Vocabulary 4 Flashcards by Chinonso Elue

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Desolate

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empty, alone, left out

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Ostentation

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pretentious or showy outward display

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Curmudgeon

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a cranky and stubborn old person

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Frolic

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to play happily and boisterously

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Guile

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quality of being crafty and deceitful

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Piety

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righteousness or devotion to religious practices

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Perspicacious

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to be wise and discerning

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Fallibility

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the tendency to be wrong or make mistakes

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Preposterous

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ridiculous

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Idiosyncrasy

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a peculiar behavioral attribute

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Travail

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painful effort

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Mundane

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lacking excitement

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Reverie

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being pleasantly lost in thought

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Veritable

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an intensifier for a metaphor (true, real)

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Poignant

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evoking sadness or regret

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Impious

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someone without respect

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Latent

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something hidden that isn’t fully developed

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Solace

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comfort offered to someone who is miserable

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Renegade

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a person who betrays something, a rebel

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Quandary

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uncertainty of what to do