Vocab Flashcards by Madalyn Barrera | Brainscape

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Cosmopolitan

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At home all over the world

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Raffish*

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Gaudily vulgar or cheap

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Incongruous

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Out of place, inconsistent

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Vivacity

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Liveliness

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Heterogeneous

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Different

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Unrefined*

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Coarse or crude

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Ominously

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Threatening

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Perpetrated

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To commit (crime)

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Improvident

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Incautious

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Lurid

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Glaringly vivid, horrible

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Vivid

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Intense, bright

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Indolently

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Slothful, slow

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Feigned

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Pretended, fictitious

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Diffidently

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Lacking confidence

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Gaudy

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Excessively showy

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Bestial

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Beast like

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Contemptuously

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Expressing disrespect

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Affectation

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Effort to appear to have a quality

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Demureness

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Shyness and modesty

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Reproving

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To criticize or correct

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Saccharine

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Exaggeratedly sweet

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Contemptible

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Held in hate

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Repertoire

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A list

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Ineffectual

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Futile, without decisive effect

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Amiability

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Friendly, sociable

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Indistinguishable

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Not distinguishable

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Uncavalier*

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Discourteous, ungentleman

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Uncouth*

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Awkward, uncivil, rough

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Spectral

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Pertaining to a ghost

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Transitory

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Temporary

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Destitute

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Lacking food, shelter, clothing

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Sinuously

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Having many curves or turns

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Prodigiously

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Extraordinary in size

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Callous

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Insensitive, indifferent

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Perplexity

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Confusion, tangled

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Divested

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To rid of or free from

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Pinions

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Grasp and pin down

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Voluptuously

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Sensuous, luxury, pleasure