Vocab 3 Flashcards

1
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Pensive

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Thinking deeply or seriously

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2
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Inanimate

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Not alive ; lifeless

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3
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Venerable

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Commanding respect

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4
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Pathos

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Quality that arouses pity , sorrow or sympathy in others

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5
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Impertinent

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Not showing proper respect

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6
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Obstinacy

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Stubbornness

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7
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Imperceptible

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Not easy to perceive ; unnoticeable

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8
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Importunate

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Insistent

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9
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Munificent

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Generous

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10
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Equivocal

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Having more than one interpretation

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11
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Specious

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Seeming to be but not actually sound

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12
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Anomalous

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Odd ; our of the ordinary

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13
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Sentience

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Capacity for feeling

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14
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Impulsive

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Spontaneously , swayed by emotion.

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15
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Efface

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To wipe out , do away with

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16
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Pedestrian

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Traveling on foot

17
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Prescient

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Knowledge of things / events b4 they happen

18
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Eloquence

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Art of using language fluency

19
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Inarticulate

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Lacking ability to express ones self

20
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Maledictions

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Curse

21
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Inscrutable

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Incapable of being investigated , understood ( comprehensible )