Week 5 Flashcards by Ghazaal Azin | Brainscape

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Acrimonious

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Caustic, bitter

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Admonish

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To scold, warn, reprove

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Clandestine

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Hidden, secret, undercover

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Concur

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To agree

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Construe

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To interpret, to make a deduction, to infer

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Culprit

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Guilty person, one who commits a crime

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Distraught

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Agitated, confused, upset

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Duplicity

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Double-dealing, cunning, trickery

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Duress

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Force, coercion, compulsion

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Egregious

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Outstanding for undesirable quality, remarkably bad

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Elicit

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To extract, to draw forth

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Ethics

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Moral philosophy, code of principles

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Flagrant

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Notorious, outrageous, glaringly bad

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Impunity

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Exemption, freedom from punishment

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Inane

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Silly, foolish

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Inexorable

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Cannot be moved by persuasion, inflexible, unrelenting

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Paucity

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Shortage, scarcity

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Pernicious

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Damaging, harmful, causing injury

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Rampant

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Going unchecked, widespread

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Tolerate

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To permit, to put up with, to bear