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Vocab Flashcards

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Assiduous

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Methodical, precise, careful

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Inimical

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Not friendly

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Inimitable

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Matchless, very unique

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Buttress

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Reinforce or support

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Congenial

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  1. Suitable if your needs

2. Capable of cross fertilization/grafting (plants)

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Avuncular

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Being or relating to an uncle

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Palpable

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Capable of being touched, felt and Therefore perceived

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Oracular

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Giving off an Oracle vibe

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Odious

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Hateful

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Voluble

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Speaking at great length or a great deal

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Belie

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Contradict

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Altruistic

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Unselfish

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Debutante

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Young woman making her entsncf into society

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Hydroponic

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Relating to agriculture

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Eclectic

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Assorted

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Ebullient

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Joyously unrestrained

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Adulterate

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Make impure, falsify and corrupt

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Latent

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Capable of becoming active, though currently not.

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Egalitarian

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Someone who believes in social equality for all

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Bilk

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To obtain or maintain money through deceit

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Indigence

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Poverty

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Wizened

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Shriveled or wrinkled with age

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Tangential

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Peripheral, barely touching or relating to

Relating to a tangent

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Jettison

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To eject, throw or drop from a vessel

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Tacit

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Unspoken, or without need to be spoken

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Taciturn

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Quiet and restrained

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Proliferate

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Increase rapidly in number. Multiply

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Chicanery

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Using the sea to accomplish a goal. Typically tied to immoral approaches

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Winsome

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To be attractive or appealing in appearance or character. Cute captivating organized engaging

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Imperturbable

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Not easily excited or upset.

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31
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Devolve

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Return to origin

Get worse instead of better

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Iconoclastic

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Breaking established rules, beliefs or religious icons

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Precipitate

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Bring on or cause to happen

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Discursive

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Tending to depart from the main point

Proceeding to a conclusion through logical proof not intuition

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Frugality

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Prudence in avoiding waste

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Gregarious

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Seeking and enjoying the company of others

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Contention

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In competition

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Arduous

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Taxing to the point of exhaustion.

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Inherent

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Natural and immovable

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Irresolute

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Uncertain how to proceed

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Piety

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Reverence to a god

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Reverence

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Awe towards what’s considered a god-like figure

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Impugn

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Call into question or attack as wrong

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Abnegation

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When you purposely deny yourself something especially in providing for the needs of others

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Surfeit or surfeited

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Indulge to gluttony

To eat to over-fullness

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Lowest point

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Nadir

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Assuage

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Make an unpleasant feeling less intense

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Callow

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Young and inexperienced

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Moribund

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  1. (of a person) at the point of death.

2. (of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor

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Blade

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Unconcerned, uninterested

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Ennui

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Boredom typically from over exposure

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly

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Adroit

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Clever; resourceful

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Bellicose

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Quarrelsome

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Dilatory

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Causing delay

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Fecund

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Prolific, inventive

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Heuristic

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Learning through trial and error

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Insolent

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Impudent, contemptuous

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Inveterate

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Habitual

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Noxious

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Harmful, corrupting

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Pernicious

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Injurious, deadly

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Pervasive

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Wide spread

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Petulant

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Rude, I’ll humored

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Salubrious

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Healthful

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Tremulous

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Timid, shy, nervous, trembling

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Trenchant

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Sharp, distinctive, penetrating

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Turgid

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Swollen and pompous

69
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Ubiquitous

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Wide-spread, pervasive

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Wheedling

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Flattering

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Zealot

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Devoted, eager

72
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Withering

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Devastating

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Veracious

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Ravenous, insatiable

74
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Maudlin

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Overly emotional

75
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Histrionic

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Relating to acting or stage performance

76
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Rapacious

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Greedy

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Nebulous

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Cloudy

78
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Diaphanous

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Thin and transparent

79
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Umbrage

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Taking umbrage from something means it is making you angry or you are raking offense to it

80
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Acclimation

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Enthusiastic approval

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Festoon

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Garland of flowers in circular pattern

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Supercilious

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Extreme egotism

83
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Provenance

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Place of origin or earliest known meaning

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Hagiography

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Writing of the lives of the saints

85
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Rusticated

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To leave or be expelled temporarily

86
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Pretense

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  1. an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true.
  2. A false or ambitious claim
87
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Peculation

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The wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.

88
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Dissemble

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Conceal ones motives

89
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Mulct

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Extract money from by fine or taxation

90
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Insouciant

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Showing a general lack of concern

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Parsimonious

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Stingy or frugal

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Entropy

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Gradual decline

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Corporeal

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Relating to the body

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Enigma, enigmatic

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Something/one that is mysterious, puzzling

The act of being mysterious or puzzling

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Passé

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No longer fashionable, out of date

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