Word set - Week 11 Flashcards

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Inundate

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To flood, overflow, deluge, engulf, submerge, swamp, overwhelm

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Poignant

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Moving, painful to the feelings, a poignant scene, emotional, touching, stirring

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Sanguine

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Optimistic, assured, certain, confident, doubtless, positive

Having a healthy reddish color, florid, flush, glowing, rosy, ruddy

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Phlegmatic

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Calm, hard to rouse to action, apathetic, stoic, stolid

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Corroborate

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To support with evidence, confirm, validate, vindicate, substantiate

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Comprehensive

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Thorough, covering all possibilities, inclusive, omnibus, panoramic, universal, grand, intact, integral, plenary

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Zealous

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Enthusiastic, filled with zeal

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Coerce

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To force, restrain, repress, to compel to an act or choice, enforce, compel, constrain, drive, obligate, press, pressure

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Elapse

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To slip by, pass, cease, expire, terminate, wind up

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Meticulous

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Careful, attention to details, conscientious, fussy, painstaking

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Domicile

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Home, abode, dwelling place, lodging, quarters, residence

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Lax

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Careless, negligent, derelict, slack

not strict, not tense, firm, or rigid, easygoing, flexible, relaxed

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Sporadic

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Occasional, casual, erratic, intermittent, irregular, spotty, unsteady

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Rash

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Too hasty, reckless, cursory, headlong, precipitate, precipitous

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Conjecture

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Guess, a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork, surmise, theory, hypothesis

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Obviate

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Do away with, eliminate, avert, forestall, preclude, prevent

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Lurid

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Sensational

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Quip

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A clever remark, jest, joke

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Fruitless

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Useless

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Garbled

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Confused, mixed up