Vocab Week 5 Flashcards

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Candid

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Truthful and straightforward; frank

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Condescending

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Having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority

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Salacious

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Lustful, lecherous

Synonym: prurient

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Reticent

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Not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily

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Altruistic

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showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish.

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Stoic

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a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.

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Macabre

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disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.

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Idyllic

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(especially of a time or place) like an idyll; extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque.

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Hyperbolic

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(of language) exaggerated; hyperbolical.

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Rhetorical

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(of a question) asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information.

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Apologetic

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regretfully acknowledging or excusing an offense or failure.

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Ephemeral

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Lasting for a very short time

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Pedantic

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Scrupulous,precise,exact

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Didactic

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intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.
Synonym:edification

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Introspective

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Inward-looking, self-analyzing

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Capricious

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given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.

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Misogynistic

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reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
Ex: of mice and men curley’s wife

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Patronizing

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treat with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority. Condescending

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Dogmatic

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inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.

Authoritarian

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Droll

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curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement.

Humorous