Word Of The Day 4 Flashcards

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Lustful and lecherous

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Salacious

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Lacking flavor; lacking vigor or interest

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Insipid

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Having or showing no skill

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Inept

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Strip something of its covering, possessions, or assets; make bare

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Denude

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Completely destroy

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Raze

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

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Obsequious

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Not easily upset or excited; calm and peaceful with little movement or activity

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Placid

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Shaking or quivering slightly; timid or nervous (tremor)

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Tremulous

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To laugh at in scorn or contempt; to scoff or jeer at to mock

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Deride

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Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep

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Soporific

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Slow to act

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Dilatory

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Extreme poor; poverty stricken

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Penurious

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Not harmful or offensive

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Innocuous

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Offense or annoyance

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Umbrage

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Spoil it impair the quality or efficiency of

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Vitiate

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Root out and destroy completely

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Extirpate

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Swollen and distended or congested

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Turgid

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Render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible

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Obfuscate

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Easily irritated especially by unimportant things

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Peevish

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An excessive amount of something

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Surfeit