Williams words 2 Flashcards

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Duplicity

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Deceitfulness

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Sumptuousness

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Luxurious

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Row

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A fight

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4
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Accord

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Harmony

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5
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Vindicate

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To clear from blame

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6
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Pedantry/scrupulousness

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Excessive concern with minor details

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7
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Inure

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To become accustomed to (especially something unpleasant)

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8
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Vilifying

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Speak disparagingly

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9
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Apocryphal

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Spurious/false although widely circulated

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10
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Impute

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To attribute

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11
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Austere

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Severe/strict

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12
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Primordial

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Primitive, old

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13
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Denouement

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Final outcome

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14
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Modish

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Fashionable

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Refractory, obstreperous, recalcitrant, intransigent

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Stubborn, refusal to change ones view

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Philistine

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Anti culture and arts

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Specious

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Misleading, superficially plausible but wrong

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Inculcate

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To Instill

19
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Blinkered/parochial

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Narrow-minded

20
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Quintessence

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Examplar of the perfect quality

21
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Ineluctable

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Unavoidable, inevitable (elusive meaning hard to find)

22
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Ingenuous

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Innocent genuine

23
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Inveigh

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To write/speak with hostility, vilify, disparage

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Levy

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Soporific
Sleep inducing
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Redound
To have an effect
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Amortise
To reduce/ pay off debt
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Peripatetic
Wandering (travelling from place to place m)
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Postliminary
Subsequent
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Ineffable
Inexpressible to great extremes
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Maladroit
Inept, incompetent, adroit means clever and skilful using the hands or mind.