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Word List#2 Flashcards

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Abrasive

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Rough

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Accelerate

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To speed up

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Accord

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Agreement

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Adjacent

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Next to

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Adverse

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Opposing

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Agenda

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A list of things to do

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Agony

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Extreme pain

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Akin

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Similar to

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Allot

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To give out

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Ambiguous

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Having more than one meaning

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Ample

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Plentiful. Enough

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Anesthetic

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Painkiller

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Anticipate

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To expect

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Appeal

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Attractiveness. To request

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Aappropriate

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Proper. To seize

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Arbitrary

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Random

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Ascertain

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To find out for making inquiries

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Atheist

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One who does not believe in God

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Audible

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Able to be heard

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Baffle

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To fool. To confuse

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Barren

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Not capable of producing vegetation

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Benchmark

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A standard for measuring something

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Bizarre

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Strange

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Blueprint

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Plan. Design for a building

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Bonanza

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Huge. Unexpected profit

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Braggart

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One who brags a lot

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Brittle

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Easy to break

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Burly

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Muscular

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Calamity

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Disaster

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Capacity

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Available space

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Cease

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To stop

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Census

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An official population count

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Chronicle

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Story

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Cliche

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Overused phrase

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Colleague

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Co-worker

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Compatible

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Able to get along well together

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Complementary

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Completing. Going well together

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Composite

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Made up of separate parts

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Compromise

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Settlement in which each party surrenders something they want

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Concussion

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Head injury

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Confinement

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Imprisonment

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Conscientious

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Careful. Ethical

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Conservative

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Traditional

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Constituents

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1: parts of a whole. 2: voters

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Contemporary

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Of the same time. Present

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Contract

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To shorten. To shrink

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Conversion

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Change

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Correspondence

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Similarity. Communication

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Counterfeiter

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One who makes fake money

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Creases

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Lines. Wrinkles

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Critic

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One who makes unfavorable comments. Reviewer

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Cunning

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Sly. Devious

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Decelerate

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To slow down

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Decomposition

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Process of falling apart. Disintegration

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Deflect

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To block. To push of to the side

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Deliberate

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Carefully considered and planned. Intentional

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Deplete

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To use up. To exhaust the supply of

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Desertion

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Abondonment

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Diction

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Choice of words

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Diligent

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Hard working

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Disbar

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To expel a lawyer from law practice

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Disclosure

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Something released

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Discredit

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To disbelieve

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Disengagement

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Separation

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Disinclination

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Unwillingness

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Dismiss

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To send away

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Disrobe

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To take off ones clothes

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Distasteful

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Unlike able

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Divergence

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Separation

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Downheartedness

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Sadness

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Dubious

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Doubtful

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Dutiful

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Obidient

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Economize

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To save

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Elongate

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To make longer

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Embroidery

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Needlework decoration

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Empathy

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Sympathy

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Endure

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To tolerate.

To last

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Enmesh

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To catch. To untangle

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Entrepreneur

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Independent businessmen

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Eradicate

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To get rid of

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Essence

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Basic nature. Most important part of something

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Explicit

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Clear obvious

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Extroverted

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Outgoing, friendly

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Facilitate

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To make easier

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Feasible

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Possible

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Flower

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To blossom

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Forge

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To move steadily

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Fragrant

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Pleasant smelling

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Frenzy

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Temporary madness

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Garland

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Circle of leaves or flowers

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Gibberish

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Nonsense

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Goal

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Score in soccer

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Grant

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Gift, to give

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Grim

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Terrible

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Gulf

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Huge gap

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Haggard

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Looking tired

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Harbor

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Place where the ships dock

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Headstrong

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Determined, stubborn

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Hemorrhage

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Heavy or uncontrollable bleeding

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High-minded

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Showing high morals or feelings

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Homogeneous

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The same throughout

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Hybrid

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A blend of two things

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Hypothetical

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Theoretical

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Abhor

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To hate

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Idiom

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An expression of language

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Immaculate

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Clean, pure

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Impartial

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Neutral, objective

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Imperious

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Bossy, acting like a king

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Imposition

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Inconvenience, burden

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Inaccessible

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Not able to be reached or entered

