Word Groups Flashcards
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Abbreviated communication
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Abridge Compendium Cursory Curtail Syllabus Synopsis Terse
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Act quickly
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Abrupt Apace Headlong Impetuous Precipitate
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Assist
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Abet Advocate Ancillary Bolster Corroborate Countenance Espouse Mainstay Munificent Proponent Stalwart Sustenance
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Bad mood
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Bilious Dudgeon Irascible Perish Petulant Pique Querulous Umbrage Waspish
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Beginner/amateur
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Dilettante Fledgling Neophyte Novitiate Proselyte Tyro
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Beginning/young
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Burgeoning Callow Engender Inchoate Incipient Nascent
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Biting (as in wit or temperament)
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Acerbic Acidulous Acrimonious Asperity Caustic Mordacious Mordant Trenchant
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Bold
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Audacious
Courageous
Dauntless
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Boring
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Banal Fatuous Hackneyed Insipid Mundane Pedestrian Platitude Prosaic Quotidian Trite
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Carousel
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Bacchanalian Debauchery Depraved Dissipated Iniquity Libertine Libidinous Licentious Reprobate Ribald Salacious Sordid Turpitude
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Changing quickly
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Capricious
Mercurial
Volatile
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Copy
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Counterpart Emulate Facsimile Fictitious Paradigm Precursor Simulate Vicarious
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Criticize/criticism
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Asprsion Belittle Berate Calumny Castigate Decry Defame Denounce Deride Diatribe Disparage Excoriate Gabi say Harangue Impugn Inveigh Lambaste Objurgate Obloquy Opprobrium Pillory Rebuke Remonstrate Reprehend Re prove Revile Tirade Vituperate
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Death/mourning
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Bereave Cadaver Defunct Demise Dolorous Elegy Knell Lament Macabre Moribund Obsequies Sepulchral Wraith
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Denying of self
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Abnegate Abstain Ascetic Spartan Stoic Temperate
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Dictatorial
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Authoritarian Despotic Dogmatic Hegemonic Imperious Peremptory Tyrannical
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Difficult to understand
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Abstruse Ambiguous Arcane Bemusing Cryptic Enigmatic Esoteric Inscrutable Obscure Opaque Paradoxical Perplexing Recondite Turbid
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Disgusting/offensive
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Defile Fetid Invidious Noisome Odious Putrid Rebarbative
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Easy to understand
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Articulate Cogent Eloquent Evident Limpid Lucid Pellucid
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Eccentric/dissimilar
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Aberrant Anachronism Anomalous Discrete Eclectic Esoteric Iconoclast
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Embarrass
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Abash Chagrin Compunction Contrition Diffidence Expiate Foible Gaucherie Rue
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Equal
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Equitable
Equity
Tantamount
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Falsehood
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Apocryphal Canard Chicanery Dissemble Duplicity Equivocate Erroneous Ersatz Fallacious Feigned Guile Mendacious Perfidy Prevaricate Specious Spurious
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Family
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Conjugal Consanguine Distaff Endogenous Filial Fraternal Fratricide Progenitor Scion Sorority
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Favoring/not impartial
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Ardent
Doctrinaire
Fervid
Partisan
Tendentious
Zealot
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Forgive/make amends
```
Absolve
Acquit
Exculpatory
Exonerate
Expiate
Palliate
Redress
Vindicate
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Funny
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Chortle
Droll
Facetious
Flippant
Give
Jocular
Levity
Ludicrous
Raillery
Riposte
Simper
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Gaps/openings
