Words Flashcards by akul chhillar

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Bucolic

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Relating to Rural life

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Capitulate

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Surrender or give up

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Catholic

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Universal

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Catharsis

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Purification that brings relief

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Circumspect

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Cautious

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Consonant

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Harmony

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Convivial

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Festive

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Covenant

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Agreement

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Delinate

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Properly demarcate

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Desultory

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Without plan

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Dissipate

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Thin out

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Epigram

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Short satirical saying

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Exonerate

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Free from guilt

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Fetter

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To restrain

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Flout

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Disregard

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Impetuous

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Impatient

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Indigent

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Poor

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Injunction

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Command

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Invective

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Insulting

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Laconic

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Using less words

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Marshal

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Order

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Matriculation

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Enroll

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Mortify

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Humiliate

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Pejorative

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Negative / Disparaging

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Peremptory

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Final / categorical

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Plaintive

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Expressing sadness

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Ponderous

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Massive,dull

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Precept

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Rule to live by

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Preempt

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Seize by force

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Recant

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To repudiate

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Solicitous

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Eager / Attentive

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Specious

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Deceptively attractively

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Staunch

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Firmly committed

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Stratum

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Layer

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Structure

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Structure

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Supercilious

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Haughty/patronising

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Surfeit

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Excess

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Venal

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Capable of being bribed

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Vicissitude

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Upheaval

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Volition

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Choice/will

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Tantamount

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Equivalent to

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Tautological

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Redundant

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Temerity

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Bold

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Tenable

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Defensible

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Tenuous

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Extremely thin

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Torpor

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Inactivity

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Shanghai

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Put ship in water by force

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Wanton

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Malicious

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Wistful

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Deliberately