Not understandable

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Incarcerate

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To improsin

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Inconclusive

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Without final results

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Incurious

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Not caring

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Indigenous

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Native

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Induced

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Persuaded

Brought about

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Inevitable

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Unavoidable

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Inhabit

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To live in

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Innumerable

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Countless

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Insistent

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Demanding

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Instigate

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To provoke

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Integrity

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Honesty

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Intimate

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Close
To imply
Thorough

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Inventory

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A list of the goods a business owners

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Irretrievable

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Impossible to bring back

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Jeopardy

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Danger, risk

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Junction

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Where to things meet

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Kindle

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To start a fire

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Landslide

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Rocks and earth suddenly fall down a mountain

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Lax

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Careless

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Linger

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To hang around

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Loiterer

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One who hangs around

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Luminous

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Full of light

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Mandatory

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Required

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Meager

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Thin

Not enough

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Megaphone

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Device used to make ones voice louder

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Metaphor

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Literary comparison

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Migrant

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One who often changes his or her place of living

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Minnow

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Small fish

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Mishap

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Accident

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Monotony

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Single, unchanging tone

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Mutability

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Change ability

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Nick

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To cut slightly

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Novel

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New, unusual

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Oblige

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To do a favor

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Oceanographer

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One who studies the ocean

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Optimism

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Positive attitude

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Outcast

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Someone not accepted by society

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Paradox

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An apparent contradiction

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Passable

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Able to be traveled through,

Barely satisfactory

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Peer

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Companion

To look curiously

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Perplex

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To confuse

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Phenomenon

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Occurrence

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Pittance

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Small amount

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Polarize

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To divide into opposing groups

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Postscript

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A note added at the end of a letter

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Precursor

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One who comes before someone else

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Preeminent

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Superior

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Prescribe

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To lay down as a rule

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Pretentious

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Pretending to be someone your not

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Probing

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Exploring

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Prominent

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Standing out

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Prose

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Ordinary language

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Pseudonym

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A fake name

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Qualitative

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Relating to quality

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Radical

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Extremist

Extreme

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Rational

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Logical, reasonable

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Recital

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Musical performance

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Recoil

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To draw back in alarm or horror

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Red tape

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Official routines that delay action

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Refugee

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One who needs protection

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Regressive

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Going backward

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Rejuvenate

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To bring back the youthful strength or appearance

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Remorse

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Regret, sorrow for having done wrong

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Repel

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To force back

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Resent

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To feel angry or bitter toward

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Resolution

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Purpose

Settlement of a problem

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Restrain

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To hold back

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Rift

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Crack or fracture

To divide

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Robust

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Strong

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Ruthless

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Cruel

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Sage

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Wise

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Seasonal

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Once each season

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Serene

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Calm, peaceful

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Severity

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Harshness

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Shunned

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Rejected

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Smirk

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To smile in a self-satisfied way

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Solitude

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Isolation

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Span

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The distance between two items

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Spouse

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Husband or wife

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Stale

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Tasteless

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Stereotype

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Oversimplified opinion

Generalization based on perceived pattern

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Stubble

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Short stalks of grain

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Suburbanite

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One who lives outside the city

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Surge

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To increase suddenly

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Sycophant

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Asskisser

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Synthetic

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Man-made, artificial

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Taint

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Trace of something bad

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Tangible

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Clear and certain

Touchable

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Tenacious

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Persisting

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Terse

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Short and to the point

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Toxic

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Poisonous

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Treachery

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Deceitfulness

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Turbulence

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Storylines

Sudden movements

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Ultramodern

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Very new

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Unconditional

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Without conditions

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Unfashionable

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Not stylish

Unpopular

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Unmask

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To reveal

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Uproarious

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Extremely funny

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Vaccinate

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To give a shot that protects against disease

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Veil

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Cloth used to cover the face

To hide

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Verify

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To prove

To confirm

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Vibrant

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Lively

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Weld

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To join metals or plastics by beating

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Yielding

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Giving in

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Zeal

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Enthusiasm

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