Vocab Words Flashcards by Bridget G | Brainscape

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Prominent

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High standing

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Frenzied

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Wildly excited or enthusiastic

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Virtuous

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Having many good qualities

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Congenital

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Existing at birth

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Consummate

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Highest level

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Malleable

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Easily shaped

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Contentious

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Complaining

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Fluctuate

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Constantly changing

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Renunciation

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Act of rejecting of giving up something

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Scorn

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Complete lack or respect for

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Vigor

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Great energy in life

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Haughty

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Extremely proud and arrogant

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Anguish

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Deep emotional suffering

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Apocryphal

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Doubtful,not being believed

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Bellum

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Latin word for war or fight

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Belligerent

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Someone who is aggressive or found of fighting

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Bellicose

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Warlike, found of fighting, aggressive

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Antebellum

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Before war

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Bane

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Good or well

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Fac

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To do

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Dic

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To speak

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Benefactor

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Someone who does good things

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Benediction

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Blessing

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Beneficial

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Something good for you

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Male

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Bad or evil in Latin

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Malefactor

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Someone who does bad

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Benine

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Good and generous

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Male diction

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Curse you put of someone

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Malignant

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Bad or cancerous

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Malicious

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Spiteful, evil

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Plucky

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Brave

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Paucity

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Lack of

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Hyperbolic

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Exaggerate

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Exorbitance

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Too high in price

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Laurid

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Sensational, attracting attention

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Maim

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Scared or damaged

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Negligent

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Neglecting ones responsibilities

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Recant

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To take back to recall

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Exacerbate

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To make worse

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Preminision

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A feeling something bad will happen

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Blithe

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Cheerful, happy

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Tacit

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Silent, unspoken

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Evocation

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To call forth, reminds you of

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Circumscribed

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To limit or restrict, to draw a circle around

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Repugnant

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Disguised

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Substantiate

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To prove true

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Mundane

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Ordinary, commonplace

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Hamper

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To hinder, to make harder

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Lampoon

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To make fun of using satire or parody

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Zealous

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Intensely enthusiastic and faithful

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Slothful

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Extreme laziness

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Imperious

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Very bossy in an arrogant way king or queen

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Detrimental

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Harmful to

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Cynical

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Expecting the worse in people

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Tableaus

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Sticking scene pretty

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Aesthetics

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Having to do with the arts

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Impudent

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Very bold in a disrespectful way