Vocab 91-120 Flashcards

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Impugn

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Challenge as false, cast doubt upon

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Impregnable

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Unable to be captured or broken into

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Inauspicious

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Not able to be success

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Incipient

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Initial stage, beginning to happen

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Incisive

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Intelligently analytical and clear thinking

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Incorrigible

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Not able to be corrected, improved

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Indecorous

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Not in keeping with good taste, improper

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Indefatigable

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Incapable of being tired out

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Innocuous

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Not harmful or offensive

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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand

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Insipid

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Lacking flavor, interest

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Intonate

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Utter with particular tone or voice modulation

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Intractable

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Hard to control or deal with

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Intrinsic

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Belonging naturally, essential

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Inveigh

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Speak or write about something with great anger

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Inveterate

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Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long established and unlikely to change

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Irascible

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Having or showing the tendency to be easily angered

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Jettison

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Throw or drop something from an aircraft or ship

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Juncture

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Particular point in events of time

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Juxtapose

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Place or deal with close together for contrasting effect

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Laconic

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Using very few words

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Lampoon

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Publicly criticize (someone/something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm

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Largess

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Generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others

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Lassitude

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State of physical or mental weariness, lack of energy

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Lethargy

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Lack of energy and enthusiasm

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Lithe

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(Especially of ones body) thin, bending, readily, gracefu

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Lurid

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Very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effects

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Malevolent

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Having or showing a wish to do evil to others

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Maudlin

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Tearfully emotional/ self pitying- often through drunkness

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Meander

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Of a river or road- following a winding course