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Vocab 9 Flashcards

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Admiring

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complimentary; favorable

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Belligerent

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contentious; hostile and aggressive

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Captious

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ready to detect trivial faults; find fault in others

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Delirious

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suggesting frenzied excitement

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Effusive

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excessively demonstrative, gushing

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Flippant

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lacking proper respect or seriousness

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Giddy

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lightheartedly silly

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Indignant

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showing anger at injustice

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Lagoon

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A shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by barrier islands or reefs

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Specious

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superficially plausible but actually wrong: misleading in appearance

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