Word List 72 Flashcards by Jennifer Zhang | Brainscape

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Perennial

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Something that is continuing or recurrent

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Reparable

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Capable of being repaired

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Rally

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Call up or summon (forces, vital powers, etc.)

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Unearth

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Dig up

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Retort

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Quick sharp reply

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Agrarian

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Pertaining to land or its cultivation

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Adulation

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Flattery; Admiration

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Codicil

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Supplement to the body of will

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Ethereal

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Light; Heavenly; Unusually refined

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Dissent

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Disagree

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Deliberate

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Consider; Ponder

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Imply

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Suggest a meaning not expressed; Signify

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Saccharine

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Cloyingly sweet

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Haggle

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Argue about prices

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Plagiarism

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Theft of another’s ideas or writings passed off as original

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Cataclysm

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Upheaval; Deluge

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Waft

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Moved gently by winds or waves

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Hypercritical

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Excessively exacting

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Bevy

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Large group or collection, esp. of girls or women

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Wince

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Shrink back; Flinch

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Tawdry

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Cheap and gaudy

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Adherent

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Supporter; Follower

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Foliage

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Masses of leaves

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Scurvy

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Despicable; Contemptible

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Novelty

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Something new; Newness

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Advocate

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Urge; Plead for

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Illusion

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Misleading vision

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Pathological

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Relating to the study of disease; Diseased or markedly abnormal

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Arduous

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Hard; Strenuous

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Humane

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Marked by kindness or consideration

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Antiquated

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Old-fashioned; Obsolete

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Sagacious

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Perceptive; Shrewd; Having insight

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Seclusion

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Isolation; Solitude

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Reputable

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Respectable

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Berserk

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Frenzied

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Pliant

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Flexible; Easily influenced

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Sibling

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Brother or sister

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Undulating

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Moving with a wavelike motion

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Dissimulate

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Pretend; Conceal by feigning

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Overwrought

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Extremely agitated; Hysterical

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Treacly

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Sticky sweet; Cloying sentimental

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Glacial

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Like a glacier; Extremely cold

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Bemused

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Confused; Lost in thought; Preoccupied

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Abrade

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Wear away by friction; Scrape; Erode

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Stricture

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Restriction; Adverse criticism