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
A mixture of multiple things
The bands music was an amalgam of hip hop, rap, etc.
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Amorphous
Shapeless
The students plan to study was amorphous
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Impertinent
Being disrespectful or unnecessarily forward
Cops questions were impertinent
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Belie
Misrepresent
The smile on her face belies the pain...
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Parochial
Narrow in scope
His culinary tastes were too parochial
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Equivocal
Ambiguous or confusing
The findings of the study were equivocal
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Upbraid
Scold
He had to upbraid the apparently drunk barber for giving him a bad haircut
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Ingenuous
Naive, innocent
She had changed from an ingenuous girl from the suburbs to a jaded girl in the city
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Profligate
To spend resources unwisely
The composer was so profligate as to line the walls with silk
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Harangue
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
Gloomy, solemn
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Attenuate
Thin, reduce the effect of something
Reading Shakespear in high school can attenuate people's interest in reading
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Adroit
Clever
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Ostensibly
Apparently
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Cogent
Logical
Cogent argument
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Myopic (my.opp.ic)
Short sighted
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Magnanimous
Kind, generous
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Esoteric
Understood by a select few
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Enigma
Person who is difficult to understand
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Ethereal
Delicate
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Convexity
Measures bond price sensitivity to change in interest rates
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GDP
Consumer + Investment + government expenditure + net export
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Fed funds rate
Interest rate at which banks lend to each other
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Quid pro quo
Reciprocal exchange
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Prodigal
Wasteful spending
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Verb
Word that conveys action, a state of being or an occurrence
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She Enjoys food
She was cold
Runs
Ate
Washed
Studied
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Parsimonious
Unwilling to spend money
I'm a fairly parsimonious person
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Tenuous
Weak, insubstantial
A tenuous argument
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Nefarious
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
All-inclusive
Universal, wide, general application
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Ensconce
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
A victory won with a devastating cost
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Iconoclast
Person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
Bill maher is an iconoclast
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Negligible
Small, of no consequence
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Tenuous
Weak or slight
Tenuous link or connection
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Fastidious
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
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
Social environment, background
That was my milieu.
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Self flagellating
The act of punishing or criticizing ones self
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Assail
People assail you with advice when you're pregnant or engaged
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Obviate
Remove
The Venetian blinds obviates the need for curtains
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Abstracted
Showing a lack of concentration
He seemed abstracted and unaware of his surroundings
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Virtuous
Even the most virtuosic actor ...
Person who has special knowledge or skill in a field
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Pernicious
Purr.nish.ous
Gradually harmful
More money-based but just as pernicious
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Odious
Deplorable, revolting
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Futile
Incapable of producing a meaningful result
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Jingoism
Extreme patriot
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Conflating
Combining
Conflating two ideas
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Pejorative
Derogatory, slanderous, expressing contempt
Don't say it in a pejorative way
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Guileless
Innocent, childlike, unsophisticated
Kevin has a guileless smile
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Tacitly
Unspoken
Tacitly understood
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Seminal
Influential
Seminal experience for me
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Superfluous
Excessive, redundant
Should avoid asking the client for superfluous information
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Moxy
He's got moxy
Guts, balls
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Portend
To be a warning or sign that something calamitous is about to happen
This does not portend well
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Impunity
Freedom from punishment or liability
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Sanctimonious
Self righteous, smug, hypocritical
| What happened to the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?
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Prodigious
Great, inordinate
He had such a prodigious gift
The stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel
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Effervescent
Lively; sparkling, vivacious
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Pontificate
Express an opinion in a preachy way
He was pontificating about art and history
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Ingenue
Innocent and young
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Nihilistic
Rejecting all religious and moral principals in the belief that life is meaningless
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Unscrupulous
Not having moral principles; not honest or fair
Unscrupulous breeders are concerned only with profit
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Prodigious
Great, inordinate
He had such a prodigious gift
The stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel
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Effervescent
Lively; sparkling, vivacious
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Pontificate
Express an opinion in a preachy way
He was pontificating about art and history
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Ingenue
Innocent and young
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Nihilistic
Rejecting all religious and moral principals in the belief that life is meaningless
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Unscrupulous
Not having moral principles; not honest or fair
Unscrupulous breeders are concerned only with profit
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Apoplectic
Overcome with anger
Mark was apoplectic wing rage
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Eschew
Deliberately avoid
He appealed to the crowd to eschew violence
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Affectation
Facade, front, show
Affectation of calm
He has something to tell, and he tells it clearly and without affectation
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Obdurate
Obstinate, stubborn
Republicans have been too obdurate
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Predicate
Dependent on
Predicated on the belief that..,
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Sanguine
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
Numerous, countless
Her fans are legion
There were legions of photographers and tv cameras
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Seminal
Influential, formative, groundbreaking
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Gold standard
NYT
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Bloviate
Talk at length, especially in an empty or inflated way
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Stockholm syndrome
When captors start feeling empathy or developing positive feelings for their captors
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Macabre
Macabre sense of humor
Macabre twist
Strange, frightening or unpleasant, usually having to do with violence
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Reticent
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
Lacking poetic prose, boring, ordinary, common
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Obstreperous
Noisy and difficult to control
The boy is cocky and obstreperous
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Frenetic
Frantic; frenzied
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Compendium
A compendium of modest expectations
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Stockholm syndrome
When captors start feeling empathy or developing positive feelings for their captors
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Macabre
Macabre sense of humor
Macabre twist
Strange, frightening or unpleasant, usually having to do with violence
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Reticent
Reserved, introvert, shy
I am fairly reticent about my personal life
Clarence Thomas was reticent in answering the senators questions
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Stockholm syndrome
When captors start feeling empathy or developing positive feelings for their captors
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Macabre
Macabre sense of humor
Macabre twist
Strange, frightening or unpleasant, usually having to do with violence
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Reticent
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
Inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech
Ben is extremely reticent about his personal life
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Germane
Relevant
Court disclosed all of the germane facts of the case
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Inscrutable
Difficult to read or understand
Dan looked inscrutable, as per usual
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Reconnaissance
Run a recon mission
| Gain info by surveying
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De facto
In reality
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Hellacious
Exceptionally good or bad
Hellacious traffic
Hellacious hailstorm
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Propitious
Favorable
Propitious weather, sign, etc
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Hifalutin
Pretentious, grandiose, hoity toity
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Impervious
Impenetrable
Impervious to pain, rain
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Tenacious
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Pedantic
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
Not affected by; impenetrable
Impervious to criticism, damage, etc
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Ebullient
Cheerful
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Pulchritude
Beauty
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Lacunae
Gap, an unfilled space
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Pedestrian
Dull
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Ebullient
Cheerful
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Despotic
Tyrannical
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Assiduously
He courted her assiduously for months
The student worked assiduously on the project
Constantly, meticulous, careful, diligent, showing great care, attention, effort
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Obfuscate
Confuse
The spelling changes will obfuscate the original origins
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Consummate
Extremely skilled, perfect
We were the consummate professionals.
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Rapacious
Aggressively greedy
Rapacious landlords
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Hegemony
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
Unable to placate
He had an implacable anger
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Askance
With an attitude of suspicion or disapproval
He looked askance at the mythical tradition
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Bellicose
Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament
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Impervious
Unaffected by
He seemed impervious to the wind chill
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Gauche
Socially awkward, lacking grace or unsophisticated
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Reposit
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Impertinence
G
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Insouciantly
G
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Pugnacious
Eager or quick to argue, quarrel or fight
Combative, aggressive, antagonistic
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Rapacious
Aggressively greedy it grasping
Donald's Rapacious kids
I am a rapacious eater
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Demarcation
Separation, distinction, division, border
The demarcation of the border
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Gauche
Socially awkward, lacking grace or unsophisticated
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Reposit
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Impertinence
G
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Insouciantly
G
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Pugnacious
Eager or quick to argue, quarrel or fight
Combative, aggressive, antagonistic
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Rapacious
Aggressively greedy it grasping
Donald's Rapacious kids
I am a rapacious eater
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Inscrutable
Enigmatic, difficult to understand
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Moniker
Name or nickname
Earned the grim moniker: "passing the trash"
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Ad hominem
Vicious ad hominem attack
Personal attack versus attack on position they are taking
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Impertineness
Rudeness
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Austerity
Strictness
Before dawn in the austerity of an ashram
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Overwrought
Too overdone, ornate in its construction
Michelle Obama thought les Mis was overwrought
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Implacable
Relentless, unstoppable
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Chicanery
Trickery
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Elucidate
Explain
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Prowess
Expertise
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Eurythmic
Soothing, harmonious
Eurythmic facade
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Cad
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.
Failing to act as a result of moral cowardice
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Convertible note
Short term debt that converts into equity. The principal plus accrued interest converts into equity at later debt.
