Words Flashcards
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Credulous
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- Willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence, gullible
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Enmity
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- A feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism
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Impertinent
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- Intrusive
- Irrelevant
- Inappropriate or absurd
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Perfidious
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- Deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful
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Assent
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- To agree or concur; subscribe to
- To give in, yield, or concede
- Agreement or approval
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Banal
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- Lacking in originality, freshness, or excitement
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Capriciousness
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- The quality of being led by or subject to sudden, odd notions or changes; arbitrary or erratic character
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Diffident
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- Lacking confidence in your own ability
- Reserved in Manner
- Distrustful
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Solicitous
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- Being very concerned for someone’s well being
- Being anxious or eager to do something
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Visage
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- The face, usually with reference to a shape, features, expression, etc.
- Aspect, appearance
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Ardent
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- Intense, passionate emotion
- Intensely eager or devoted
- Glowing very bright, like one of a fire
- Burning, very hot, on fire
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Languish
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- To be weak
- To loose energy
- To be neglected
- To be ignored
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Transpire
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- For something to happen
- An event that has occurred
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Turbid
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- Not clear or transparent because of stirred-up sediment or the like; clouded; opaque; obscured
- Thick or dense, like smoke or clouds
- Confused; muddled; disturbed
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Anathema
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- A curse or form of punishment
- Of a person or thing, greatly hated or loathed
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Assignation
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- An assigned meeting place, typically secretly between two lovers
- An assignment
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Convivial
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- Being occupied with or fond of the pleasures that come with pleasant company
- Lively and enjoyable event
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Fortitude
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- Metal and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously
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Symbiosis
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- The living together of two or more dissimilar organisms
- Mutualistic or parasitic relationship
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Telepathy
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- Communication between minds by some means more than sensory perception
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Transience
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- The attribute of being brief or fleeting
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Perfunctory
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- Performed without much interest, hasty and uninterested
- Lacking interest, inattentive, superficial
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Prerogative
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- The exclusive right or privilege given with a certain rank or position
- A right or privilege limited to a specific person
- A power or immunity given to a certain person or position
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Querulous
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- Full of complaints, complaining
- Characterized by or spoken in complaint
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Redundant
1. Exceeding what is needed or useful; superfluous or unnecessary
2. Characterized by unnecessary word or repetition; verbose
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Succumbed
1. To yield to a greater force
2. To die off injury, disease, etc.
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Stoical
1. To endure pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaining
2. Of or belonging to the Stoics or their school of philosophy
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Atrophy
1. A wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, because of defective nutrition or nerve damage
2. Degeneration, decline, or decrease, from disuse
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Extirpate
1. To remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate
2. To pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot
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Indolence
1. Dislike of putting in much effort
2. Love of doing things the easy way, if doing anything at all
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Mundane
1. Common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative
2. Of or relating to the world, universe, or earth