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Vocabulary Upto May 31 Flashcards

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Sweetly or smoothly flowing

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Mellifluous

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Stinging or bitter in nature

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Acrimonious

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Alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry

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Meretricious

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Deserving of praise; laudable

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Meritorious

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Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference, fawning; obedient

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Obsequious

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To hold or express an opinion

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Opine

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A deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery

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Perfidy

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Causing insidious harm or ruin

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Pernicious

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Overly particular; fussy

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Persnickety

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Holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute; stubborn or obstinate

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Pertinacious

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Brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression

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Pithy

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Lacking courage or resolution; cowardly

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Pusillanimous

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Sarcastic

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Sardonic

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Arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown place

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Idiopathic

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A person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house

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Factotum

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Exuding fragrance; aromatic

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Redolent

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The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form

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Quintessence

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A society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding

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Dystopia

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Fierce; cruel; savagely brutal

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Truculent

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A person of degraded, primitive, or brutal character

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Troglodyte

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Characterized by friendship and good will

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Amicable

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Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time

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Anachronism

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Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits

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Boisterous

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Marked by rude or peremptory shortness

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Brusque

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Leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal

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Peremptory

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A difficult problem

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Conundrum

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Harmful to living things

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Deleterious

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A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices

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Demagogue

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Quietly and steadily persevering, especially in detail or exactness

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Diligent

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Soothing

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Demulcent

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