Vocab Week 11 Flashcards by David Talsky | Brainscape

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Inundate

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To flood

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Fruitless

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Useless

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Poignant

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Moving, painful to the feeling

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Garbled

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Confused, mixed up

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Sanguine

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Optimistic

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To feather one’s nest

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Grow rich by taking advantage of circumstances inappropriately

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Phlegmatic

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Calm, hard to rouse to action

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Corroborate

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Confirm support

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Comprehensive

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Thorough

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Zealous

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Enthusiastic

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Coerce

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To force not physically

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Overzealous

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To enthusiastic hurts you

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Fair weather friends

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Unreliable only there when times are good

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Rash

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Too hasty reckless

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Conjecture

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Guess

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Obviate

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Do away with, eliminate

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Lurid

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Sensational causing a sensation

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Quip

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Joke