Vocab 7 Flashcards by Daphne Cheung | Brainscape

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sundry

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of various kinds; myriad

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prosaic

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lacking elegance; commonplace, trite

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renege

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go back to a promise or contract

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commiseration

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sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

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extirpation

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destroy completely

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retrenched

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reduce in extent or quantity

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abrogated

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to repeal or do away with

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predilection

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a special liking for something; bias

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beleaguer

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beset with difficulties

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cathartic

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releasing emotions (relief)

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reverberate

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to echo

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pandering

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gratify or indulge

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seditious

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causing people to rebel

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clairvoyant

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able to see the future

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autarchy

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totalitarian, tyranny

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diffuse

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convoluted, verbose

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tautological

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saying the same thing in two ways

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fatuous

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foolish and dumb

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impressionable

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gullible, easily influenced

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incredulous

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not easily believing things

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credulous

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believing things easily

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ingratiating

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unctuous, servile, sycophantic

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mutinous

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refusing to obey orders

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subservient

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prepared to obey others unquestioningly

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censorious

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critical; tending to blame and condemn

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caucus

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a committee

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captious

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tending to point out trivial faults

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milieu

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surroundings; environs

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malevolent

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malignant; wanting to harm

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stasis

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equilibrium

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unfrock

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to dethrone

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usury

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practice of lending money at exorbitant rates (loan shark)

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peregrinate

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travel by foot

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consternation

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the intense state of fear or dismay

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amorphous

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having no definite form

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apposite

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appropriate or well adapted

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elegy

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a mournful poem, usually about the dead

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illusory

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deceptive, producing illusion

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stalwart

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loyal, diligent and trustworthy

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imprecation

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a curse

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philistine

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a person who is materialistic

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plaintive

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expressive of suffering or woe, melancholy

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sequester

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to seclude and set apart

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sanctimonious

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hypocritically devout

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saturnine

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cold and steady in mood, gloomy

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ossify

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the harden, to turn into bone

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masochist

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someone who enjoys being in pain

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maverick

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a pariah, an outcast, a foreigner

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epochal

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momentous, highly significant

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vernacular

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colloquial, or the specialized language of a profession (jargon)