WordLists4 Flashcards by Adam Steel

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partisan

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favoring (one’s party)

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tendentious

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favoring/not impratial

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zealot

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favoring

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palliate

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forgive

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redress

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forgive

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vindicate

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forgive

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lull

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gap

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orifice

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gap/opening

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rent

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gap/opening

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respite

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gap/opening

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rift

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gap

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magnanimous

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kind

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munificent

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kind/giving

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philanthropic

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generous/kind

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unstinting

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generous/kind

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penurious

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greedy

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rapacious

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greedy

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venal

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greedy

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sardonic

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hard-hearted

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scathing

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hard-hearted

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truculent

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hard-hearted

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vitriolic

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hard-hearted

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vituperation

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hard-hearted

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insidious

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harmful

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minatory

harmful

perfidious

harmful

pernicious

harmful

raucous

harsh-sounding

strident

harsh-sounding

enmity

hatred

loathing

hatred

malice

hatred

odium

hatred

rancor

hatred

salubrious

healthy

salutary

healthy

vacillate

hesitate (go back and forth)

waver

hesitate

malevolent

hostile

misanthropic

hostile

truculent

hostile

vindictive

hostile

novitate

innocent

tyro

innocent/inexperienced

fulsome

insincere

ostensible

insincere

unctuous

insincere

assay

investigate

descry

investigate

peruse

investigate

lethargic

lazy

phlegmatic

lazy

quiescent

lazy

slothful

sluggish/slow

torpid

lazy/sluggish

portentous

luck

propitiate

luck

propitious

luck

providential

lucky

talisman

luck(y item)

harangue

nag

hector

nag

martinet

nag

remonstrate

nag (criticism)

reproof

nag

noisome

nasty

noxious

nasty

circumvent

not a straight line

gyrate

not a straight line

labyrinth

not a straight line

meander

not a straight line

oblique

not a straight line

serrated

not a straight line

sidle

not a straight line

sinuous

not a straight line

undulating

not a straight line

vortex

not a straight line

periphrastic

overblown/wordy

prolix

wordy

rhetoric

wordy

turgid

overblown/wordy

verbose

wordy

placate

pacify

propitiate

pacidy

satiate

satisfy

slake

satisfy

soothe

pacify

harmonious

pleasant-sounding

melodious

pleasant-sounding

sonorous

pleasant-sounding

impecunious

poor

indigent

poor

extol

praise

fawn

praise

laud

praise

venerate

praise

harbinger

predict

portentous

predict

presage

predict

prescient

predictive