Vocab 8 Flashcards by Erin Mancini | Brainscape

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Otiose

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Useless futile

Productive necessary

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Puerile

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Juvenile infantile

Mature

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Aleatory

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Dependent on luck

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Asperity

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Roughness severity irascibility

Kindness mildness

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Renunciation

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Rejection

Admittance concession

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Unimpeachable

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Unquestionable beyond doubt infallible

Flawed

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Inveigh

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To protest disapprove berate remonstrate

Comment laud praise

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Lionize

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To treat as a celeb honor exalt

Ignore overlook

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Allay

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To relieve

Excite intensify agitate

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Vitiate

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Corrupt morally

Purify cleanse

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly resistant showing opposition

Obediant

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Exegesis

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Explanation of a text

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Ameliorate

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To improve

Damage

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Profligate

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Wasteful immoral decadent

Virtuous principled

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Pander

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To exploit weaknesses in others cajole

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