Wordmasters Lists 1, 2, 3 Flashcards by Anjie Jin | Brainscape

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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

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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

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Ease hostility

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Windfall

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Unexpected luck

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Expedite

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Speed process up

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Stentorian

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Loud and powerful

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Ardor

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Enthusiasm or passion

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Forswear

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Reject or renounce under oath

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Noisome

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Offensive smell

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Schadenfreude

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Thriving on other’s suffering

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Besmirch

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Damage reputation of someone

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Insolvent

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Unable to pay debts owed

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Parvenu

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Sudden wealth or power

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Belie

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Fail to give true impression

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Choleric

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Bad tempered, irritable

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Aspersion

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Attack someone’s reputation or integrity

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Grimace

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Messed up facial expression

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Convoluted

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Complicated or difficult to follow

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Indigent

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Poor, needy

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Smirk

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Smile smugly

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Cerebral

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Intellectual, rational

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Diatribe

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Stream of abuse or verbal attack

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Qualm

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Uneasy feeling

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Plaintive

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Expressing sorrow

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Languor

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Feeling tired or inertia, pleasantly

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Rue

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Regret

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Delude

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Deceive or obscure the truth

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Alacrity

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Cheerful

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Zeal

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Great energy or enthusiasm

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Cloy

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Disgust by being too pleasant

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Ignoble

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Of lowness, low birth

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Cynic

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Believes people act out of self-interest

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Lionize

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Give public attention or approval to

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Specious

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Misleading in appearance

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Ravage

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Cause severe damage to

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Facilitate

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Make something easier

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Officious

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Offering unwanted help, bossing others around

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Remonstrance

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Reproachful protest

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Promulgate

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Announce publicly

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Ersatz

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Inferior substitute, replacement

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Compunction

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Feeling guilty of doing something wrong

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Tout

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Attempting to sell something in bad manner

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Immaterial

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Unimportant, irrelevant

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Quaff

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To drink heartily, especially alchohol

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Demean

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Lower in dignity or honor

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Phlegmatic

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Not easily excited

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Debacle

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Lowly failure, breakup of ice in river

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Scoff

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Speaking in mocking tone, sneer

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Fortuitous

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Happen by accident, fortunate

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Dynamo

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A machine (generator) or a energetic person

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Encumber

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Restrict in a way free action is difficult

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Lowly

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Low in status or importance

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Dogma

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Principle or set of principles