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Word List 5 Flashcards

1
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Intimate

A

To hint, imply

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Irascible

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Prone to anger

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Irritainment

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Irritating television programmes you can’t stop watching

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Itenerant

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Travelling, moving from place to place

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5
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Jauntily

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In a lively manner, lightly

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Jingoism

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The extreme belief that one’s belief is always best

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Judicial

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Pertaining to the court of the law

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Ken

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To know, understand

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Lambaste

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Scold, beat or whip soundly

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Languid

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Sluggish, without vigour, weak

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Liable

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legally obliged, responsible

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Liase

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To speak to people in order to exchange information with them

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Litter

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A stretcher for carrying a sick or injured person

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Livid

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Eraged, furious

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Lobbyist

A

Advocate

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Loquacious

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Very talkative

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Malinger

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To pretend illness to escape duty

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Manifestly

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Plainly, in a way that is easily understood

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Maverick

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An unbranded or stray calf

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Melanotrichous

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Hairy black hair

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Meritriciously

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Deceptively, in an insincere, vulgar way

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Miniature

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Reduced to a small scale

23
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Misanthropic

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Distrustful of everyone, cynical

24
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Mitigated

A

Made less severe

25
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Moot

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Open for discussion, debatable

26
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Moribund

A

About to die

27
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Mos

A

Custom, habit

28
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Nee

A

Born as

29
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Noop

A

Tip of elbow

30
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Nuance

A

Fine distinction, subtelty

31
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Nubile

A

Young and Attractive

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Obsequiously

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Like a servant, obediently

33
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Odious

A

Repulsive, hateful

34
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Orient

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To adjust to one’s circumstances or surroundings

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Orutund

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Bombastic, pompous

36
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Pallid

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pale, wan

37
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Pandemonium

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A wild uproar, tumult

38
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Paradigm

A

A model of something, a very clear, typical example of something

39
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Paramour

A

Lover

40
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Parry

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to ward off, to avert an attack

41
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Pedantic

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Overly meticulous, narrow minded

42
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Peremptory

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Final, leaving no opportunity for debate or denial

43
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Pernicious

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Exeedingly harmful

44
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Pernickety

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Fussy, hard to please, meticulous

45
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Persistance

A

Perseverance

46
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Petulant

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Impatient, irritable

47
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Plenary

A

Compulsory full attendance

48
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Poky

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Cramped, small, confined

49
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Predicate

A

To assert or affirm as true

50
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Prepossessing

A

Appealing, charming

51
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Preposterously

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Ridiculously, absurdly

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