Word List 1 Flashcards

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Abridge

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Condense or shorten

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Benevolent

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Generous, charitable

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Censure

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Blame, criticize

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Gravity

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Seriousness

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Emulate

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Imitate, rival

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Verbose

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Wordy

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Despondent

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Depressed, gloomy

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Opaque

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Dark, not transparent

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Levity

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Lack of seriousness, lightness

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Inherent

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Firmly established by nature of habit

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Servile

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Slavish, cringing

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Flagrant

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Conspicuously wicked, blatant, outrageous

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Credulity

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Belief on slight evidence, gullibility, naïveté

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Presumptuous

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Overconfident, impertinently bold, taking liberties

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