Vocabulary #12 Flashcards by Grace Henriksen | Brainscape

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Cull

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Select
Pick out
Choose

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Bellicose

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Inclined to fight or quarrel
Pugnacious
Warlike

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Demur

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Object

Take exception

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Divert

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Amuse
Entertain
Give pleasure to

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Equivocate

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Be deliberately ambiguous

Use misleading terms so as not to commit oneself

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Ingenuous

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Innocent and simple
Artless
Naive

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Mendacious

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Lying
Untrue
Deceitful

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Preen

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Dress up
Make oneself trim
Neaten up
Fuss in dressing

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Pusillanimous

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Lacking in courage
Cowardly
Timid

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Quagmire

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Wet, boggy ground that gives way under the foot

Difficult situation

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