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Week 8 Flashcards

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Buoyancy

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relative lightness.

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Levity

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lightness of mind, character, or behavior

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Effervescence

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to show enthusiasm

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Ebullience

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High spirits

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Vivacious

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lively

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Equivocal

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open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.

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Ambiguous

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open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations

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Enigmatic

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Difficult to intemperate or understand

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cryptic

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mysterious in meaning; puzzling

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Inscrutable

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not easily understood

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Predisposition

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Act a particular way

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Predilection

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a tendency to think favorably of something

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Penchant

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A strong inclinations for something

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Propensity

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a natural inclination or tendency

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Proclivity

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Natural inclination or tendency

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Innate

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Inborn; natural

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Intuitive

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Instinctive

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Visceral

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Instinctive

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Nuance

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A subtle difference

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Connotation

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an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

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Innuendo

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an indirect intimation

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Insinuate

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Suggest or hint

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Somber

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gloomily dark

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Bleak

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Bare; desolate

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Dire

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causing or involving great fear or suffering

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Grim

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Stern; harsh

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Staid

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fixed; settled

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Arcane

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known or understood by very few

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Esoteric

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Only known by a few

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Byzantine

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Excessively complicated

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Recondite

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Little known

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Tortuous

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Not direct or straightforward

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Abstruse

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Hard to understand

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Convoluted

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complicated

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Provincial

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local

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Parochial

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Narrow-minded

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Myopic

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Narrow minded

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Bigoted

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Biased

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Insular

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Narrow-minded

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Conjecture

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an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.

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Extrapolation

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Educated guess

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Supposition

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Assumption

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Surmise

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A guess

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Wry

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Crooked

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Sardonic

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characterized as bitter

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Caustic

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Sarcastic

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Acerbic

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Harsh or severe

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Trenchant

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Vigorous in expression

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