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Vocab List 5 Flashcards

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Ameliorate

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To make better, to relieve, to improve

*Amelia Earhart made people feel better about flying over the Atlantic Ocean.

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Amenable

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Open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, malleable

*Amenable, agreeable

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Amorphous

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Shapeless, having no definite form

*Amorphous, formless

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Buoyant

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Capable of floating; cheerful

*boat floats

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Cajole

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To persuade with deliberate flattery

*its pronounced cayjewel

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Calamity

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A serious event causing distress or misfortune

*too calm, something bad has happened

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Debase

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To reduce in dignity

*thrown off base, not important anymore

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Efface

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Erase

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Elucidate

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To make clear, explain

*explain about some date in history

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a short amount of time, temporary

*A glass emerald jewel breaks

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Ferocity

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Savagery

*ferocious

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Flourish

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Thrive

*Grow

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Acrimonious

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Caustic

*Criminal is bitter

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Haughty

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Arrogant, too proud

*thinks they are hot

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Impervious

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Incapable of being entered or damaged

*no imperfection

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Inane

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Lacking significance

*Insane and not important

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Indolence

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Laziness

*idol laziness

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Infallible

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Incapable of error

*cant fall down

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Inscrutable

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Difficult to understand

*crusty rusty, don’t remember, hard to understand

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Languid

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Slow, sluggish, weak

*squid, slow

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Malice

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Desire to harm others

*Hitler

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Oblique

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Slanting, indirect, misleading

*obtuse

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Opulence

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Wealth, abundance

*u ence, abundance

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Penitent

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Showing or feeling regret of doing wrong

*felt bad about putting pet in a tent

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Perfunctory

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Acting routinely without caring

*functory, factory, going, not caring

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