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Vocabulary Study 2 Flashcards

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Aloof

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Definition: apart
Synonyms: detached, incurious, unconcerned

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Affable

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Definition: friendly, courteous
Synonyms: cordial, genial, gracious, sociable

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Aversion

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Definition: strong disinclination, disliking
Synonyms: hesitance, loathing, reluctance

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Banal

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Definition: common, ordinary, lacking freshness, hackneyed
Synonyms: inane, insipid, jejune, vapid

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Capricious

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Definition: changing suddenly, fickle
Synonyms: inconstant, mercurial, unstable

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Contrite

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Definition: extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant
Synonyms: penitent

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Dawdle

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Definition: to waste time, to spend time idly, to move in a lackadaisical manner
Synonyms: dally, loiter, procrastinate

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Debilitate

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Definition: to weaken, to enfeeble, to sap energy

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Disparage

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Definition: to degrade, to speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner
Synonyms: belittle, decry, deprecate

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Dogmatic

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Definition: strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner
Synonyms: dictatorial, doctrinaire, magisterial, oracular

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Fastidious

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Definition: reflecting a meticulous or demanding attitude, critical to an extreme
Synonyms: finicky

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Irascible

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Definition: irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross
Synonyms: bearish, cantankerous, choleric, peevish, petulant, testy

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Laud

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Definition: to praise, to extol
Synonyms: revere

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Opaque

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Definition: not allowing the passage of light, not transparent; hard to understand
Synonyms: dark

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Ostentatious

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Definition: showy, pretentious
Synonyms: pompous

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Prodigal

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Definition: wasteful, a person given to extravagance
Synonyms: lavish, lush, luxuriant, profuse

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Prolific

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Definition: abundantly fruitful, marked by great productivity
Synonyms: fecund, fertile

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Reticent

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Definition: restrained in speech, reluctant to speak
Synonyms: reserve, taciturnly

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Servile

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Definition: overly submissive
Synonyms: obsequious, slavish, subservient

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Superfluous

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Definition: beyond what is needed or required, an overflow
Synonyms: abounding, exorbitant, inordinate, profuse, surplus

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