Week 11 Flashcards

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Derogative

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Expressed as worthless or in negative terms

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Disenfranchise

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Deprive of voting rights

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Evenhanded

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Without partiality

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Facetious

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Cleverly amusing in love

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Finagle

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Achieve something by means of trickery or devious merhods

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Flounder

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Behave awkwardly; have difficulties

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Genial

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Agreeable, conducive to comfort

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Glib

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(Of a person) speaking with ease but without sincerity

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Implícate

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Convey a meaning; imply

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Implícate

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To indicate in wrongdoing; usually a crime

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Impregnable

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Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

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Intermittent

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Stopping and starting at irregular intervals

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Irresolute

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Uncertain how to act or proceed

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Martial

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Suggesting war or military life

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15
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Misogynist

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A person that dislikes women in particular

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Moot

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Open to argument or debate; undecidable in a meaningless or irrelevant way

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Pastoral

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Relating to the countryside in a pleasant sense

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Pithy

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Concise and full of meaning

19
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Perquisite

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A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)

20
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Provisional

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Under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon

21
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Rakish

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Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness

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Reservation

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An unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly

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Savvy

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A perceptive understanding of

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Savvy

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Get the meaning of something