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Vocab Semester 1 Flashcards

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Utterly hopeless, humiliating, wretched

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Abject

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Haughty, disdainful, contemptuous as a person or facial expression

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Supercilious

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Disturbed as in ones composure or expression

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Disconcerted

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To perplex or amaze especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise

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Confound

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Disposition or bent, especially of the mind or will; liking or preference

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Inclination

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Anxious or concerned (usually followed about, for, etc. a clause)

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Solicitous

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To accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc; toughen or harden
(Usually followed by to)

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Inure

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To affect with sharp irritation and resentment, especially by some wound to pride; to excite (interest, curiosity, etc.)

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Pique

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To confuse or puzzle completely; perplex

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Bewilder

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Strong feeling of dislike, opposition

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Aversion

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Outward aspect or appearance, slightest appearance or trace

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Semblance

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Attribute or ascribe

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Impute

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Find fault with or blame

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Reproach

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Accustom as to a particular situation

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Habituate

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Abundance of money, property, and other material goods; riches and wealth

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Affluence

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Disturb or disquiet greatly in mind, agitate

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Perturb

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Indicate in advance, foreshadow

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Portend

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18
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High in station,means, or repute

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Eminent

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To cause or produce as an effect

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Beget

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Irritate, annoy. Provoke

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Vex

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Disdainfully proud, snobbish, scornfully arrogant

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Haughty

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Formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence or proof

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Conjecture

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Invoke or call down evil or curses as upon a person

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Imprecate

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Unwavering as in resolution, faith, or adherence

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Steadfast

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Putrify or rot

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Fester

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The act of killing ones father, mother, or other close relative

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Parricide

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A group of persons or things gathered or collected

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Assemblage

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28
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Excess or excessive amount

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Surfeit

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29
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Traveler, especially on foot

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Wayfarer

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Any cause if impairment, frustration, ruin, or destruction

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Blight

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Means by which atonement or reparation is made

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Expiation

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Authority, rightful status, independence, prerogative

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Sovereignty

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33
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Habitually inactive or lazy

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Sluggard

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34
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To stay at an obstacle and refuse to proceed or do something specified

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Balk

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35
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False and malicious statement used to hurt the reputation of something or someone

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Calumny

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Plan with ingenuity, devise, invent

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Contrive

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37
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Soothe sayer or prophet

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Augur

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38
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Disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.

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Quarrel

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To prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge

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Refute

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A written declaration with an oath made before an authorized official

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Affidavit

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Lacking some element or characteristic, defective, insufficient, inadequate

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Deficient

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A person who questions, interrogator

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Interlocutor

43
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Giving forth utterances or decisions as if by special inspiration or authority

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Oracular

44
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Strongly emotional, intense, or passionate

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Vehement

45
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Of little or no weight, worth, or importance, not worthy of serious notice

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Frivolous

46
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Contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech

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Insolence

47
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Fervor for a person, cause or object

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Zeal

48
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To deprive a person of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote

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Disenfranchise

49
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Reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations

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Piety

50
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To pray or petition humbly

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Supplicate

51
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The willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation

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Perjury

52
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Deficient in veneration or respect

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Irreverent

53
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To give urgent advice, recommendations, or warnings

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Exhort

54
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Not within proper or reasonable limits, excessive

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Inordinate

55
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To speak damagingly of, criticize in a derogatory manner

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Denigrate

56
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To speak abusively

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Revile

57
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Pleasing in appearance, attractive, fair

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Comely

58
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Characterized by a lack of order or planning by irregularity or randomness

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Haphazard

59
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To move or act with haste

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Hasten

60
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To imprison, confine

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Incarcerate

61
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Seeking or request for truth, investigate

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Inquiry

62
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To deprive something of value or effectiveness

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Nullify

63
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To find fault with or reproach severely

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Upbraid

64
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Agreeable or pleasing in nature or character

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Congenial

65
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Concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading

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Deceit

66
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To establish oneself in the favor or good graces of someone

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Ingratiate

67
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Being in that place or over there

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Yonder

68
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A mechanical contrivance, gadget, device

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Contraption

69
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Subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change, erratic

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Capricious

70
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To cast oneself face down on the ground in humility, submission or adoration

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Prostrate

71
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An ill bred man, especially me who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward woman

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Cad

72
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Dignified propriety of speech, behavior, dress

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Decorum

73
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A particular business, occupation or profession, calling

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Vocation

74
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To free or release from entanglement, disengage

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Extricate

75
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To dry up or thoroughly

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Desiccate

76
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A delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying, an interval of relief

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Respite

77
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Immoderate in indulgence of appetite or passion

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Intemperate

78
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To pass or move over along or through

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Traverse

79
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A decline of mental facilities especially with old age, senility

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Dotage

80
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Accustomed, used

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Wont

81
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The arrangement and union of constituent parts or anything, constitution, structure

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Contexture

82
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Firmly or stubbornly adhering to ones opinion or purpose, not yielding in argument, persuasion, or entreaty

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Obstinate

83
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Mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain, calmness or equilibrium

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Equanimity

84
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Generous in forgiving an insult or injury, free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness

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Magnanimous

85
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Sluggish inactivity or inertia

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Torpor

86
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Emitting rays of light, shining or bright

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Radiant

87
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High pitched and piercing in sound quality

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Shrill

88
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To strike, blot out, erase, obliterate

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Expunge

89
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Morally ignoble or base, vile

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Sordid

90
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Hearty joyous humor or spirit of good fellowship

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Jovial

91
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Pretentious or conspicuous show as of wealth or importance, display intended to impress others

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Ostentation

92
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To praise or extol

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Exalt

93
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Mournful, Dismal or gloomy especially as in affected, exaggerated or unrelieved manner

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Lugubrious

94
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Outer or lower limits, minimal for requirements, almost insufficient

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Marginal

95
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Chief in importance or impact, supreme, preeminent

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Paramount

96
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Reserved or reticent, indifferent, disinterested

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Aloof

97
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Constant in application or effort, working diligently at a task, persevering, industrious, attentive

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Assiduous

98
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Pertaining to, consisting of, or representing the earth

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Terrestrial

99
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Acute mental discernment and keen practical sense, shrewd

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Sagacious

100
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Disorder or disease of the body especially chronic

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Malady

101
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Lacking in vigor or vitality, slack or slow

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Languid

102
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Deprive of force or strength, destroy the vigor of, weaken

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Enervate

103
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Linger over, ponder in thought, speech or writing, or emphasize. followed by upon or on

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Dwell

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Artifice or expedient used to escape a rule, escape a consequence, hide something

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Subterfuge

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