Word 5 Flashcards
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Pedantic: ostentatious in one’s learning
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overly concerned with minute details or
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formalisms, esp. in teaching
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Penitent: feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or
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wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and
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amendment
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repentant
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Pensive: dreamily or wistfully thoughtful
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expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually
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marked by some sadness
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Pessimistic: expecting the worst possible
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outcome
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Petty: of little or no importance or
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consequence
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Pitiful
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0.6
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Quiet
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Questioning: characterised by or indicating
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intellectual curiosity
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inquiring
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Reassuring: to restore to assurance or confidence
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Rebellious
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Recalcitrant: resisting authority or control
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not
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obedient or compliant
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refractory
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Reflective: given to, marked by, or concerned with
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meditation or deliberation
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Relaxed: being free of or relieved from tension or
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anxiety
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CLE OF ACADI
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Placid: pleasantly calm or peaceful
unruffled
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tranquil
serenely quiet or undisturbed
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Playful: pleasantly humorous or jesting
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Poignant: keenly distressing to the feelings
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keen or strong in mental appeal
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Pompous: characterised by an ostentatious
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display of dignity or importance
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Powerful: having or exerting great power or
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force
potent
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Pretentious: characterised by assumption of
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dignity or importance
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Proud: feeling pleasure or satisfaction over
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something regarded as highly honourable or
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creditable to oneself
having or showing self-
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respect or self-esteem
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Provocative: serving or tending to provoke,
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excite, or stimulate
tending or serving to
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provoke
inciting, stimulating, irritating, or
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vexing
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Psychotic: affected by psychosis
characterised
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by a loss of contact with reality and an
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inability to think rationally. A psychotic
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person often behaves inappropriately and is
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incapable of normal social functioning
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Reminiscent: awakening memories of something
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similar
suggestive
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Resigned: submissive or acquiescent
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Respectful: full of, characterised by, or showing
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politeness or deference
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Restrained: To hold back or keep in check
control
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Reticent: disposed to be silent or not to speak
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freely
reserved
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Reverent: deeply respectful
showing great esteem
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Ridiculous: causing or worthy of ridicule or
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derision
absurd
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Righteous: believing ones-self to be morally right
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and just
guiltless
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Risible: causing or capable of causing laughter
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laughable
ludicrous
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Romantic: characterised by a preoccupation with
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love or by the idealising of love or one's beloved
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imbued with or dominated by idealism, a desire for
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adventure, chivalry, etc
