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Vocab Flashcards

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Diffident

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Lacking self confidence

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Implacable

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Incapable of being appeased or pacified

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Ameliorate

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Make better

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Quiescent

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Causing no symptoms

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5
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Belie

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Be in contradiction with

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Grandiloquent

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Lofty in style

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Euphemism

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An inoffensive statement substituted for an offensive statement

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Obdurate

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Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

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Indignant

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Angered at an injustice or supposed injustice.

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Precipitate

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Bring on, usually with a negative connotation

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Attenuate

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Make or become weaker

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12
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Inimical

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Harmful for or opposed to

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Reticent

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Being uncommunicative, giving as little information possible.

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14
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Polemic

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Causing controversy from negative opinions

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Ecumenical

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Universal, applying to all or almost all.

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Contiguous

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  1. Beside and near one another

2. Coinciding parts of a continuous chain

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Bucolic

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  1. Idealized country life
  2. Relating to sheep or herdsmen

Noun

  1. Country person
  2. Poem idealizing country living
18
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Wan

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Lacking vitality and color or looking noticeably ill as a result

Verb

To become pale and sickly

19
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Maudlin

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Emotional, sometimes overly emotional

20
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Sonorous

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Full and deep like a bass tenor

21
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Caesura

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A break, of total silence, in a song, poem or conversation

22
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Sundry

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Random assortment

23
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Picaresque

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Involving clever rogues and adventurers, especially in fiction.

24
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Odious

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Hateful

25
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Teleological

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Starting from the end and reasoning backwards

26
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Palimpsest

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Document with writing overtop of previous writing that had been partially erased

27
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Apocryphal is

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Being of questionable authenticity

28
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Felicity

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Contentment or joy

29
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Furtive

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Sneaky or covert

30
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Assiduous

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Careful, methodical, very persistent

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