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Abatement
Aperture
Fissure
Hiatus
Interregnum
Interstice
Lull
Office
Rent
Respite
Rift
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Generous/kind
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Altruistic
Beneficent
Clement
Largess
Magnanimous
Munificent
Philanthropic
Unstinting
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Greedy
```
Avaricious
Covetous
Mercenary
Miserly
Penurious
Rapacious
Venal
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Hard-hearted
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Asperity
Baleful
Dour
Fell
Malevolent
Mordant
Sardonic
Scathing
Truculent
Vitriolic
Vituperation
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Harmful
```
Deleterious
Inimical
Injurious
Insidious
Minatory
Perfidious
Pernicious
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Harsh sounding
```
Cacophony
Din
Dissonant
Raucous
Strident
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Hatred
```
Abhorrence
Anathema
Antagonism
Antipathy
Detestation
Enmity
Loathing
Malice
Odium
Rancor
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Healthy
Beneficial
Salubrious
Salutary
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Hesitate
```
Dither
Oscillate
Teeter
Vacillate
Waver
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Hostile
```
Antithetical
Churlish
Curmudgeon
Irascible
Malevolent
Misanthropic
Truculent
Vindictive
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Innocent
```
Credulous
Gullible
Ingenuous
Naive
Novitiate
Tyro
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Insincere
```
Disingenuous
Dissemble
Fulsome
Ostensible
Unctuous
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Investigate
```
Appraise
Ascertain
Assay
Describe
Peruse
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Lazy/sluggish
```
Indolent
Inert
Lackadaisical
Languid
Lassitude
Lethargic
Phlegmatic
Quiescent
Slothful
Torpid
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Luck
```
Adventitious
Amulet
Auspicious
Fortuitous
Kismet
Optimum
Portentous
Propitiate
Propitious
Providential
Serendipity
Talisman
```
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Nag
```
Admonish
Belabor
Cavil
Enjoin
Exhort
Harangue
Hector
Martinet
Remonstrate
Reproof
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Nasty
Fetid
Noisome
Noxious
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Not a straight line
```
Askance
Awry
Careen
Carom
Circuitous
Circumvent
Gyrate
Labyrinth
Meander
Oblique
Serrated
Sidle
Sinuous
Undulating
Vortex
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Overblown/wordy
```
Bombastic
Circumlocution
Garrulous
Grandiloquent
Loquacious
Periphrastic
Prolix
Rhetoric
Turgid
Verbose
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Pacify/satisfy
```
Ameliorate
Appease
Assuage
Defer
Mitigate
Mollify
Placate
Propitiate
Satiate
Slake
Soothe
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Pleasant sounding
Euphonious
Harmonious
Melodious
Sonorous
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Poor
Destitute
Esurient
Impecunious
Indigent
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Praise
```
Acclaim
Accolade
Aggrandize
Encomium
Eulogized
Extol
Fawn
Laud
Venerate
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Predict
```
Augur
Auspice
Fey
Harbinger
Portentous
Precursor
Presage
Prescient
Prognosticate
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Prevent/obstruct
```
Discomfit
Encumber
Fetter
Forfend
Hinder
Impede
Inhibit
Occlude
```
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Smart/learned
Astute
Canny
Erudite
Perspicacious
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Sorrow
```
Disconsolate
Doleful
Dolor
Elegiac
Forlorn
Lamen
Lugubrious
Melancholy
Morose
Plaintive
Threnody
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Stubborn
```
Implacable
Inexorable
Intractable
Intransigent
Obdurate
Obstinate
Recalcitrant
Refractory
Reunite the
Untoward
Vexing
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Terse
```
Compendious
Curt
Laconic
Pithy
Succinct
Taciturn
```
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Time/order/duration
```
Anachronism
Antecedent
Antedate
Anterior
Archaic
Diurnal
Eon
Ephemeral
Epoch
Fortnight
Millennium
Penultimate
Synchronous
Temporal
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Timid
```
Craven
Diffident
Pusillanimous
Recreation
Timorous
Trepidation
```
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Truth
```
Candor
Fealty
Frankness
Indisputable
Indubitable
Legitimate
Probity
Sincere
Veracious
Verity
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Unusual
Aberration
Anomaly
Iconoclast
Idiosyncrasy
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Walking about
Ambulatory
Itinerant
Meander
Peripatetic
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Wandering
```
Discursive
Expatiate
Forage
Itinerant
Peregrinations
Peripatetic
Sojourn
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Weaken
```
Adulterated
Enervate
Exacerbate
Inhibit
Obviate
Stultify
Undermine
Vitiate
```
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Wisdom
```
Adage
Aphorism
Apothem
Axiom
Bromide
Dictum
Epigram
Platitude
Sententious
Truism
```
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Withdrawal/retreat
```
Abeyance
Abjure
Abnegation
Abortive
Abrogate
Decamp
Demur
Recant
Recidivism
Remission
Renege
Rescind
Retrograde
```