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Vocabulary #6 Flashcards

1
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Conceited

A

Having an excessively favourable opinion of one’s abilities

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Wheedling

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To endeavour to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts:

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Sensibility

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Capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.

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Superlative (grammar)

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Relating to the highest degree of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, as smallest, best, and most carefully, the superlative forms of small, good, and carefully.

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Pugilism

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The art or practice of fighting with the fists; boxing.

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6
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Paucity

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Smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness:

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Meritocratic

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Based on ability and talent rather than class, privilege, or wealth

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Deposed

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Removed from office

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Incredulous

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Disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical

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Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere, especially at the same time

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Nefarious

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(Typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal.

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Expostulation

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To reason earnestly with someone against something they have done

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13
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Parley

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An informal conference between enemies under a truce

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Remonstrate

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To plead in protest; to present reasons in complaint

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Mendacious

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Telling lies

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Puritanism

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Being strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so.

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Epicurean

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Fond of or adapted to luxury or indulgence in sensual pleasures; having luxurious tastes or habits, especially in eating and drinking.

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Parity

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Equality

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Fiduciary

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A person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another

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Till

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To labour as by plowing or harrowing; to cultivate the soil

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Burgeoning

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Growing or developing quickly:

22
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Megalomania

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An obsession with doing extravagant or grand things.

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Soliloquy

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An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to themselves or is disregardful/oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character’s innermost thoughts)

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Exigent

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Requiring immediate action or aid; urgent; pressing.

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Visage

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The face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression etc.

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Wile

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Trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.

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Evanescence

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The quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly; impermanence

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Pied

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Having patches of two or more colours, as various birds and other animals:

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Gregarious

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Fond of the company of others; sociable.

30
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Libertine

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Free of moral, especially sexual, restraint; freethinking in religious matters.

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Squandered

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Wasteful or extravagant expenditure

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Avaricious

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Greedy

33
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Totemic

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Regarded as being symbolic or representative of a particular quality or concept.

34
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Contrived

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Deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously.

35
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Meliorism

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The doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.

36
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Anthropogenic

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Caused by humans

37
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Reproach

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To find fault with; blame

38
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Odium

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Intense hatred

39
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Nihilism

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Total rejection of established laws and institutions; anarchy

40
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Fastidious

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Excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please:

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Haphazard

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Characterised by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness

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Bipartisan

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Marked by or involving cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties

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Straiten

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To make narrow; to make difficult especially with regards to money

44
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Pilfer

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To steal

45
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Absolution

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A freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties

46
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Ephemeral

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Lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory

47
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Espouse

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Adopt, embrace, to make one’s own

48
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Intransigent

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Refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible

48
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Astuteness

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The quality of being particularly discerning, clever, cunning, or ingenious

49
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Writ

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Any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign’s name; something written

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