Vocabulary Flashcards by G B | Brainscape

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Fey

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Magical

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Quotidian

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Daily, everyday

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Gay

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Happy, cheery, or homosexual

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Pervasive

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Inclined to spread throughout

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Douse

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Drench, saturate

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Pliable

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Flexible, bendable

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Neologism

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The creation of new words or a new word

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Commendable

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Worthy of praise

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Profuse

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Abundant, lavish, prolific

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Abundant

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In great numbers

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Radiant

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Bright beaming

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Fecund

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Fertile fruitful

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Forestall

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To delay, impede

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Poach

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To hunt or fish illegally

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Fetter

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To restrain, chain, tie

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Figurative

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Symbolic

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Myriad

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Many, great numbers

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Plethora

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A great number, an abundance

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Sacrosanct

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Holy, sacred

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Fabricate

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To invent, make up, concoct

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Facile

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Easy

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Fatuous

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Silly, foolish

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Perfunctory

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Showing little enthusiasm, done as duty

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Mandatory

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Required, not optional

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Flaccid

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Limp

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Flabbergasted

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Astounded, stupefied

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Forage

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To rummage, scavenge, graze for food

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Licentious

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Immoral, lewd

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Lewd

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Vulgar, offensive, rude

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Profane

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Indecent, blasphemous

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Fortuitous

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Lucky, occurring by chance

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Serendipity

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The act of finding things not sought, luck

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Abrogate

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To abolish, often by authority

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Algid

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Frigid, cold

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Brutal

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Wintry, relating to winter

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Hiemal

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Wintry, relating to winter

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Impecunious

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Excessively poor

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Hapless

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Unlucky

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Hiatus

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An interruption in continuity, a break

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Gregarious

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Sociable, outgoing

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Inquisitor

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Someone who asks questions or makes an inquiry

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Iniquity

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Wicked act, sin

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Goad

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To urge, provoke

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Ingenious

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Marked by special intelligence

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Subsist

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To live, exist

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Notoriety

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Infamy, known in bad regard

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Blandish

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To coax through flattery

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Flattery

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Compliments, sycophancy

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Neonate

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A newborn baby

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Incessant

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Without interruption

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Narrate

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To tell a story

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Flout

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To scorn, ignore, show contempt for

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Pedagogue

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A schoolteacher

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Buffet

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To hit or strike