Vocabulary 2 Flashcards

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Fecklessness

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Weak, ineffective

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Incendiary

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Designed to cause a fire/ stir up conflict

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Tepid

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(Of a liquid) slightly warm or lukewarm

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Clangorous

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The continuous loud noise of something

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Impecunious

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Penniless

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Precocious

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Advanced for her age

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Assiduous

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Diligent

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Dissemble

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Conceal or disguise one’s true feelings

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Transgressions

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An offence, an act that goes against the law or code of conduct

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, obscure

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Hortatory

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Tending or aiming to exhort

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Exhort

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Strongly encourage someone to do something

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Insipid

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Lacking flavor, weak or tasteless

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Banal

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Something trivial

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prescient

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Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place

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Prolix

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(of speech or writing) using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy