Vocab List 3 Flashcards by Emily Horton | Brainscape

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Affable

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Friendly, courteous

Bff=aff

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Audacity

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Excessive boldness

Bold driving auto in the city

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Contrite

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Extremely apologetic

I’m sorry u fell on concrete

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Credulous

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Believing with small evidence

Believing with out seeing, cred=believe

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Depravity

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Moral corruption, a wicked act

Bad gravity

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Deprecate

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Disapprove regretfully

Deprecate the idea of school because I might need it later in life

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Didactic

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Instructive

Teacher, did u know?

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Dormant

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Inactive or sleeping

People are inactive in their dorm room

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious, unexplainable

Enigmatic=magic

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Erudite

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Scholarly

Rude smart people

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Exotic

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Foreign

Exotic fruit

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Fuse

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To mix or join together

Fuse two things together

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Immutable

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Unchanging

No mutating

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Incorrigible

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Incapable of being reformed or improved

No correcting

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Loathe

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To detest, hate

I loathe school

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Mitigate

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To cause to become less harsh or hostile

Dog is less harsh, doesn’t break through gate

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Nullify

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To cause not to be in effect

To cancel a veto to a document, nullify it

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Pacifistic

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Opposed to war, wants peace

Peace, pacifist

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Pretentious

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Making an extravagant outward show

Pretend

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Prologue

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Introductory of a play or literary work

Intro to book

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Recant

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To withdraw or repudiate a statement

Again I can’t say that

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Abstruse

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Hard to understand

Obtuse, I don’t understand

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Servile

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Overly submissive

Servant at heart

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Trepidation

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Fear, trembling

Trepidation=tremble

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Vilify

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To defame

I want Miley Cyrus to be vilified