Word List 4 Flashcards by Ofentse Bosman | Brainscape

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Excerpt

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small selection from a book or document

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Exhumed

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Dug from the grave

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Exigency

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Urgent need

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Expeditiously

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In an efficient way, speedily

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Extempore

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On the spur of the moment

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Fastidious

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Pernickety

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Fatuous

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silly, idiotic

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Fickle

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Changeable

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Flaccid

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Fond of showing off

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Flinch

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To wince, to draw back

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Fortuitous

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Happening by lucky accident or chance

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Founder

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Stumber, fail utterly, to fill with water and sink

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Frantic

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Wildly excited, agitated

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Frenetic

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Frantic, frenzied

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Gab

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Chattering or meaningless talk

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Gad

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A sharp pointed rod

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Gar

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Any slender fish

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Garnish

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To sieze by legal authority

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Gelasin

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A dimple occuring when you smile

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Gerrymander

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To manipulate the boundaries of an electoral constituency to favour a particular party

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Gesticulate

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Make lively gestures, moves hands about

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Gripe

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To grumble or complain

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Guileless

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Sincere, without deception

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Hail

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To aclaim, call out

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Halcyon

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Ideallicaly happy, peaceful

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Harp

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To persist or dwell tediously on a subject

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Hirci

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Armpit hair

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Hirsute

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Hairy

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Hone

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To sharpen, improve, perfect

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Honorary

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One for which no salary is paid

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Horde

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A large group of people, crowd

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Ignominiously

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With disgrace, dishonourably

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Impeccable

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such that no fault could be found

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Implore

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To ask someone to do or not do something in a very sincere way

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Importune

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To plead annoyingly

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Inception

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Beginning

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Incessant

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Never-stopping in an annoying, unpleasant way

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Inclement

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Severe, stormy or cold, merciless

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Incoherent

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Hard to understand

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Incorrigible

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Incapable of being corrected

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Incumbent

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Office holder

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Indefatigable

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Tireless

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Indelible

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Unable to be forgotten

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Indubitably

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Without Question or doubt

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Infatuation

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Romantic attachment, attraction

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Ingenuous

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Candid, open, without guile

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Inscrutably

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Mysteriously, in an incomprehensible way

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Insular

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Overly meticulous, sourounded by sea

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Intermittently

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Every now and then