Vocab 61-90 Flashcards

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious, resembling a puzzling situation

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Emulate

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Try to equal or excel

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Ennui

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Feeling of lack of interest or boredom

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a very short time

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Epicure

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Person who cultivates a refined taste, especially in food and wine

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Equivocate

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Use unclear expressions to avoid commitment or to mislead

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Erudition

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Knowledge acquired by a study, research

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Esoteric

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Understood by only a select few who have special knowledge/interest

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Espouse

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Make ones own, to marry

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Ethereal

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Light, airy, extremely delicate

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Extol

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Praise highly

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Fatuous

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Foolish, silly, unreal

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Fecund

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Producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation in abundance

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Felicity

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State of being happy, in high degree

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Fetid

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Having an offensive odor

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Flippant

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Disrespectful, shallow, lacking in seriousness

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Florid

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Reddish, rosy

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Foible

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Minor weakness or failing of character, slight flaw or defect

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Furtive

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Taken/done/used by secret, sly

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Garish

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Tastefully colorful, showy, elaborate, as clothes or decoration

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Garner

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Gather, collect

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Guile

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Crafty or artful deception, in attaining a goal

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Hedonism

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Devotion to a pleasure as a way of life

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Heretic

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Anyone who doesn’t conform to an established attitude or principle. Maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by the church

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Hiatus
Break or interruption in the continuity of a work, serious, action
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Histrionic
Actors or acting. Overly dramatic in behavior or speech
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Hoary
Gray or white with age, ancient
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Iconoclasm
Person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditions, being based on error or superstition
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Immutable
Unchangeable
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Impervious
Incapable of being influenced, persuaded, affected, injured, or passed through