word groups Flashcards

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respect

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ecomium, eulogize, lionize, panegyric

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disrespect

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aspersion, calumny, excoriate, execrate, gainsay, harangue, impudent, impugn, inveigh, obloquy, ogjurgate, opprobrium, pillory, remonstrate, reprove

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goodness

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auspicious, condign, copasetic, munificent, seraphic

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badness

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anathema, egregious, invidious, libidinous, ribald, scurrilous, sordid, turpitude

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true

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aphoristic, axiomatic, veritable, verisimilitude, veracious, incontrovertible, ingenuous, probity, unimpeachable

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false

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apocryphal, blandishment, equivocate, ersatz, mendacity, perfidious, prevaricate, prevarication, specious, spurious

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happy

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jocular, jocund, rapture, sanguine

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sad

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elegiac, lugubrious, plaintive, saturnine, threnody

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clear

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limpid, luculent, elucidate, pellucid

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unclear

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abstruse, arcane, esoteric, rarefied, recondite, roiled

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clean

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abultion, lavation

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unclean

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besmear, besmirched, bespatter, maculate, sordid

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generous

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largess, profligate, unstinting

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money grubbing

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acquisitive, avaricious, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, venal

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talkative

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bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, turgid, voluble

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nontalkative

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compendious, epigrammatic, laconic, pithy, taciturn

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harmful

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inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, pernicious

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healthful

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curative, salubrious, salutary, tonic

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soothing

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propitiate, slake

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agitating

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acerbate, bestir

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cowardly

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craven, dastardly, diffident, pusillanimous, poltroon, recreant, timorous

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bold

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effrontery, impertinent, impudent, temerity

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stubborn

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froward, implacable, inexorable, intransigent, obdurate, pertinacious, refractory, renitent, untoward

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yielding

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amenable, deferential, ductile, pliant

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growing

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accrete

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insincere

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blandish, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous

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sincere

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artless, credulous, guileless, ingenuous

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weak

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enervated, enfeebled, stultified, vitiated

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strong

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puissant, sinewy, tenacious

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hostile

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antithetical, bellicose, churlish, irascible, inimical, truculent

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hate

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abominate, anathema, odium, rancor, repugnance

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beginner

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callow, inchoate, incipient, novitiate, proselyte, tyro

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expert

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doyen, maven, swell

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bossy

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dogmatic, despotic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory

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lacky

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abject, fawning, lickspittle, obsequious, toady, truckler, sycophant

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lazy

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indolent, languid, lassitude, phlegmatic, quiescent, torpid

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forgive

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absolve, condone, exculpate, expiate, redress, remit

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poor

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beggard, esurient, impecunious, indigent, penurious, strapped

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bias

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doctrinaire, jaundiced, tendentious, zealot

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walking

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itinerant, perambulate, peripatetic

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blocking

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encumber, fetter, forfend, obviate, occlude

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nonconformist

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aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, bohemian, heterodox