Wordmasters Lists 1, 2, 3 Flashcards
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Vendetta
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Blood Feud
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Adulate
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Overly Compliment
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Impassive
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No Emotion or Expression
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Opulence
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Great Wealth
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Yaw
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Turn sharply off course
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Baroque
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17th Century European Style
7
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Reprieve
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Cancel or Postpone Punishment
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Repudiate
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Refuse to be Associated with
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Surreptitious
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Kept Secret
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Martinet
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Strict Disciplinarian
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Veer
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Sudden Change of Direction
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Histrionic
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Melodramatic Style
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Harridan
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Strict Old Woman
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Execrate
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Express Great Hate
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Intuitive
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Do something without reasoning, Instinctive
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Repartee
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Dialogue of witty comments
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Enhance
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Improve quality
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Querulous
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Complain in whining manner
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Inertia
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Do nothing
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Shroud
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Enveloping or Covering something
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Incisive
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Focused, penetrating
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Levity
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Humorous due to lack of respect
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Disavow
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Deny responsibility
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Visceral
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Relating to internal feelings
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Detente
Ease hostility
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Windfall
Unexpected luck
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Expedite
Speed process up
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Stentorian
Loud and powerful
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Ardor
Enthusiasm or passion
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Forswear
Reject or renounce under oath
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Noisome
Offensive smell
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Schadenfreude
Thriving on other's suffering
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Besmirch
Damage reputation of someone
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Insolvent
Unable to pay debts owed
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Parvenu
Sudden wealth or power
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Belie
Fail to give true impression
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Choleric
Bad tempered, irritable
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Aspersion
Attack someone's reputation or integrity
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Grimace
Messed up facial expression
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Convoluted
Complicated or difficult to follow
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Indigent
Poor, needy
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Smirk
Smile smugly
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Cerebral
Intellectual, rational
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Diatribe
Stream of abuse or verbal attack
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Qualm
Uneasy feeling
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Plaintive
Expressing sorrow
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Languor
Feeling tired or inertia, pleasantly
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Rue
Regret
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Delude
Deceive or obscure the truth
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Alacrity
Cheerful
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Zeal
Great energy or enthusiasm
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Cloy
Disgust by being too pleasant
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Ignoble
Of lowness, low birth
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Cynic
Believes people act out of self-interest
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Lionize
Give public attention or approval to
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Specious
Misleading in appearance
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Ravage
Cause severe damage to
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Facilitate
Make something easier
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Officious
Offering unwanted help, bossing others around
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Remonstrance
Reproachful protest
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Promulgate
Announce publicly
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Ersatz
Inferior substitute, replacement
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Compunction
Feeling guilty of doing something wrong
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Tout
Attempting to sell something in bad manner
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Immaterial
Unimportant, irrelevant
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Quaff
To drink heartily, especially alchohol
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Demean
Lower in dignity or honor
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Phlegmatic
Not easily excited
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Debacle
Lowly failure, breakup of ice in river
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Scoff
Speaking in mocking tone, sneer
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Fortuitous
Happen by accident, fortunate
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Dynamo
A machine (generator) or a energetic person
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Encumber
Restrict in a way free action is difficult
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Lowly
Low in status or importance
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Dogma
Principle or set of principles
