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Vocab - Test 1 Flashcards

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Feigned

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Simulated or pretended

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Fractiousness

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Difficult to control

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Exempt

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Free from obligation or liability

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Bizarre

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Very strange or unusual

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Bantering

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Playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks

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Complacency

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A feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction of oneself

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Intimation

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An indication or hint

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Levity

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Inappropriate humor or frivolity

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Proximity

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Nearby area

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Supercilious

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Behaving or looking like one is superior to others

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Extemporizing

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Compose, perform, or produce something without preparation

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Peremptorily

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Insisting on immediate attention or obedience

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Desolate

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Deserted of people, wasteland

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Contiguous

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Sharing a common border

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Apathetic

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Showing or feeling no interest or concern

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Languid

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Slow and relaxed

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Hauteur

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Haughtiness of manner, disdainful pride

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Incessant

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Continuing without pause or interruption

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Strident

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Loud and harsh

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Oculist

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Ophthmologist

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Indeterminate

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Not exactly known, established

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Prodigality

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Spending money and resources freely and recklessly

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Vehemently

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Showing strong feeling, forceful

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Credulity

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A tendency to believe something as real

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Cynical

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Distrustful of human integrity or sincerity

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Ascertain

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Find something out for certain

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Convivial

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Friendly, lively, enjoyable

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Affectation

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Behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial to impress

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Permeate

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Spread throughout (something)

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Corpulent

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Fat

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Innuendo

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An allusive or oblique remark

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Homogeneity

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Being homogenous, same kind

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Subterfuges

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Deceit used in order to achieve ones goal

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Punctilious

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Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior

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Labyrinth

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A complicated network of passages

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Disconcerting

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Causing one to feel unsettled

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Sinister

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Giving the impression that something evil is occurring or will occur

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Abstracted

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Showing a lack of concentration on what is happening around one

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Juxtaposition

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Two things contracted

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Sporadic

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Occurring at irregular intervals

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Luxuriated

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Enjoy oneself in a luxurious way

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Abstraction

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Dealing with ideas rather than events

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