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

Low class

Putative

Thought to be

Mollify

Make soft

Gregarious

Sociable

Altercation

Heated dispute

Alter ego

Second self

Philander

To engage in love affairs

Apocrypha

Unauthentic works

Tendentious

Slanted

Importune

To trouble with requests

Apothegm

A pithy saying

Cacoethes

A mania

Precept

A maxim

Veridical

Truthful

Pulchritude

Physical beauty

Expunge

Completely remove

Acerbity

Sharpness of temper

Perfidy

Breach of faith

Translucent

Semitransparent

Cacophony

Bad noise

Tangible

Touchable

Altruism

Concern for others

Obsequies

Funeral ceremonies

Exodus

A departure

Pensive

Sadly thoughtful

Salubrious

Healthful

Demure

Modest or affectedly modest

Undulate

To wave

Amiable

Friendly

Abate

To lessen

Serene

Clear and calm

Obsequious

Servile

Sedate

Calm

Condescend

Lower oneself

Nihilism

Belief in nothing

Interstice

Small space

Dialectic

Logical argument

Temerarious

Reckless

Sophist

A specious reasoner

Erudite

Scholarly

Denouement

Unraveling of plot

Concupiscence

Intense desire or lust

Esculent

Edible

Pertinacious

Holding stubbornly

Interlocutor

Person in conversation

Aphorism

A concise wisdom

Autodidact

Self-taught person

Reify

Treat as real

In medias res

In the middle of things

Circumvent

Get around

Exculpate

Free from blame