Week 3 Vocabulary Flashcards by N'sikan Kouassi-Brou

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Abstemious (adj)

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Characterized by abstinence

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Censurable (adj)

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Deserving censure, or blame

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Contingent (adj)

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Liable to happen or not

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Corroborate (verb)

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To make more certain, confirm

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Denizen (noun)

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A frequent visitor, inhabitant

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Discursive (adj)

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Proceeding by reasoning and argument

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Disseminate (verb)

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To scatter or spread widely

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Dowdy (adj)

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Not neat or tidy

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Florid (adj)

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Reddish, Rudy, Nosy

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Foist (verb)

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To force upon or impose

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Gauche (adj)

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Lacking social grace

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Heresy (noun)

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maintaining of an ideal

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Inculcate (verb)

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to implant by repeated statement

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Palpable (noun)

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readily or plainly seen

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Perceptive (adj)

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showing insight or keeness

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Pernicious (adj)

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causing insidious harm

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Salient (adj)

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prominent or conspicuous

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Satiate (verb)

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to satisfy to the full

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Sear (verb)

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to burn or char the surface of

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Specious (adj)

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deceptively pleasing to the eye