Vocab 31-60 Flashcards

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Conjugal

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Characteristic of marriage

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Confluence

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Gathering at one point

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Contentious

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To cause an argument

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Conundrum

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Riddle, anything that puzzles

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Copious

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Large in quantity or number

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Corpulence

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Largeness of body, fatness

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Coterie

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Group of people who associate closely; clique

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Credulous

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Willing to trust too readily without proper evidence

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Cryptic

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Mysterious in meaning

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Curmudgeon

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Bad tempered, difficult person

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Dearth

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Inadequate supply; lack

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Demagogue

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Person who gains power and popularity by playing with emotions and passions of people

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Desecrate

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Dishonor, violate

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Diatribe

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Bitter; sharply abusive attack or criticism

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Diffidence

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State of lacking confidence in ones own ability, worth or fitness

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Dilatory

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Delay or procrastinate

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Disaffected

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Discontented and disloyal toward the government or authority

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Discursive

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Passing aimlessly from one subject to another

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Dissemble

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False or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of

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Disparage

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Degrade someone as little worth

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Dispassionate

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not influenced by strong emotion, and so able to be rational and impartial.

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Dissonant

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Lacking harmony

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Dissuade

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Persuade not to do something

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Divination

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Attempting to foretell future events but supernatural means

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Dotard

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Old person who’s having mental faculties, weak-minded

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Duplicity

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Being two deceitful to get what you want

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Egregious

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Extraordinary in some bad way

A – liar

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Elegiac

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Mournful poem made for the dead

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Elucidate

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To provide clarification

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Emanate

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Originate from