Words Flashcards
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Abate
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decrease in intensity
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Aberrant
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atypical
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Abjure
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Reject or renounce
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Abscond
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run away for doing something bad
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Abstain
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refrain from doing something intentionally
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Acumen
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skillful in making right judgments
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Admonish
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scold or advice
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Adulterate
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make it impure by introducing other elements
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Advocate
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support or advice
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Affectation
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fake or artificial behavior
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Aggrandize
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increase in wealth or status or reputation
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Alacrity
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eagerness
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Alleviate
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to relieve a problem or ease a burden
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Amalgamate
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to combine together
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Ambivalent
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having a mixed or contradictory feeling about something
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Ameliorate
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making something bad better
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Amenable
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easily convinced or persuaded
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Anachronism
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old-fashioned
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Analogous
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comparable
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Anoint
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smear in oil; to choose for a particular position
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Anomaly
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oddity
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Antipathy
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extreme hatred
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Antithetical
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contrary t
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Apathy
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disinterest
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Appease
to pacify; satisfy a demand or feeling
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Arbitrary
randomly
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Arcane
secrets known to select people
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Archaic
old-fashioned
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Articulate
well-spoken
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Arduous
difficult and requires a lot of effort
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Artless
natural and simple; without skill
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Ascetic
self-denying
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Assuge
to provide relief from a bad feeling
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Audacious
bold and disrespectful
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Austere
severe
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Avarice
extreme greed
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Aver
to assert
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Banal
boring, cliche
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belie
to contradict
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Benign
harmless and gentle
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Bolster
support
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Bombastic
exaggerate
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Brazen
bold or shameless
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Bucolic
related to the pretty aspects of country life
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Burgeon
expand or flourish
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Cacaphony
loud and chaotic noise
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Calumny
lie or slander
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Candid
open and honest
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Canon
set of rules; sacred books
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Capricious
unstable; variable; unpredictable
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Castigate
scold firmly
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Caustic
corrosive or sarcastic
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Censure
express severe disapproval
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Chauvinist
someone who believes their own group is superior
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Chicanery
deception or tricky
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Coalesce
combine together to form a larger mass
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Cogent
clear, logical, and convincing
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Commensurate
in proportion
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Comprehensive
complete
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Condone
to approve or allow
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Confound
to astonish or confess
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Connoisseur
expert in a subject
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Contentious
controversial
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Contrite
remorseful
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Convoluted
complicated
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Copious
plentiful or abundant
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Cosmopolitan
universal
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Covet
desire something that does not belong to you
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Craven
cowardly
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Credulous
naive
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Decorum
good manner and behavior
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Deference
respect or polite submission
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Deftness
skillful and without effort
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Delineate
Outline or describe
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Demur
to object or raise a concern
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Denigrate
to say something negative
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Deride
to ridicule or mock
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Desiccate
to dry out
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Desultory
without purpose or enthusiasm
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Diatribe
rant or angry speech
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Didactic
intended to teach
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Diffident
modest or shy
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Dilettante
someone with a strong interest in something
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Dirge
mournful song
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Disabuse
to persuade someone that their opinion is mistaken
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Discern
recognize or find out
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Discrepancy
inconsistency
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Disparage
belittle
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Disparate
Not familiar
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Dispassionate
not influenced by strong emotion
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Dissemble
deceive
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Disseminate
spread out
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Dissonance
lack of harmony
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Diverge
split apart
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Dogma
rules put by authority
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Dupe
deceive
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Ebullient
energetic
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Eccentric
weird or quirky
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Eclectic
wide-ranging, board
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Efficacy
effectiveness
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Elegy
sad song
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Eloquence
persuasive
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Emulate
match or surpass a person
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Enervate
exhausted
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Engender
cause or give rise to
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Ephemeral
short-lived
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Equable
does not change much
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Equivocate
use ambiguous language to deceive
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Erroneous
incorrect
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Erudite
learned; showing great knowledge or learning
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eschew
avoid or abstain from
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Esoteric
understood by small people with specialized knowledge
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Estimable
deserving respect
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Eulogy
memorial speech given at a funeral
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Exacerbate
to make something worse
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Exacting
challenging or demanding
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Exculpate
show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrongdoing
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Exigent
urgent or pressing
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Exonerate
(official being) absolve (someone) from wrongdoing
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Expatiate
elaborate in more detail
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Explicate
explain in detail
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Exposition
event; explanation
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extraneous
irrelevant
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facetious
treating serious issues with inappropriate remarks
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fallacious
incorrect
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fastidious
very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and details
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Foment
start or provoke
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forestall
hold off or try to prevent
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fortutious
lucky
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gainsay
deny or oppose
