Vocabulary 10 Flashcards

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Aspire

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To have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly, to ascend

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Adept

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Thoroughly skilled, an expert

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Bleak

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Bare, dreary, dismal

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Chide

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To blame, scold

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Despicable

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Worthy of scorn, contemptible

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Diminutive

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Small, smaller than most others of the same type

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Emancipate

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To free from slavery, to release , liberate

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Erroneous

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Incorrect, containing mistakes

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Exploit

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To make use of, develop, to make improper use of for personal profit, a feat deed

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Extemporaneous

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Made or delivered on the spit of the moment

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Impair

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To make imperfect, damage, harm

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Invincible

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Not able to be defeated, unbeatable

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Languid

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Drooping, without energy, sluggish

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Mire

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Mud, wet, swampy ground, a tough situation, to get stuck

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Obtrusive

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Forward, undesirably prominent, thrust out

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Preamble

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An introduction to a speech or piece of writing

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Render

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To cause to become to perform, to deliver officially, to process, extract

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Rugged

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Rough, irregular, severe, stern, strong, stormy

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Skeptical

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Inclined to doubt, slow to accept something as true

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Slipshod

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Untidy in dress, personal habits, etc, careless sloppy