Words 8/8/12 Flashcards
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abase
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to humiliate
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abate
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to reduce
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aberration
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deviation from the norm
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abeyance
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temporary suspension
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accoutrements
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accessories
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acrimony
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bitterness towards something
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acumen
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good judgment
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affable
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friendly
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alacrity
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eagerness
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apocryphal
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of doubtful authority
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arcane
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mysterious
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asseverate
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to declare earnestly
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assiduity
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attention, concentration
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avaricious
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greedy
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belie
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to misrepresent
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belligerent
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hostile
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bereaved
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deprived
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bombastic
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pompous
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calumny
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attempting to ruin someone else with rumors
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capricious
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erratic, moody
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censure
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to criticize harshly
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Charlatan
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fake
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circumspect
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careful
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cogitation
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contemplation
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conciliatory
agreeable
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comport
to behave
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concord
agreement
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contentious
quarrelsome
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contiguous
sharing an edge, touching
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cosmopolitan
sophisticated, worldly
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deride
taunt
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defunct
not existing/functioning
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deleterious
harmful
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depravity
something evil
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diatribe
insulting speech
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didactic
educational
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diffidence
hesitancy
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disaffected
discontent
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discerning
perceptive
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disconcert
to disarrange, agitate
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dissipated
corrupted
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duplicitous
deceptive
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ebullient
enthusiastic
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effrontery
boldedness
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eminent
distinguished
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emolument
salary
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ensconce
to settle securely
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environs
surroundings
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epitome
representative
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esoteric
understood by only a small group
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exacerbate
to irritate
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exorbitant
way too much
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expounding
explaining in detail
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extol
to praise highly
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exude
to emit
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fastidious
difficult to please
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felicitous
suitable, opportune
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flagrant
extremely noticeable
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flippant
disrespectfully humorous
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garish
in bad taste
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gauche
no social grace
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gesticulate
to motion wildly
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gormandizing
eating ravenously
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gratuitous
unnecessary
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hapless
unfortunate
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heinous
wicked
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iconoclast
one who rejects common beliefs
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idolatrous
excessive worshipping
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ignominiously
disgraceful
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imperturbable
calm
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impetuous
rash
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impinge
to impact
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imprecations
curses
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impugn
to attack as false
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incipient
in first stage
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incontrovertible
not open to question
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inculcate
teach by repetition
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indelible
can't be eliminated
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indict
to charge officially with crime
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indoctrinate
to teach fundamentals
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inept
not enough
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inestimable
too valuable to be measured
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inscrutable
difficult to understand
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insidious
harmful, like in ambush
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insipid
tasteless
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insolent
insulting
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insular
isolated
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interim
temporary, time between events
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interpose
to come between
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intransgience
not willing to compromise
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inundate
to swamp
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invocation
to call for assistance
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jocular
joking manner
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judicious
with good judgment
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knell
sound of a bell (death)
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laceration
a cut
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lampoon
publicly mock
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larceny
theft
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levity
joking manner, lighthearted
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absolution
pardon
