Vocabulary # 2 Flashcards
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Appropriate to familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal
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colloquial
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Dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical
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Clinical
2
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showing sympathy or concern
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compassionate
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showing patronizing superiority
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condescending
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showing scorn and distain
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contemptuous
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quarrelsome
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contentious
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Distrusting; Pessimistic
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cynical
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Showing open resistance or bold disobedience
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Defiant
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Impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased
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Detached
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Intended for instruction
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Didactic
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Free from or unaffected by passion
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Dispassionate
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Serious in intention or purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous
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Earnest
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Unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve
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Effusive
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Expressing sorrow or lamentation
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Elegiac
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Perplexing; mysterious
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Enigmatic
