Vocab Flashcards by Hawkeye Huff

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Copious

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Abundant

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Perplex

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Confuse

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Traverse

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Cross

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Bibliophile

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Book lover

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Demography

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Study of population

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Sanguine

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Cheerful

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Ostentatious

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Showy

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Microcosm

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Small universe

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Defenstrate

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Toss out the window

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Animus

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Intent or hatred

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Nonplused

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Perplexed

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Interdiction

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Prohibition

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Commensurate

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Of like measure

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Neophyte

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Beginner

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Incredulous

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Not believing

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Demur

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To object

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Poignant

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Sharp

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Lassitude

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Languor

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Apprehend

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To understand

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Prodigious

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Amazing

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Indolent

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Lazy

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Persiflage

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Flippant style

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Ambiguous

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Indefinite

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Ambivalence

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Conflicting feelings

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Déclassé

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Low class

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Putative

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Thought to be

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Mollify

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Make soft

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Gregarious

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Sociable

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Altercation

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Heated dispute

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Alter ego

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Second self

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Philander

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To engage in love affairs

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Apocrypha

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Unauthentic works

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Tendentious

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Slanted

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Importune

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To trouble with requests

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Apothegm

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A pithy saying

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Cacoethes

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A mania

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Precept

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A maxim

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Veridical

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Truthful

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Pulchritude

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Physical beauty

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Expunge

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Completely remove

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Acerbity

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Sharpness of temper

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Perfidy

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Breach of faith

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Translucent

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Semitransparent

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Cacophony

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Bad noise

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Tangible

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Touchable

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Altruism

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Concern for others

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Obsequies

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Funeral ceremonies

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Exodus

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A departure

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Pensive

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Sadly thoughtful

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Salubrious

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Healthful

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Demure

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Modest or affectedly modest

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Undulate

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To wave

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Amiable

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Friendly

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Abate

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To lessen

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Serene

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Clear and calm

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Obsequious

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Servile

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Sedate

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Calm

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Condescend

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Lower oneself

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Nihilism

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Belief in nothing

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Interstice

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Small space

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Dialectic

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Logical argument

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Temerarious

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Reckless

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Sophist

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A specious reasoner

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Erudite

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Scholarly

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Denouement

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Unraveling of plot

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Concupiscence

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Intense desire or lust

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Esculent

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Edible

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Pertinacious

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Holding stubbornly

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Interlocutor

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Person in conversation

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Aphorism

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A concise wisdom

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Autodidact

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Self-taught person

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Reify

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Treat as real

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In medias res

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In the middle of things

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Circumvent

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Get around

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Exculpate

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Free from blame