Vocab Flashcards

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Surreptitious

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Kept secret cuz it wouldn’t be approved of

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Acrimonious

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Angry/bitter

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Carte Blanche

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Complete freedom to act however

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Facetious

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Treating issues with inappropriate humor

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Faux pas

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An embarrassing remark in social situation

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Tenuous

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Very weak, slight

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Panacea

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Solution for all difficulties/diseases

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Parsimonious

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Stingy, unwilling to spend money

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Pernicious

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Gradual harmful effect

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Ubiquitous

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Present, appearing, found everywhere

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Caveat

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Warning of specific conditions

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Pandemic

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(Of a disease) widespread over whole

Country or world

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Enigmatic

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Difficult to understand, mysterious

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Implicit

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No qualification or question. Not plainly expressed

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Pretentious

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Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance that one doesn’t have

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Denizen

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Occupant of a particular place

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Precocious

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Having developed certain abilities at an earlier age than usual

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Egregious

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Outstandingly bad, shocking

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Debonair

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Confident, stylish, charming

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Astute

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Having the ability to assess situations and turn this to ones advantage

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Beneficent

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Doing good, generous

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Sanctimonious

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Making a show of being morally superior to other people

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Vicarious

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Experienced in the imagination through the feelings/actions of another person

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Specious

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Actually wrong

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Heinous
Wicked
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Equivocate
To conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself
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Connoisseur
Expert judge in matters of Taste
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Cadaverous
Resembling a corpse in being very thin, pale, bony
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Expostulate
Expressing strong disapproval
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Grandiose
Impressive in appearance/style without being so
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Megalomania
Obsession with power, especially in domination of others
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Webinar
A seminar conducted over the internet
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Pescatarian
Doesn't eat meat, but eats fish
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Lackadaisical
Lazy