Vocab List 4 Flashcards by Emily Horton | Brainscape

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Aesthetic

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Realting to a sense of beauty or art.

*Aesthetic=artistic

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Aloof

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Apart indifferent

*Aloof=Apart

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Archaic

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Antiquated, old, out of use

*Arch=old

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Assuage

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To ease, to mitigate, to make less painful or burdensome, to calm

*sausage makes dogs calm

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Belie

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To contradict, to give a false impression

*Belle contradicts the normal fairy tale

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome, stirring controversy

*If u want to fight, u r not content

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Daunt

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To intimidate, to dismay

*Daunt=Haunt

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Debilitate

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To weaken, to enfeeble

*bills weaken ur budget

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Discord

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Lack of agreement, tension, strife

*agreement not going according to plan

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Dissemination

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The act of spreading widely; scattering

*Jesus needs to disseminate throughout the world

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Dogmatic

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Strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner

*dogs have strong opinions about treats

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Duplicity

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Double-dealing, hypocrisy

*Doing twice

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Egocentric

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Self-centered, selfish

*Ego=selfish

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Euphemism

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Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive

*Just kidding, no offense

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Gluttonous

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Greedy for food and drink

*Gluttonous=Greedy

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Mundane

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Ordinary, commonplace

*Ordinary Monday

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Ominous

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Threatening

*Threatening in all ways

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Petulance

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Unreasonable touchiness or irritability

*Pets are irritating

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Pompous

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Exaggerated show of dignity or self importance

*Pom poms=cheer leaders are selfish

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Precocious

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Exceptionally early in development or occurrence

*Pre=Early=Before

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Slothful

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Lazy, indolent

*sloth=lazy

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Trivia

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Significant matters

*questions of significant matters

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Verbose

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Wordy, very talkative

*Verbose=Verbal

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Virulent

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Extremely poisonous; hateful

*Violently poisonous

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Volatile

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Quickly changeable, easily vaporized

*Volatile=Vaporize