Words Flashcards by Douglas Steward | Brainscape

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Ephemeral

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Lasts a short time, fleeting

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Insipid

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Lacking flavor, boring

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Perfidy

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Deceitful ness

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Latent

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Existing but hidden and not manifest yet

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Abstemious

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Not self-indulgent

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Dissonance

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Conflict between people or opinions

Disagreeable sounds

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Sclerotic

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Rigid, unable to adapt

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Captious

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Tending to find fault or raise petty objections

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Suffuse

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Spread or fill a space

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Stentorian

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Loud and powerful (of a person’s voice)

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Tendentious

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Promoting a specific and controversial view

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Sinecure

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Easy, cushy job

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Miasma

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Unpleasant smell

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Cabalistic

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Secret, hidden mystical meaning

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Scurrilous

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Rumors, meant to damage a reputation

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