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Vocab for final Flashcards

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Affluent

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Having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich.

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Conducive

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Tending to cause or bring about; contributive; helpful

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Facilitate

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To make easy or easier; to help along or assist (not people but processes).

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Innocuous

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Having no adverse effect; harmless.

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Integral

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Essential, vital, fundamental, constitutional

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Nonchalant

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Seeming to be coolly unconcerned or indifferent; not easily excited, even under pressure; casual.

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Pompous

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Characterized by an exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance

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Stolid

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Having or revealing little emotion or interest

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Tangible

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Discernible by the touch; palpable; possible to touch

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Intangible

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Not discernible by the touch; impossible to touch

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Propogate

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To spread or transmit (an idea, belief, doctrine) from person to person

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Emulate

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To seek to be like; to copy or imitate; to take as a model

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Flagrant

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Glaringly, obviously offensive; deliberate and conspicuous behavior

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Gregarious

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Seeking and enjoying the company of others

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Innumerable

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Too numerous to be counted; numberless.

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Monotonous

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Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone

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Ostracize

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To exclude from normal social or professional activities; to shut out; to make one feel unwelcome and rejected.

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Suave

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Smoothly agreeable and courteous; effortlessly gracious and tactful in social manner.

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Succinct

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Clearly expressed in few words

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Vindictive

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Revengeful; unforgiving and bitter; spiteful.

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Volatile

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Following no predictable pattern; variable, uncertain, unstable, changeable, inconsistent

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Affinity

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A natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, idea, etc

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Benevolence

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A desire to do good to others

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Complacent

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Marked by self-satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual deficiencies; total lack of concern

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Condescend

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To put aside one’s dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior; To come down from higher level

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Docile

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Easily managed or handled; gentle, mild, tame

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Dogmatic

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Devoted to certain beliefs without regard to practicability

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Momentous

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Extremely memorable, having left permanent and significant impressions

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Poignant

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Affecting the emotions; touching; stirring; affecting

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Satiate

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To satisfy or totally fill

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Insatiate

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Incapable of being filled or satisfied

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Transdescendent

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Above and independent of the material universe; to rise up

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Catalyst

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Something that sparks a reaction

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Chronic

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Something that happens repeatedly; long time

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Emaciated

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To be extremely thin from starvation

36
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Exude

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to radiate; to ooze or seep out

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Impervious

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not able to be affected by; harmed

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Nugatory

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Useless; worthless and not affective

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Ostentatious

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Boastful showyness

40
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Patronize

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To go often as a customer; to treat in an condescending manner

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Trepidation

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Filled with fear

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Intrepid

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Bold; fearless

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Vociferous

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Noisy and loud; outspoken

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Austere

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Lacking decoration; strict, stern

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Cogent

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Effective in thought and expression; convincing; logical

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Congenial

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kind; warm; welcoming

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Definitive

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Conclusive; Authoritative; final

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Expedient

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Useful given the circumstance

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Malice

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A desire to harm others

50
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Temerity

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Disregard of danger; recklessness

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Tentative

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Hesitant; uncertain

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Vehement

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Enthusiasm; being sure

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Wary

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Being very cautious; careful

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Aesthetic

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Having to do with beauty

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Avarice

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Excessive desire for more than one needs or deserves; greed

56
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Belligerent

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Tending to be hostile and violent

57
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Incontestable

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Without contest; absolute; positive; without a doubt

58
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Invariable

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without variation; something that never changes

59
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Intuition

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A gut feeling

60
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Meticulous

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Very detail oriented

61
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Precarious

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lacking stability

62
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Retribution

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getting revenge; payment for something done wrong

63
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Sagacious

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someone with a lot of great advice

64
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Ardent

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Having intense feeling; passionate; Intensely devoted. eager. enthusiastic

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Arduous

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Imposing a a severe test of bodily strength

66
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Augur

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to divine or predict from omens

67
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Despondency

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Depression of spirits from lost of hope, confidence

68
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Divulge

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To disclose or reveal (secret or private)

69
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Florid

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bright with color

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Formidable

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anything that inspires fear or awe

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Gingerly

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very cautious or careful

72
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Profane

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Something that is inappropriate; defiled; spoiled

73
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Thwart

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Something that stands in the way of something else

74
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Aberration

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Different than usual or what is expected

75
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Condone

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To overlook something that was wrong

76
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Cornucopia

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An overflowing supply

77
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Hyperbole

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Exaggerating a fact

78
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Ingratiate

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To get on someone’s good side

79
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Iota

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A very small quantity

80
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Pernicious

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Tending to cause death or serious injury

81
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Rapport

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Connection or relationship

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Turbid

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something that is not clear

83
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Wheedle

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To persuade by flattering

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