Word Groups 1 (E-K) Flashcards

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impetuous

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act quickly

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espouse

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assist

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irascible

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bad mood

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4
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fledgling

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beginner/amateur

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engender, inchoate, incipient

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beginning/young

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fatuous, hackneyed, insipid

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boring

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iniquity

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carousal (binge)

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emulate, facsimile, factitious

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copy

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excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh

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criticize/criticism

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elegy, knell

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death/mourning

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hegemonic, imperious

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dictatorial

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enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable

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difficult to understand

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fetid, invidious

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disgusting/offensive

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eloquent, evident

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easy to understand

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eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast

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eccentric/dissimilar

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expiate, foible, gaucherie

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embarrass

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equitable, equity

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equal

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equivocate, erroneous, ersatz

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falsehood

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fallacious, feigned, guile

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falsehood

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endogamous, filial, fratricide

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family

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fervid

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favoring/not impartial

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exculpate, exonerate, expiate

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forgive

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facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular

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funny

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fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice

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gaps/openings

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fell

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hard-hearted

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inimical, injurious, insidious

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harmful

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enmity

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hatred

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irascible

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hostile

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gullible, ingenuous

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innocent/inexperienced

30
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fulsome

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insincere

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indolent, inert

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lazy/sluggish

32
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fortuitous, kismet

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luck

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enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector

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nag

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fetid

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nasty

35
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gyrate

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not a straight line

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garrulous, grandiloquent

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overblown

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euphonious, harmonious

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pleasant-sounding

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esurient, impecunious, indigent

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poor

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encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn

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praise

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fey, harbinger

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predict

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encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit

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prevent/obstruct

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erudite

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smart/learned

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elegiac, forlorn

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sorrow

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implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent

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stubborn

45
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eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight

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time/order/duration

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fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable

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truth

47
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iconoclast, idiosyncrasy

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unusual

48
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itinerant

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walking about

49
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expatiate, forage, itinerant

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wandering

50
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enervate, exacerbate, inhibit

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weaken

51
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epigram

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wisdom