Vocab Group 1 Flashcards by Miah Manning

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aberrant

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abnormal

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abscond

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flee, to steal and hide

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alacrity

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eagerness, enthusiastic willingness

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approbation

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approval, praise

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assuage

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to ease, to appease

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austere

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bare, severely simple, ascetic

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axiomatic

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self-evident, universally accepted

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capricious

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indecisive, erratic, unpredictable

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censure

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harsh criticism or disapproval, official rebuke

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chicanery

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trickery, deception, subterfuge

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disabuse

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to set right

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discordant

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conflicting, dissonant or harsh in sound

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disparate

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fundamentally different or distinct

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effrontery

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extreme boldness, presumptuousness

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enervate

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to weaken or exhaust

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ennui

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dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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exculpate

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to exonerate

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exigent

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urgent or pressing

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extermporaneous

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improvised

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fulminate

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to loudly attack or denounce

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ingenuous

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innocent, frank, child-like

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inured

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hardened, accustomed to the undesirable

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irascible

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irritable, easily angered

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laud

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to highly praise

magnanimity

generosity, nobility of spirit, forgiving

nascent

beginning to exist or develop

neologism

new word or expression

obviate

to prevent, to get around

onerous

troubling, burdensome

paean

song or praise thanksgiving

perfidy

breach of faith or trust, treachery

perfunctory

routine, done without care or interest

perspicacious

astute, perceptive

precipitate (adj.)

hasty or impulsive

precipitate (v.)

to bring about unexpectedly or prematurely

predilection

preference

prescience

foreknowledge, clairvoyance

prevaricate

to avoid the truth, mislead

qualms

concerns, doubts

relegate

to forcibly assign (to a lower position), demote

reticent

quiet, reserved, uncommunicative

solicitous

concerned and attentive

sordid

filthy, foul

stymie

to block or thwart

truculent

fierce and cruel, eager to fight

veracity

honesty