

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Monolithic

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Unmovable

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Anachronism

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out of place

My mom is proud to be an anachronism when she walks around in a poodle skirt

The presence of metal tools in the Stone Age was an unexpected anachronism

The habit of introducing yourself to a neighbor with a welcome gift has become an anachronism

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Amalgam

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A mixture of multiple things

The bands music was an amalgam of hip hop, rap, etc.

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Amorphous

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Shapeless

The students plan to study was amorphous

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Impertinent

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Being disrespectful or unnecessarily forward

Cops questions were impertinent

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Belie

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Misrepresent

The smile on her face belies the pain…

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Parochial

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Narrow in scope

His culinary tastes were too parochial

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Equivocal

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Ambiguous or confusing

The findings of the study were equivocal

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Upbraid

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Scold

He had to upbraid the apparently drunk barber for giving him a bad haircut

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Ingenuous

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Naive, innocent

She had changed from an ingenuous girl from the suburbs to a jaded girl in the city

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Profligate

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To spend resources unwisely

The composer was so profligate as to line the walls with silk

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Harangue

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A long pompous speech, a tirade

We had to sit there and listen to Kevin’s grandfather’s interminable harangues against Obama

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Dour

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Gloomy, solemn

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Attenuate

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Thin, reduce the effect of something

Reading Shakespear in high school can attenuate people’s interest in reading

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Adroit

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Clever

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Ostensibly

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Apparently

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Cogent

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Logical

Cogent argument

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Myopic (my.opp.ic)

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Short sighted

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Magnanimous

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Kind, generous

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Esoteric

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Understood by a select few

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Enigma

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Person who is difficult to understand

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Ethereal

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Delicate

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45
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Convexity

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Measures bond price sensitivity to change in interest rates

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GDP

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Consumer + Investment + government expenditure + net export

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Fed funds rate

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Interest rate at which banks lend to each other

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Quid pro quo

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Reciprocal exchange

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Prodigal

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Wasteful spending

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Verb

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Word that conveys action, a state of being or an occurrence

She Enjoys food
She was cold
Runs
Ate
Washed
Studied
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Parsimonious

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Unwilling to spend money

I’m a fairly parsimonious person

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Tenuous

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Weak, insubstantial

A tenuous argument

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Nefarious

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Evil

The nefarious bully

Racism is a nefarious reality

The nefarious attacks on 9/11

One guy employed his nefarious scheme

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Ecumenical

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All-inclusive

Universal, wide, general application

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Ensconce

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To establish or settle firmly for a period of time

I found him in the library, ensconced in an armchair.

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Pyrrhic victory

Peer.ic victory

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A victory won with a devastating cost

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Iconoclast

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Person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions

Bill maher is an iconoclast

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Negligible

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Small, of no consequence

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Tenuous

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Weak or slight

Tenuous link or connection

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Fastidious

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Very attentive and concerned about accuracy and detail

He chose his words with fastidious care

Concerned about matters of cleanliness

Child seemed fastidious about getting his hands dirty

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Hyper vigilant

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Experience of being constantly tense and “on guard”. Hyper aware

They develop extreme hyper vigilance bc they never know what will happen next

PTSD

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Milieu

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Social environment, background

That was my milieu.

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Self flagellating

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The act of punishing or criticizing ones self

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Assail

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People assail you with advice when you’re pregnant or engaged

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Obviate

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Remove

The Venetian blinds obviates the need for curtains

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Abstracted

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Showing a lack of concentration

He seemed abstracted and unaware of his surroundings

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Virtuous

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Even the most virtuosic actor …

Person who has special knowledge or skill in a field

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Pernicious

Purr.nish.ous

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Gradually harmful

More money-based but just as pernicious

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Odious

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Deplorable, revolting

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Futile

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Incapable of producing a meaningful result

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Jingoism

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Extreme patriot

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Conflating

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Combining

Conflating two ideas

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Pejorative

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Derogatory, slanderous, expressing contempt

Don’t say it in a pejorative way

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Guileless

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Innocent, childlike, unsophisticated

Kevin has a guileless smile

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Tacitly

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Unspoken

Tacitly understood

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Seminal

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Influential

Seminal experience for me

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Superfluous

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Excessive, redundant

Should avoid asking the client for superfluous information

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Moxy

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He’s got moxy

Guts, balls

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Portend

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To be a warning or sign that something calamitous is about to happen

This does not portend well

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Impunity

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Freedom from punishment or liability

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Sanctimonious

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Self righteous, smug, hypocritical

What happened to the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?

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Prodigious

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Great, inordinate

He had such a prodigious gift

The stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel

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Effervescent

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Lively; sparkling, vivacious

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Pontificate

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Express an opinion in a preachy way

He was pontificating about art and history

86
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Ingenue

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Innocent and young

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Nihilistic

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Rejecting all religious and moral principals in the belief that life is meaningless

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Unscrupulous

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Not having moral principles; not honest or fair

Unscrupulous breeders are concerned only with profit

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Prodigious

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Great, inordinate

He had such a prodigious gift

The stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel

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Effervescent

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Lively; sparkling, vivacious

91
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Pontificate

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Express an opinion in a preachy way

He was pontificating about art and history

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Ingenue

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Innocent and young

93
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Nihilistic

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Rejecting all religious and moral principals in the belief that life is meaningless

94
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Unscrupulous

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Not having moral principles; not honest or fair

