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Vocab Words In Context Flashcards

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Adulterate

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To make impure

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Abate

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Reduce in amount, degree, severity

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Amalgamate

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To combine, mix together

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Anachronism

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Something out of place in time

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Antipathy

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Extreme dislike

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Ardor

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Intense and passionate feeling

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Assuage

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To make something unpleasant less severe

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Audacious

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Fearless and daring

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Austere

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Severe or stern in appearance, undecorated

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Banal

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Predictable, cliched, boring

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Bombastic

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Pompous in speech and manner

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Cacophony

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Harsh, jarring noise

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Capricious

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Changing ones mind quickly and often

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Castigate

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To punish or criticize harshly

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Chauvinist

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Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs

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Chicanery

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Deception by means of craft or guile

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Cogent

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Convincing and well reasoned

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Dessicate

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To dry out thoroughly

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Desultory

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Jumping from one thing to another

Desultory circus rider that jumped from one horse to another.

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Diatribe

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An abusive condemnatory speech

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Diffident

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Lacking self-confidence

The diffident girl found it hard to talk to the boy of her dreams.

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Dilatory

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Intended to delay

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Dilettante

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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
The critics did not see the heiress as a serious filmmaker, only as a dilettante who was bored with her life.

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Dirge

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Funeral hymn, mournful speech

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Dissemble

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To present a false appearance

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Dissonance

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A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds

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Dogma

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Firmly held opinion

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Dogmatic

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Dictatorial in ones opinions

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Eclectic

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Made up of a variety of sources

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Efficacy

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Effectiveness

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Elegy

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Sorrowful poem or speech

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Enervate

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To reduce in strength

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Engender

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To produce, cause, or bring about

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a short time

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Equivocate

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To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

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Erudite

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Learned, scholarly, bookish

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Esoteric

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Known or understood by only a few

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Estimable

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Admirable

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Eulogy

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Speech of praise of someone

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Exculpate

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To clear from blame, prove innocent

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Exigent

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Urgent, requiring immediate action

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Fervid

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Intensely emotional, feverish

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Florid

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Excessively decorated or embellished

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Garrulous

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Tending to talk a lot

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Gregarious

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Outgoing, sociable

Parrots are gregarious and usually feed and roost in companies.

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Guile

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Deceit or trickery

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Iconoclast

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One who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions

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Imperturable

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Not capable of being disturbed

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Implacable

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Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful

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Inchoate

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Not fully formed, disorganized

But though inchoate in detail, it was in its principles clear and coherent enough.

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Ingenuous

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Showing innocence or childlike simplicity

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Inimical

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Hostile, unfriendly

The police officer had an inimical attitude towards white collar criminals.

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Insipid

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Lacking interest, flavor

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Intransigent

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Uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled

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Irascible

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Easily made angry

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Laconic

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Using few words

If trials were laconic, then it wouldn’t take years to find a verdict.

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Malinger

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To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill

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Misanthrope

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A person who dislikes others

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Obdurate

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Hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion

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Obsequious

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Overly submissive and eager to please

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Obviate

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To make unnecessary, to prevent

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Occlude

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To stop up, to prevent passage of

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

He defended himself against the slander and opprobrium hurled on him.

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Paragon

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A model of excellence or perfection

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Pedant

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Someone who shows off learning

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Perfunctory

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Done in a routine way, indifferent

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Perfidious

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Willing to betray ones trust

Michelle sought revenge on her perfidious friend who stole her lottery ticket.

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Prodigal

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Lavish, wasteful

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Propitiate

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To conciliate, to appease
After Bill forgot his wife’s birthday, he tried to propitiate the situation by purchasing her the pearl necklace she always wanted.

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Rarefy

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To make thinner, sparser

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Reticent

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Silent, reserved

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Rhetoric

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Effective writing or speaking

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive, seemingly attractive but fallacious

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Stigma

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Mark of shame or discredit

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Stolid

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Lacking sensitivity, unemotional

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Sublime

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Lofty or grand

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Taciturn

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Silent, not talkative

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Torpor

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Extreme mental and physical sluggishness

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Venerate

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To respect deeply

The Bible says we should venerate our parents and our elders.

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