Week 7 Flashcards

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Platitude

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A repeat

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Plait

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To braid

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Pliant

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Yielding

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Plucky

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Spunky

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Pneumatic

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Related to air

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Polemic

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An argument

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Polyglot

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Multilingual

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Pontificate

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To ramble

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Portent

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Omen

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Posterity

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Descendants

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Potable

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Drinkable

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Precept

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Law

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Precipitous

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Hasty

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Preclude

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Eliminate

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Predicate

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To base on

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Preeminent

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Celebrated or famous

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Preponderance

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Majority view

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Presage

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To fortell

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Prescient

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Have foresight

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Pretext

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An excuse

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Prevaricate

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To lie

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Privation

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Loss of wealth

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Probity

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Honesty

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Profligate

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Corrupt

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Profuse

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To lavish out

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Promontory

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High ground

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Promulgate

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To make famous

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Propensity

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Inclination

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Propitiate

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To win over

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Propitious

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Favorable

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Proponent

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Advocate of

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Prosaic

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Common

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Propinquity

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Nearness

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Proselytize

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To convert

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Protagonist

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Main character

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Protean

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Amorphous

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Prude

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Civil

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Prurient

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Lustful

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Puerile

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Childish

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Pugilism

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Boxing

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Pugnacious

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Quarrelsome

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Pulchritude

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Beauty

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Purport

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To claim

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Quandary

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A dilemma

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Quaternary

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4 units

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Quiescence

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Inactivity

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Quixotic

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Impractical

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Quotidian

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Daily

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Raconteur

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Witty

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Ramification

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Consequence