Vocabulary Flashcards

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Cursory

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Quick glance

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Resolve

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Determination

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Reconcile

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Reestablish relations

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Brazen

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To be negatively bold

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Mortified

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Deeply embarrassed

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Hail

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Call

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Poignant

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Emotionally moving

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Profound

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Provokingly deep in thought

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Ultimatum

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Final offer

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Avarice

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Greed

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Expugated

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Remove all obscene things from a work

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Indifferent

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Unbiased

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Hindsight

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To know know something after its happened, to look back

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Altruistic

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Selfless

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Orator

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Skilled speech maker

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Exalted

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To be praised or up lifted

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Grapple

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Wrestle

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Loath

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Reluctant

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Inevitable

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Bound to happen

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Sundry

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Various; miscellaneous

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Succor

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To aid

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Solace

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A source of comfort

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Archaic

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Belonging to a much earlier time

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Lamentable

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Regrettable

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Melancholy
Sadness
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Haughty
Arrogant
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Anecdote
A short account of an event
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Loathe
To despise or hate
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Chide
To scold
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Bereft
Deprived of; lacking
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Assertion
A statement that declares a position on some issue or tooic
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Adversary
Opponent
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Avert
To prevent; to turn away
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Formidable
Challenging
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Implement (noun)
A tool
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Implement (verb)
To use
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Implore
To beg
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Indulge
To allow
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Insidious
Sly; sneaky
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Inviolate
Uncorrupted
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Martial
Warlike
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Prostrate
To lie face downward
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Remonstrate
To protest
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Revere
To respect
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Sentiment
Feeling or opinion
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Spurn
To reject
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Subjugate
To enslave
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Supplication
Plea; prayer
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Vain
Excessively proud of ones looks
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Vain
Useless
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Vigilant
Watchful
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Redirect
Give a speech; persuasion
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Magnanimous
Generous
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Assertion
A statement that declares a position on some issue or tooic
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Adversary
Opponent
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Avert
To prevent; to turn away
57
Formidable
Challenging
58
Implement (noun)
A tool
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Implement (verb)
To use
60
Implore
To beg
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Indulge
To allow
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Insidious
Sly; sneaky
63
Inviolate
Uncorrupted
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Martial
Warlike
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Prostrate
To lie face downward
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Remonstrate
To protest
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Revere
To respect
68
Sentiment
Feeling or opinion
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Spurn
To reject
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Subjugate
To enslave
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Supplication
Plea; prayer
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Vain
Excessively proud of ones looks
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Vain
Useless
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Vigilant
Watchful
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Redirect
Give a speech; persuasion
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Magnanimous
Generous