Vocabs Flashcards

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Capricious

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Inconsistent

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Thrift Parsimonious Penurious

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Person who collects wealth and spends very little

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Thrive, boom, mushroom( verb), sprout

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A small group within a larger group whose member disagree with some of the belief of the larger group Adj: factious - causing disagreement

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Quick, active or lively

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Gullible | Easily persuade

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A faith, credo

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Duress, compulsion by threat, intimidate

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Dour, sulky, resentful, gloomy

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Debase, Defame, defile, tarnish, blemish, mar, blotch, stigma A: adorn

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Faulty or inadequate nutrition or development

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Blithe, facetious, comical, amusing

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Simplistic and lacking careful thoughts | Impetuous( rough lacking though)

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Strongly abusive or critical language | S: epithet

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Persuade someone to do something by deception or flattery

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Using few words; abrupt When such expression is used Epigram

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Pleasant-sounding term for something unpleasant

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Pleasant sounding words

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Hand over (person accused of crime) to state where crime was committed

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Consent, consensus

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Producing many offspring or product | Proliferate

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A feeling of intense happiness

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Praise someone highly The speech or writing of this Eulogy

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Confer, grant

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Have a leg on either side of something | Tense: bestrode bestridden

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To steal money placed in ones trust | S: defalcation

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(Of price) unreasonably high

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Officially state that someone has NOT done something wrong or illegal A: allege Similar: alibi

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Gradually spread through or over | Her cheeks were suffused with color

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Offspring, descendant

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Person who believes the existence of God is not provable

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Outburst of criticism

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Money given for good service

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Affecting Virtues and qualities one does not have | Hypocrite, hypocrisy ( claiming to have higher moral standards than actually do)

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Formation of opinion on incomplete information

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hopeless, contemptible, Wretched, forlorn, downtrodden, beggarly

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Sad or lacking

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Fawning(flattering), excessive obedient

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Surprised and confused and not knowing how to react

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Unrivaled, better than anyone or anything

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Involved with others in an unlawful activity | The militant group may be complicit in ten violent incidents

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Cancel or end an agreement

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Swear to give up a belief or claim

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Solemnly urge someone to do something

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Adjudged, make formal judgment

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Using ideas from a wide variety if sources | He thrived on an eclectic diet of classical and jazz

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Brilliant or successful effect | A few of the men landed with the same éclat as their leader

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Humor, frivolity , gaiety

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Not serious or responsible

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``` Rebuke Condemn Censure Reprimand Denounce Remonstrate Reproof ```

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Mourn, grieve, wail, woe

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Feeling sorrow, regret and guilty | S: penitent, repent, remorse

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Indifference

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Indifference due to disapproval

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Severely critical

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(Of young person) inexperience and immature

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The importance or reputation gained by a person as a result of their ability and achievements An architect of international stature

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To discipline, castigate | Result: chaste, descent

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Haste and superficial

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Easily seen or noticed

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Fortuitous, favourable

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Firmly and long established; habitual

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Very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect

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Undesirable or disordered condition

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People are only interested in themselves; not sincere

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Everyone is selfish

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Intended to entrap or beguile

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Agree to a demand or request

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Declaring public approval of someone or something

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Forewarning, presentiment

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Feel Sorrow and guilty Contrite Remorse Repent

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Shrewd, astute

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Extremely unpleasant | Proscribe

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Reach a climax | The protest culminated in a mass rally at the town hall

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Differential, deep respect

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Agree to a demand or request

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Ample, abounding, abundant,

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Wordy, bombastic, grandiloquent, loquacious, prolixity

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Say ver little | Uncommunicative

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(Of a change to a worse situation) sudden and dramatic

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(Of child) having developed certain abilities or behaviours at an early age

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Charm or trick someone | S: insidious, entrap

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To justify

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Showing deep hopelessness, discouragement, dejection

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Prodigal, profligate

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Avoid giving a direct answer to a question

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Using few words | S: taciturn

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Very generous

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Try to obtain something from someone

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Crowd or large area inside a public building

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Sharp witty reply

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Good and honest behaviour

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Great courage in face of danger

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Something out of place in time | S: antediluvian, archaic (old fashion)

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To reduce in force or degree

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Intense passionate feeling

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To judge a dispute between two opposing parties

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Persuasive and moving

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Indicating a good chance of success | It was a propitious movement for a global telephone network

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Avoid giving direct answer to question

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To prevent the passage of A shadow is thrown across the earth's surface during a solar eclipse, when the light from the sun is occluded by the moon

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Indifferent, slow and sluggish | S: callous

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Plunder, pillage, extort

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Excessive, exorbitant

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Appease, conciliate, placate, pacify

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Public disgrace

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Willing to betray one's trust

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To stop or prevent the passage of

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To remove, take away a vital and essential part

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Unselfish, concern for others

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To grovel; humble in order to gain forgiveness

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Merciful in disposition, lenient, compassionate

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Penitence, repent, remorse, regret

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Out of date

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Deliberately avoid doing or being involved | S: forwent

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Ignore or reject someone scornfully

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Butting and abusive language

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Outstandingly bad

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Contention

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Disagreement

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Judgment that a person is not guilty

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Unwilling to accept defeat or stop doing something

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Mysterious

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Greedy,cupidity, rapacious, venal, covetous, mercenary, penurious, voracious

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The act of not telling the truth

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Avid, crave, gluttonous

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Plunder, extort, predation, rob

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Excessive, unrestrained, uncontrolled, irregular

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State of uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation

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Attractively unusual or old fashioned

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( of bad or difficult situation) severe or intense degree Having or showing a perceptive understanding or insight

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To read with thoroughness or care

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Resolute, purposeful, determind

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Completely harmful

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Avoid something cleverly or illegally

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Meticulous, circumspect

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To encourage | A: spurn: reject with disdain

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Scathing, acerbic

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Appropriate as a purpose

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Abstruse, not easily understood

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Having little substance

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Proportionate, appease, mitigate, mollify, placate

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Placate, win over

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Prudent, , wary, judicious(smart), meticulous, punctilious, sagacious(smart), scrupulous, vigilant A: audacious, bold, careless, rash, unheedful, reckless

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Peevish, irritable, agitated

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(Of acts consider bad) Done in open obvious and unashamed way A blatant abuse of human rights S: flagrant, scandalous

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Ordinary,mundane (not exciting), humdrum(dull)

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Straightforward, outspoken, decisive

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To give up

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Strong abusive word

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Submissive

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To make joyful or proud

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Anomaly, irregularity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Worship/ treat as god like

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Deceptively attractive

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Annul, declaring void/ invalid

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Infamous, sinful, evil

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Unpleasant & humiliating

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Very sorry, repent, penitent

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Impudent, disrespectful boldness

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Given freely

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Give up a belief or claim