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Vocab 3 Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Abdicate

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Cast off duty/ responsibility

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Despondent

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Feeling/ showing extreme discouragement/ dejection/ depression

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Elucidate

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To make something difficult/ hard to understand

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Fastidious

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Very careful how you do something/ hard to please

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Foible

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Minor flaw/ shortcoming in character or behavior of weakness

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ILK

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The same/ sort / kind negative connotation (bad group)

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Impugn

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Criticize character suggesting that person isn’t honest

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Ineffable

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Incapable of expressing in words
(Powerful, beautiful, great)

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Megalomania

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Delusional belief that one has unlimited power/ importance

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Mellifluous

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Having smooth flowing sound

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Obfuscate

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To make obscure/ confuse/ darken

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Odious

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Causing hatred/ strong dislike
Syn: irascible

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Ostensible

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Seeming to said to be true but possible not true/ real intended for display

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Ostentatious

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Get noticed draw attention (bad)
Syn: garish

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Palliative

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Reduces negative effects/ sooths
Syn: assuage

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16
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Paucity

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Small amount of something less than what is wanted/ needed

17
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Pique/ puiqed

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To cause interest/ curiosity
To make someone annoyed/ angry

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Proclivity

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Strong liking for something/ tendency
Syn: propensity (type)

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Pugnacious

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Having quarrelsome combative nature
Syn: irascible

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Quixotic

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Foolishly impractical especially in pursuit of ideals/ romance
Syn: fantasy

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Remuneration

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Money/ other payment for the work a person has done
Syn: payment

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Salubrious

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Healthy/ promoting health/ wellbeing

23
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Sundry

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Made up of different things/ miscellaneous
Syn: eclectic

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Unconscionable

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Extremely bad/ unfair/ wrong/ shockingly unjust

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Vociferous

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Expressing feelings/ opinions in very loud/ forceful way

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