Vocabulary In School - Part 2 Flashcards

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Apprehension (noun)

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Anxiety or fear about the future

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Contemporary

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Current, modern; from the same time period

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Egregious

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Constantly bad or offensive

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Endure (verb)

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To put up with; to survive a hardship

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Facetious

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Playfully humorous

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Farce (noun)

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Absurdly ridiculous situation

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Frantic

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Wildly excited or active

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Garrulous

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Given to excessiveness; rambling talk

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Gracious

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Given freely; unearned; unwarranted

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Impression

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A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience

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Insipid

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Uninteresting; unchallenging

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Listless

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Lacking energy; appearing lazy

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Misconception

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Incorrect understand or interpretation

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Panderous

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To cuter to the audience taste and desires of others inorder to exploit their weakness

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Pauity

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Fewness; an extreme lack of

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Ponderous

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Having great weight; massive

17
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Premonition

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feeling about the future

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Propriety

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Appropriateness of behavior

19
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Ruse

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A crafty trick

20
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Sedentary

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Not migratory; settled

21
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Slander

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False charges and malicious statements or reports about someone

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Sonorous

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Having or producing sound

23
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Soporific

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Causing sleep or sleepiness; boring

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Specious

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Having the ring of truth or possibility, but actually false

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Spontaneous

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Unplanned naturally occurring

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Squalor

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A filthy condition or quality

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Stupor

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A state of reduced sensibility

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Superfluous

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Extra; unnecessary

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Aquired

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Developed or learned; not naturally occurring