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Vocab List 10-15 Flashcards

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Mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper especially in a difficult situation.

To be levelheaded or calm

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Equanimity

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In keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained

To be civilized and proper

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Decorous

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Unassuming or moderate in the estimation of ones Abilities or achievements

To be humble or simple

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Modest

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The state or quality of conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals

Correctness or respectability

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Propriety

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Acting with or showing care and thought for the future.

To be cautious and careful

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Prudent

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Sedate, respectable, and unadventurous

To be dignified or solemn

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Staid

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A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining

To be aloof or detached

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Stoic

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Express complete disapproval of, typically in public; censure

To criticize or denounce

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Condemn

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Harm the good reputation of soneone or something

To disgrace or slandersonething or someone

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Discredit

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Regard or represent as being of little worth

To ridicule or belittle

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Disparage

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Expressing contempt or disapproval

To express dislike or to debase something

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Pejorative

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To use the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas

To copy another’s work as if it were your own; Piracy

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Plagiarism

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To say or write very harsh and critical things about someone or something

To denounce or put down someone or something

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Vilify

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Behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way

Abrupt in a manner; blunt; or Rough

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Brusque

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Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue by chemical action

Description of a substance able to chemically damage something else

Acid

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Caustic

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Hard to control readily Angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome

Heart to manage or control

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Fractious

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Impervious to constraints of punishment; willful; unruly; uncontrollable

Incapable of being corrected or amended

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Incorrigible

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A person who does not show proper appreciation or thanks for something

A person who is ungrateful

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Ingrate

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Having or showing a lack of respect for other people; boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinence; insulting

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Insolent

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Having a widely known and unusually bad reputation

Unfavorably known

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Notorious

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Inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative

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Pugnacious

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Deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy

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Reprehensible

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Causing moral or physical injury; harmful

Injurious to health

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Deleterious

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A feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism

Deep hatred or hostility

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Enmity

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Extremely wicked; hateful shockingly wicked

Hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible

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Heinous

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The performance by a public official or an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing ( usually especially oven at in violation of a public trust)

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Malfeasance

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The unwillfully formed design to hurt another without reason or cause

Direct intentions to harm others or desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness

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Malice

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In a state of Foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten

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Putrid

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Malicious resentful miss or hostility; spite

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Rancorous

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Containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation

extremely harsh, malicious, or harmful

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Toxic

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Mark by the characteristics of it earlier period.; antiquated

Old, old-fashioned, or relating to a primitive period

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Archaic

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Made commonplace or trite; stale; banal.

Overdone and cliché

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Hackneyed

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Severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding

Strict in Anna, attitude, or appearance

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Austere

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The state or quality of being mediocre, ordinary, or of moderate quality

Having no superior quality

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Mediocrity

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Of or pertaining to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven; worldly; earthly

Lacking interest or excitement; dealing with the earthly world instead of the heavens

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Mundane

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Of great weight

Slow and clumsy because of weight

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Ponderous

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Commonplace or dog; matter-of-fact or unimaginative;

Lacking poetic beauty; unromantic

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Prosaic

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Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity

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Sedentary

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Anticipation of adversity or misfortune; suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil

Anticipating something with anxiety or fear

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Apprehension

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A person or thing that foreshadows or fortells the coming of someone or something

Someone or something that announces or signals the approach of another

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Harbinger

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Portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious

Giving an indication of that oncoming events

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Ominous

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A feeling of anticipation or of anxiety over a future event; Presentiment

A forewarning

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Premonition

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For fear; fearful

Scared

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Timorous

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Tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation

A state of hesitation or concern

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Trepidation

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Fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or needs

plenty

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Ample

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Of large scope; covering or involving much

Detailed

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Comprehensive

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Having or yeilding abundant supply

Fullness

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Copious

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To pass into or through every part of

Saturate

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Permeated

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Spread throughout

Distributed

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pervasive

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Extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force

Excessive

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Prodigious

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Abundantly supplied; filled

Sufficiently provided

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Replete

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Beginning to exist or develop

New

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Nascent

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A person who is new to the circumstances

Beginner

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Novice

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Worthy of imitation; commendable

Representing the best of something

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Exemplary

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Chief and importance or impact

Having superior power; Dominant

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Paramount

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Done or achieved with little effort or difficulty

Easy

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Facile

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Taking or showing extreme care about minute details

Being precise

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Meticulous

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To represent in an ideal form or character

To think or represent someone or something as being perfect

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Idealize

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A list or itemized display

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Catalog

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Excessively particular, critical, or demanding

Hard to please

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Fastidious

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Of a pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations

Focusing on practical results and facts instead of speculation and opinion

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Pragmatic

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Containing or expressing praise

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Laudatory

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To regard with respect, reverence, or heartfelt difference

To be respected

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Venerated

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Any system of persons or things ranked one above the other

Arrangement based on rank or importance

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Hierarchy

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Having assets in excess of liabilities

Being able to pay one’s debts

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Solvent

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