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Vocabulary Flashcards

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Paradigm definition

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Is an ideal or perfect model of something

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Tyrannical

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Tyrannical or despotic are not words to describe a person who holds the majority of the power and abuses it

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Discrete

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Discrete and separate are both words to describe things that are distinctive from one another

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Impervious

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Not letting things pass through or unaffected by something

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Morose

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I’ll tempered or sullen

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Pervasive

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Widely prevalent or extensive

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Seminal

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Original , innovated, and influential

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Terse

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Not using many words abrupt

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Umbrage

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Annoying or offense

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Cajole and wheedle

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Means to flatter someone in order to persuade them of something or get them to do something

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Spurn definition

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Reject someone completely

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Ancillary

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Provided second support or did to an operation or undertaking

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14
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Deciduous definition

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Plants are those which lose their leaves annually

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Diaphanous

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Gaudy

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Cupidity

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Avarice

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Germane

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Pertinent

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Banal

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Unoriginal and boring

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Nonplussed

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Surprised and bewildered

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Quagmire

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Swampy or marshy area

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Opine

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Means to declare to be one’s opinion

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Cursory

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Hasty and not thorough

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Misanthropic

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Hating humankind

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Pedagogy

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Teaching or the science of teaching

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Savant

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Person of extensive learning

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Exhume

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Take out of the earth

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Coalesce

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Unite

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Accolade

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An award or privilege granted

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Pragmatic

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Dealing with things sensibly and realistically

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Dolorous

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Feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress

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31
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Frangible

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Able to be broken into fragments

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32
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Saccharine

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Excessively sweet

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33
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Destitute

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Extremely poor

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34
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Oscillate

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Move or swing back and forth

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35
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Relegate

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To relegate is to demote or to assign to an inferior position

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36
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Precipitate

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Rushed,very sudden, overly hasty

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37
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Pittance

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A small amount of something

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38
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Viscous

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Thick and sticky

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39
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Macabre

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Means gruesome or ghastly

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40
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Nebulous

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Vague, Indistinct, or cloudy

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41
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Attenuate

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To weaken or make thin

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42
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Constituent

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A voter or a part of a whole

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43
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Diatribe

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An angry rant

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44
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Aplomb

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Self-confidence and poise

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace from shameful conduct

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Sterling

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Excellent or valuable

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Illustrious

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Well known, respected, and admired

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Bedeck

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To decorate or cover

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Ambivalent

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Have mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone

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Bromide

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A trite statement that is intended to soothe or placate

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Degeneracy

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The state or quality of being degenerate

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Inspid

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Lacking flavor, la king vigor or interests

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Incongruous

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Not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something

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Addled

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Unable to think clearly

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Jocund

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Cheerful and light hearted

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Saucy

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Having or expressing a bold lively or spirited manner

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Venture

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Risky business

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Dissident

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Trivial

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Slovenly

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Unclean or untidy in appearance

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Sedulous

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Spurious

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Clemency

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Turgid

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Taciturn

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Iniquity

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Equivocal

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Amble

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Forlorn

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Despondent

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Scourge

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Sanguine

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Invective

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Obfuscate

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To make something confusing

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Rivulet

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Small river

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Hamlet

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Little town

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Maudlin

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Overly sentimental

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Impecunious

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Extremely poor

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Pertinacious

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Adage

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Wise saying, proverb

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Assuage

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Relive or to ease

81
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Acquiesce

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Willy

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Vex

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Annoy or irritate

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Truncate

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Parity

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To mean equality

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Onerous

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Opulent

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Insolent

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Colleague

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Paragon

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Model or epitome

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Rescind

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Salient

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Significant

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Abase

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Volatile

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Craven

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Craven

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Replete

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Gamut

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Vignette

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Illustration

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Emaciated

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Abnormally thin

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Exodus

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Imbroglio

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Disagreement

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Sentinel

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Facetious

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Ecumenical

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Lapidary

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Autochthonous

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Indigenous

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Waggishly

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Joking around

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Ascetically

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Augur

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Fortune teller

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Harridan

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Alderperson

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Counciloerson

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