Vocab 4 Flashcards by Daphne Cheung

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jettison

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abandon or discard something

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guile

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sly or cunning

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expeditious

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done with speed and efficiency

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evanescent

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ephemeral, transient, disappearing

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effervesce

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vivacious, ebullient, enthusiastic

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pretext

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an excuse or a reason to do something

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distend

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make something swell from the inside

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discrepancy

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lack of compatibility or similarity between two things

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corrugated

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shaped with ridges and grooves (like cardboard)

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convivial

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genial, friendly, amiable, gregarious

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congeal

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solidify by cooling

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confide

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tell someone a secret while trusting them not to tell

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cohere

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to form a whole

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vindictive

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seeking revenge

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usurp

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to seize and take control

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suave

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urbane, sophisticated, polite

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unassuming

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not arrogant, modest

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torpor

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inactivity

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terse

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expressed in few words; laconic, pithy

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adage

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a proverb or maxim

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debacle

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a failure

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extricate

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to free someone from difficulty

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extemporize

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improvise

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tenure

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a term of office

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wan

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pale, comatose

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emaciated

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skinny, thin and weak

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recondite

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esoteric

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elegiac

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sorrowful, mournful

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reprove

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censure, criticize

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craven

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lacking courage; cowardly

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prolix

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verbose, convoluted

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asinine

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foolish and dumb (inane, moronic)

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apogee

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zenith, pinnacle

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sapient

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sharp-minded, acute, ingenious

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clandestine

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done secretly (think: Frankenstein)

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pariah

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a social outcast

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neoteric

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modern

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circumspect

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to be meticulous and scrupulous

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perdurable

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permanent, enduring

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itinerant

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wandering (peripatetic, nomadic)

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vulpine

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relating to foxes; sly and cunning

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acquisitive

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materialistic, interested in money

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adulate

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to praise and laud

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obstreperous

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rebellious

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soporific

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sleep-inducing, boring

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dilatory

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causing delay

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chaste

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pure and clean, virgin

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juggernaut

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overwhelming force

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perfunctory

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done without much care or effort

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abstemious

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austere and ascetic