Word Groups Flashcards
1
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Abbreviated communication (7)
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- abridge
- compendium
- cursory
- curtail
- syllabus
- synopsis
- terse
2
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Act Quickly (5)
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- abrupt
- apace
- headlong
- impetuous
- precipitate
3
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Assist (12)
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- abet
- advocate
- ancillary
- bilster
- corroborate
- countenance
- espouse
- mainstay
- munificent
- proponent
- stalwart
- sustenance
4
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Bad Mood (9)
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- bilious
- dudgeon
- irascible
- pettish
- petulant
- pique
- querulous
- umbrage
- waspish
5
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Beginner/Amateur (6)
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- dilettante
- fledging
- neophyte
- novitiate
- proselyte
- tyro
6
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Beginning/ Young (6)
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- burgeoning
- callow
- engender
- inchoate
- incipient
- nascent
7
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Biting (as in wit or temperament) (8)
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- acerbic
- acidulous
- acrimonious
- asperity
- caustic
- mordacious
- mordant
- trenchant
8
Q
Bold (3)
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- audacious
- courageous
- dauntless
9
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Boring (9)
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- banal
- hackneyed
- insipid
- mundane
- pedestrian
- platitude
- prosaic
- quotidian
- trite
10
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Carousal (a noisy or drunken feast or social gathering) (13)
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- bacchanalian
- debauchery
- depraved
- dissipated
- iniquity
- libertine
- libidinous
- licentious
- reprobate
- ribald
- salacious
- sordid
- turpitude
11
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Changing Quickly (3)
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- capricious
- mercurial
- volatile
12
Q
Copy (8)
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- counterpart
- emulate
- facsimile
- factitious
- paradigm
- precursor
- simulate
- vicarious
13
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Criticize/Criticism (25)
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- aspersion
- calumny
- castigate
- decry
- denounce
- deride/derisive
- diatribe
- disparage
- excoriate
- gainsay
- harangue
- impugn
- inveigh
- lambaste
- objurgate
- obloquy
- opprobrium
- pillory
- rebuje
- remonstrate
- reprehend
- reprove
- revile
- tirade
- vituperate
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Death/Mourning (12)
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- bereave
- cadaver
- defunct
- demise
- dolorous
- elegy
- knelle
- macabre
- moribund
- obsequies
- sepulchral
- wraith
15
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Denying of self (6)
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- agnegate
- abstain
- ascetic
- spartan
- stoic
- temperate
16
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Dictatorial (7)
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- authoritarian
- despotic
- dogmatic
- hegemonic/hegemony
- imperious
- peremptory
- tyrannical
17
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Difficult to understand (14)
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- abstruse
- ambiguous
- arcane
- bemusing
- cryptic
- enigmatic
- esoteric
- inscrutable
- obscure
- opaque
- paradoxical
- perplexing
- recondite
- turbid
18
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Disgusting/Offensive (7)
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- defile
- fetid
- invidious
- noisome
- odious
- putrid
- rebarbative
19
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Easy to understand (7)
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- articulate
- cogent
- eloquent
- evident
- limpid
- lucid
- pellucid
20
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Eccentric (unconventional/strange)/Dissimilar (7)
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- aberrant
- anachronism
- anomalous
- discrete
- eclectic
- esoteric
- iconoclast
21
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Embarrass (9)
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- abash
- chagrin
- compunction
- contrition
- diffidence
- expiate
- foible
- gaucherie
- rue
22
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Equal (3)
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- equitable
- equity
- tantamount
23
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Falsehood (16)
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- apocryphal
- canard
- chicanery
- dissemble
- duplicity
- equivocate
- erroneous
- ersatz
- fallacious
- feigned
- guile
- mendacious/mendacity
- perfidy
- prevaricate
- specious
- spurious
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Family (10)
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- conjugal
- consanguine
- distaff
- endogamous
- filial
- fraternal
- fratricide
- progenitor
- scion
- sorority
25
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Favoring/Not Impartial (6)
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- ardent/ardor
- doctrinaire
- fervid
- partisan
- tendentious
- zealot
26
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Forgive/Make Amends (8)
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- absolve
- acquit
- exculpate
- exonerate
- expiate
- palliate
- redress
- vindicate