Vocabulary 3 Flashcards

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Adamant

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Inflexible, not willing to change an opinion or decision

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Impasse

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A deadlock

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Expatiate

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To speak or write in length or in detail

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Fiat

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An official order that must be followed

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Vituperation

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Harsh and angry criticism

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Factotum

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A person who’s job includes doing different types of work

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Perspicacity

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The quality of having keen insight

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Enervate

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To weaken

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Vapid

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Not interesting or lively

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Vicarious

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Experienced or felt through another, second-hand experience

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Importune

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To ask or do something in a pressing and persistent way

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Vacillate

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To be indecisive

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Vagary

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An erratic or unpredictable action

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Stolid

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Showing little or no emotion

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Prodigious

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Amazing or wonderful

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Fatuous

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Silly; not hurting anyone; just joking

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Facetious

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joking in a sarcastic way

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Sardonic

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Joking in a mean way that can be hurtful

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Abhor

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To hate or detest very much

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Salient

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Very important or noticeable