- False or spurious - questionable

- Concise; using few words - succinct - pithy

- one who dedicates their life to contemplative ideals - denies their self normal pleasures of life

- Advantageous - sense of self-interest

Vocabulary Geography Flashcards by Kathryn Respicio

Episode

Scene or incident

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Bombast

Speech too pompous/pretentious for an occasion

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Superfluous

Excessive

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Requisite

Required or necessary

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Apocryphal

False or spurious

- questionable

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Demarcations

Separation by distinct boundaries

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Idealistic

(Adj) to pursue high or noble goals

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Laconic

Concise; using few words
succinct
pithy

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Ascetic

one who dedicates their life to contemplative ideals

- denies their self normal pleasures of life

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Taciturn

Inclined to silence

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Tempestuous

Turbulent or tumultuous

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Eminent

Prominent, distinguishable

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Execrable

Detestable, abhorrent

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Expediency

Advantageous

- sense of self-interest

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Regency

Exercises the ruling power during the minority, absence or disability of a sovereign

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Obtuse

Not quick in perception, feeling or intellect

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Abominable

Repugnantly hateful; detestable

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Transient

Not enduring or permanent

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Incredulous

Skeptical; to show disbelief

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Stolidity

Not easily stirred; unemotional

Commensurate

Corresponding in amount or degree

Etiolated

To look sick and pale

- pallid

Intransigence

Refusing to compromise; inflexibility

Delineate

Depict or outline

- limn

Recast

Change; modify

Discomposure

Agitation Disorder Perturbation

Resolute

Determined | Set in opinion and purpose

Futile

Ineffective | Useless

Plight

Unfavorable or unfortunate situation

Ineluctable

Inescapable, certain, inevitable

Invidious

Calculated to create ill will or resentment

Plangent

Resounding loudly

Nugatory

Worthless; trifling

Contentious

Quarrelsome; characterized by controversy

Erudite

Characterized by great knowledge

Antediluvian

Old-fashioned, antiquated

Pusillanimous

Cowardly, lacking resolution

Jejune

Uninformed, immature

Imbibement

- to drink (alcohol) | - to absorb

Senescence

To grow old

Acrimonious

Stinging or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc.

Benignant

- Kind, beneficial | - Exerting good influence

Inure

To ACCUSTOM to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.

Facetious

Not to be taken literally or seriously

Impertinent

- intrusive, insolently rude, uncivil | - not relevant

Subservient

- subordinate - excessively submissive - obsequious

Tangent

- digression | - touching

Propagate

- to reproduce | - to transmit

Osculate

To come into close contact or union