Word Groups Flashcards
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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)
A
- 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
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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
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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
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Disgusting/Offensive (7)
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- defile
- fetid
- invidious
- noisome
- odious
- putrid
- rebarbative
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Easy to understand (7)
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- articulate
- cogent
- eloquent
- evident
- limpid
- lucid
- pellucid
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Eccentric (unconventional/strange)/Dissimilar (7)
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- aberrant
- anachronism
- anomalous
- discrete
- eclectic
- esoteric
- iconoclast
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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
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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
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Favoring/Not Impartial (6)
- ardent/ardor
- doctrinaire
- fervid
- partisan
- tendentious
- zealot
26
Forgive/Make Amends (8)
- absolve
- acquit
- exculpate
- exonerate
- expiate
- palliate
- redress
- vindicate
27
Funny (11)
- chortle
- droll
- facetious
- flippant
- gibe
- jocular
- levity
- ludicrous
- raillery
- riposte
- simper
28
Gaps/Opening (11)
- abatement
- aperture
- fissure
- hiatus
- interregnum
- interstice
- lull
- orifice
- rent
- respite
- rift
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Generous/Kind (8)
- altruistic
- beneficent
- clement
- largess
- magnanimous
- munificent
- philanthropic
- unstinting
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Greedy (7)
- avaricious
- covetous
- mercenary
- miserly
- penurious
- rapacious
- venal
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Hard-hearted (11)
- asperity
- baleful
- dour
- fell
- malevolent
- mordant
- sardonic
- scathing
- truculent
- vitriolic
- vituperation
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Harmful (9)
- baleful
- baneful
- deleterious
- inimical
- injurious
- insidious
- minatory
- perfidious
- pernicious
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Harsh-sounding (5)
- cacophony
- din
- dissonant
- raucous
- strident
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Hatred (10)
- abhorrence
- anathema
- antagonism
- antipathy
- detestation
- enmity
- loathing
- malice
- odium
- rancor
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Healthy (3)
- beneficial
- salubrious
- salutary
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Hesitate (5)
- dither
- oscillate
- teeter
- vacillate
- waver
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Hostile (8)
- antithetic
- churlish
- curmudgeon
- irascible
- malevolent
- misanthropic
- truculent
- vindictive
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Innocent/Inexperienced (6)
- credulous
- gullible
- ingenuous
- naive
- novitiate
- tyro
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Insincere (5)
- disingenuous
- dissemble
- fulsome
- ostensible
- unctuous
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Investigate (5)
- appraise
- ascertain
- assay
- descry
- peruse
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Lazy/Sluggish (10)
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- languid
- lassitude
- lethargic
- phlegmatic
- quiescent
- slothful
- torpid
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Luck (10)
- amulet
- auspicious
- fortuitous
- kismet
- optimum
- portentous
- propitious
- providential
- serendipity
- talisman
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Nag (10)
- admonish
- belabor
- cavil
- enjoin
- exhort
- harangue
- hector
- martinet
- remonstrate
- reproof
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Nasty (3)
- fetid
- noisome
- noxious
45
Not a straight line (15)
- askance
- awry
- careen
- carom
- circuitous
- circumvent
- gyrate
- labyrinth
- meander
- oblique
- serrated
- sidle
- sinuous
- undulating
- vortex
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Overblown/wordy (10)
- bombastic
- circumlocution
- garrulous
- grandiloquent
- loquacious
- periphrastic
- prolix
- rhetoric
- turgid
- verbose
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Pacify/satisfy (11)
- ameliorate
- appease
- assuage
- defer
- mitigate
- mollify
- placate
- propitiate
- satiate
- slake
- soothe
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Pleasant-soothing (4)
- euphonious
- harmonious
- melodious
- sonorous
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Poor (4)
- destitute
- esurient
- impecunious
- indigent
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Praise (9)
- acclaim
- accolade
- aggrandize
- encomium
- eulogize
- extol
- fawn
- laud/laudatory
- venerate/veneration
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Predict (9)
- augur
- auspice
- fey
- harbinger
- portentous
- precursor
- presage
- prescient
- prognosticate
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Prevent/Obstruct (8)
- discomfit
- encumber
- fetter
- forfend
- hinder
- impede
- inhibit
- occlude
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Smart/Learned (4)
- astute
- canny
- erudite
- perspicacious
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Sorrow (11)
- disconsolate
- doleful
- dolor
- elegiac
- forlorn
- lament
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- morose
- plaintive
- threnody
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Stubborn (11)
- implacable
- inexorable
- intractable
- intransigent
- obdurate
- obstinate
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- renitent
- untoward
- vexing
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Terse (6)
- compendious
- curt
- laconic
- pithy
- succinct
- taciturn
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Time/Order/Duration (14)
- anachronism
- antecede
- antedate
- anterior
- archaic
- diurnal
- eon
- ephemeral
- epoch
- fortnight
- millennium
- penultimate
- synchronous
- temporal
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Timid/timidity (6)
- craven
- diffident
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- timorous
- trepidation
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Truth (10)
- candor/candid
- fealty
- frankness
- indisputable
- indubitable
- legitimate
- probity
- sincere
- veracious
- verity
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Unusual (4)
- aberration
- anomaly
- iconoclast
- idiosyncrasy
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Walking about (4)
- ambulatory
- itinerant
- meander
- peripatetic
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Wandering (7)
- discursive
- expatiate
- forage
- itinerant
- peregrination
- peripatetic
- sojourn
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Weaken (8)
- adulterate
- enervate
- exacerbate
- inhibit
- obviate
- stultify
- undermine
- vitiate
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Wisdom (10)
- adage
- aphorism
- apothegm
- axiom
- bromide
- dictum
- epigram
- platitude
- sententious
- truism
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Withdrawal/Retreat (13)
- abeyance
- abjure
- abnegation
- abortive
- abrogate
- decamp
- demure
- recant
- recidivism
- remission
- renege
- rescind
- retrograde