Unscrupulous breeders are concerned only with profit

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Apoplectic

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Overcome with anger

Mark was apoplectic wing rage

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Eschew

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Deliberately avoid

He appealed to the crowd to eschew violence

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Affectation

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Facade, front, show

Affectation of calm

He has something to tell, and he tells it clearly and without affectation

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Obdurate

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Obstinate, stubborn

Republicans have been too obdurate

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Predicate

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Dependent on

Predicated on the belief that..,

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Sanguine

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Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation

He is sanguine about the prospects for the global economy

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Legion

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Numerous, countless

Her fans are legion

There were legions of photographers and tv cameras

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Seminal

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Influential, formative, groundbreaking

103
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Gold standard

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Bloviate

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Talk at length, especially in an empty or inflated way

105
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Stockholm syndrome

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When captors start feeling empathy or developing positive feelings for their captors

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Macabre

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Macabre sense of humor
Macabre twist

Strange, frightening or unpleasant, usually having to do with violence

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Reticent

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Reserved, introvert, shy

I am fairly reticent about my personal life

Clarence Thomas was reticent in answering the senators questions

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Prosaic

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Lacking poetic prose, boring, ordinary, common

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Obstreperous

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Noisy and difficult to control

The boy is cocky and obstreperous

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Frenetic

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Frantic; frenzied

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Compendium

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A compendium of modest expectations

112
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Stockholm syndrome

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When captors start feeling empathy or developing positive feelings for their captors

113
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Macabre

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Macabre sense of humor
Macabre twist

Strange, frightening or unpleasant, usually having to do with violence

114
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Reticent

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Reserved, introvert, shy

I am fairly reticent about my personal life

Clarence Thomas was reticent in answering the senators questions

115
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Stockholm syndrome

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When captors start feeling empathy or developing positive feelings for their captors

116
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Macabre

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Macabre sense of humor
Macabre twist

Strange, frightening or unpleasant, usually having to do with violence

117
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Reticent

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Reserved, introvert, shy

I am fairly reticent about my personal life

Clarence Thomas was reticent in answering the senators questions

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Reticent

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Inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech

Ben is extremely reticent about his personal life

119
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Germane

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Relevant

Court disclosed all of the germane facts of the case

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Inscrutable

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Difficult to read or understand

Dan looked inscrutable, as per usual

121
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Reconnaissance

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Run a recon mission

Gain info by surveying

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De facto

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In reality

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Hellacious

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Exceptionally good or bad

Hellacious traffic
Hellacious hailstorm

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Propitious

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Favorable

Propitious weather, sign, etc

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Hifalutin

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Pretentious, grandiose, hoity toity

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Impervious

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Impenetrable

Impervious to pain, rain

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Tenacious

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Pedantic

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Overly concerned with minute details

Not to be pedantic about it, but

It may seem pedantic to harp on what seems like procedure

She gets caught up in pedantic details

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Impervious

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Not affected by; impenetrable

Impervious to criticism, damage, etc

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Ebullient

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Pulchritude

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Lacunae

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Gap, an unfilled space

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Pedestrian

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Ebullient

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Despotic

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Tyrannical

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Assiduously

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He courted her assiduously for months

The student worked assiduously on the project

Constantly, meticulous, careful, diligent, showing great care, attention, effort

137
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Obfuscate

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Confuse

The spelling changes will obfuscate the original origins

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Consummate

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Extremely skilled, perfect

We were the consummate professionals.

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Rapacious

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Aggressively greedy

Rapacious landlords

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Hegemony

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Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others

Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871

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Implacable

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Unable to placate

He had an implacable anger

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Askance

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With an attitude of suspicion or disapproval

He looked askance at the mythical tradition

143
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Bellicose

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Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament

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Impervious

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Unaffected by

He seemed impervious to the wind chill

145
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Gauche

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Socially awkward, lacking grace or unsophisticated

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Reposit

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Impertinence

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Insouciantly

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Pugnacious

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Eager or quick to argue, quarrel or fight

Combative, aggressive, antagonistic

150
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Rapacious

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Aggressively greedy it grasping

Donald’s Rapacious kids

I am a rapacious eater

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Demarcation

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Separation, distinction, division, border

The demarcation of the border

152
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Gauche

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Socially awkward, lacking grace or unsophisticated

153
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Reposit

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Impertinence

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Insouciantly

156
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Pugnacious

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Eager or quick to argue, quarrel or fight

Combative, aggressive, antagonistic

157
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Rapacious

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Aggressively greedy it grasping

Donald’s Rapacious kids

I am a rapacious eater

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Inscrutable

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Enigmatic, difficult to understand

159
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Moniker

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Name or nickname

Earned the grim moniker: “passing the trash”

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Ad hominem

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Vicious ad hominem attack

Personal attack versus attack on position they are taking

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Impertineness

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Austerity

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Strictness

Before dawn in the austerity of an ashram

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Overwrought

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Too overdone, ornate in its construction

Michelle Obama thought les Mis was overwrought

164
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Implacable

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Relentless, unstoppable

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Chicanery

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Elucidate

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Prowess

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Eurythmic

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Soothing, harmonious

Eurythmic facade

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Cad

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When a man behaved dishonorably, especially toward a woman

He’s a cad.

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Supine

They remained supine in the face of terrible wrong doing.

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Failing to act as a result of moral cowardice

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Convertible note

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Short term debt that converts into equity. The principal plus accrued interest converts into equity at later debt.

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