Week 7 Flashcards by Jennifer Ban | Brainscape

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Tenacity

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Firmness of purpose

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Soporific

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Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep

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Lackadaisical

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Lacking enthusiasm/determination, lazy

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Quiescent

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Inactivity or dormancy

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Specious

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Plausible but actually wrong

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Perspicacious

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Insight to understanding things

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Escoteric

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Understood by only a small number of people

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Decadent

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Moral or cultural decline

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Deleterious

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Casing harm or damage

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Subversive

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Undermine power and authority

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Immutable

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Unchanging/unable to be changed

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Penurious

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Extremely poor

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Vacuous

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Lack of thought/intelligence, mindless

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Modicum

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Small quantity of a particular thing

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Confluence

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Merging, junction of two rivers

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Sophistry

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Using fallacy intending to deceive

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Fallacy

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A mistaken belief, unsound argument

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Impunity

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Exemption from punishment

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Cavalier

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Showing lack of proper concern, offhand