Words from Practice Flashcards by Tejas Balamukesh | Brainscape

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Vitality

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Being Strong and Active

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Slapdash

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Done in a hurry

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Fatuous

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Silly and Pointless; Childish

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Titillating

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Arousing Mild excitement

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Holistic

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All encompassing

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Vacuous

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Mindlessness

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Prophylatic

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Preventive

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Rousing

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Exciting

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Metamorphosis

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Change form completely

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Winnowing

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Find or identify something useful

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Proliferation

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Rapid increase in number

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Garrulous

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Excessively Talkative

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Gawky

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Nervously awkward

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Deprecation

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Express disapproval

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Nubile

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attractive

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Hypocritical

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Specious

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Largesse

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Willing to donate money

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Kindred

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Similar

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Disaffected

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Dissatisfied with the authorities

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Jaunty

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Being self confident

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Tendentious

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Trying to promote a certain POV

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Nexus

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A central or focal point

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Inextricable

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Impossible to escape

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Hitherto

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Until now or a point in time

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Concommitant

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Accompanying

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Inquisitiveness

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Having interest in learning new things

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Incredulity

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Impossible to believe

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Petulance

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Being childish or bad tempered

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Glib

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Fluent but insincere

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Ascetics

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Following severe abstinence or self discipline from all indulgences

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Enamoring

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Filled with love for

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject matter

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Wanton

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An unjustifiable act

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Lampoon

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Publicly mock

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Penchant

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Tendency

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Predilection

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Penchant

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Propensity

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Penchant

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Proclivity

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Penchant

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Predisposition

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Penchant

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Stolid/Phlegmatic

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Not showing any emotions

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Sanguine

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Optimistic

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Choleric

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Angry

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Melancholic

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Sad

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Dubious

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Questionable

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Pillory

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Condemn or attack publicly

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Pedantic

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Excessively concerned with minor details or rules

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Prolix

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Wordy

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Verbose

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Wordy

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Prosaic

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Long and Boring

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Arcane

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Difficult to understand