Vocab 6 Flashcards by Maylin Wongjarupun | Brainscape

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Buffoon

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A clown, someone who amuses with tricks and jokes

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Capricious

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Changeable, fickle

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Delineate

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To describe in words, to sketch

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Elucidate

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To make clear

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Flagrant

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Outrageous; glaringly offensive

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Guile

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Crafty deceit; cunning

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Homogeneous

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Similar; uniform in nature

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Impassive

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Without feelings or emotion; insensible

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Latent

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Present but invisible/ inactive

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Mitigate

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To make or to become milder/ less severe

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Opulent

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Wealthy; abundant

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Paucity

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scarcity; smallness in number/ amount

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Rebuff

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To refuse in sharp way; to snub

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Sagacious

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Very wise/ shrewd

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Admonish

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To advise against something

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