Week5 Flashcards by tassanee chinchalongporn | Brainscape

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Expedient

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Appropriate to a purpose
Speedy
Convenient

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Brevity

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Briefness

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Transient

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Passing quickly in time or space

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Augment

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To make greater

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Bolster

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To hearten, support or prop up

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Burgeon

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To grow and flourish

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Copious

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Plentiful

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Distend

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To swell out or expand from internal pressure

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Grandiose

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Grand

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Prodigious

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Enormous

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Profundity

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Great depth of intellect,feeling or meaning

ความคิดลึกซึ้ง

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Redouble

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To make twice as great

To double

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Scintillating

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Brilliant

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Averse

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Strongly disinclined
คัดค้าน
ไม่ชอบ
รังเกียจ

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Conspicuous

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Easy to notice

Obvious

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Demure

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Modest and reserved

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Diffidence

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Timidity or shyness

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Docile

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Submissive to instruction

Willing to be taught

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Placid

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Calm or quiet

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Quiescent

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Quiet, still or at rest

Inactive

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Concord

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Agreement

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Concur

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To agree

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Dogmatic

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Stubbornly attached to insufficiently proven beliefs

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Fastidious

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Carefully attentive to detail

Difficult to please

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Intransigence

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Refusal to moderate a position or to compromise

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Jocular

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Characterised by or given to joking

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Meticulous

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Extremely careful and precise

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Affable

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Easy-going

Friendly

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Alacrity

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Promptness in response
Cheerful readiness
Eagerness

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Amiable

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Friendly
Agreeable
Good-natured

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Benign

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Kind and gentle

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Sanguine

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Cheerfully confident

Optimistic

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Belligerent

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Eager to fight

Aggressive

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Byzantine

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Extremely complicated

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Cantankerous

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Ill-tempted and quarrelsome
Disagreeable
ซึ่งชอบทะเลาะวิวาท

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome

ซึ่งชอบทะเลาะวิวาท

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Deleterious

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Having a harmful effect

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Exacerbate

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ทำให้แย่ลง

ทำให้รุนแรงขึ้น

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Flippant

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ทะลึ่งทะเล้น
ไร้มารยาท
Disrespectfully humorous or casual

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Insolent

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Insulting in manner or speech

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Nefarious

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ชั่วร้าย

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Pernicious

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Extremely or irrevocably harmful
Deadly
เป็นอันตราย

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Rancorous

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ขมขื่น

เจ็บใจ

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Repugnant

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น่ารังเกียจ

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Tawdry

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Gaudy and cheap

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Arboreal

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เกี่ยวกับต้นไม้

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Invocation

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คำขอร้อง

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Stratify

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แบ่งเป็นชั้นๆ

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Variegated

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Varicoloured

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Verdant

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เขียวขจี