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Vocab List 7 Flashcards

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Alacrity

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Eagerness, speed

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Abrogate

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To abolish usually by authority

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Boon

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A gift or blessing

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Burnish

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To polish, shine

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Calumny

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Attempt to ruin someone’s reputation by spreading lies

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Contrite

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Penitent, eager to be forgiven (for sins)

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Deleterious

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Harmful

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Discursive

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Rambling, lacking order

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Effulgent

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Radiant, splendorous

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Enervate

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To weaken, exhaust

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Fallacious

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Incorrect, misleading

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Florid

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Flowery, ornate

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Gregarious

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Sociable, outgoing

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Harangue

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A ranting speech, verbal attack

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Hegemony

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Domination over others

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Impassive

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Stoic, unemotional

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Imperious

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Commanding, domineering

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Impervious

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Impenetrable , incapable of being effected

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Implacable

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Incapable of being appeased or mitigated

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Inure

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To cause someone to become accustomed with a situation

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Jubilant

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Extremely joyful, happy

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Laconic

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Terse in speech or writing

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Legerdemain

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Deception, slight-of-hand

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Maelstrom

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A destructive whirlpool, storm, tempest

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Maudlin

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Weakly sentimental

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Mawkish

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Characterized my sick sentimentality

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Mendacious

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Lying, untruthful

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Multifarious

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Diverse, varied, motley, sundry

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Nascent

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At the beginning stages, not fully formed; inchoate, incipient

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Oblique

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Diverging from straight line or course, indirect

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Obsequious

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Excessively complaint or submissive, flattering, fawning

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Officious

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Offering services when unwanted or unneeded

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Opulent

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Rich, abundant, ostentatious

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Palliate

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To reduce severity of; alleviate, assuage, mitigate

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Parsimony

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Frugality, stinginess

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Paucity

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A lack of (in quantity), dearth

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Pellucid

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Clear, intelligible, lucid

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Penurious

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Miserly, stingy

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Protean

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Able to change shape, displaying great variety

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Puerile

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Juvenile, immature, sophomoric

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Pugnacious

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Hostile, inclined to fight; bellicose, belligerent, truculent

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Quagmire

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A difficult situation; swamp, morass

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Querulous

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Whiny, complaining

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Quixotic

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Idealistic, impractical

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Salient

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Significant, conspicuous

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Solipsistic

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Believing that ones self is all that exists

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Staid

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Sedate, serious, self-restrained

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Tenuous

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Weak, having little substance or strength

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Unctuous

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Smooth or greasy in texture, appearance, manner

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Verdant

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Green in tint or color

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