Words I Forget More Flashcards

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Matron

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A mature woman

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Adroit

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Clever, skillful

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Furtive

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Sly, cunning or deceitful, secret, stealth

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Hapless

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Unlucky, unfortunate

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Intrepid

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Courageous, brave

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Irate

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Angry, incensed

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Repudiate

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To reject, decline, disown, refuse to accept

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Tremulous

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Trembling, quivering

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Scurrilous

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Vulgar, coarse, using indecent language

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Acrimonious

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Caustic, bitter

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Concur

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To agree

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Inane

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Silly, foolish

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Pernicious

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Damaging, harmful, causing injury

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Stymie

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To hinder, impede

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Flout

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To disregard

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Virulent

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Harmful, full of hate

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Frustrate

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To foil, to counteract, to thwart

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Inclement

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Stormy, harsh, unfavorable

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Inert

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Powerless to move

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Inert

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Powerless to move

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Pertinent

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Appropriate, to the point

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Peruse

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To read over, to examine, to read carefully

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Premonition

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Forewarning

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Recoil

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To draw back

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Salient

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Important, prominent

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Squeamish

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Easily shocked, oversensitive

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Wan

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Sickly pale

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Conjecture(n.)

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Guess

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Inundate

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To flood, to swamp

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Lax

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Careless, negligent

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Lurid

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Sensational

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Meticulous

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Careful

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Obviate

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To do away with, eliminate

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Rash(adj.)

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Reckless, too hasty

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Sanguine

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Hopeful, optimistic

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Expunge

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To erase

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Fortuitous

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Lucky, accidental

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Fractious

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Quarrelsome

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Inhibition

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Restraint

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Ostentatious

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Showy

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Remuneration

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Reward, pay

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Schim

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Split

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Timorous

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Fearful

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Truncated

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Cut short

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Inchoate

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In an early stage

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Incredulous

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Skeptical

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Propitious

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Favorable

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Subjugate

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To conquer

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Surmise

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To guess

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Surmise

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To guess

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Surreptitious

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Accomplished secretively, stealthy

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Viable

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Workable

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Incisive

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Keen, acute, clear, direct

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Inveigh

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To attack verbally

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Raze

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Destroy

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Scurry

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To run quickly, hastily

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Stentorian

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Loud

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Valor

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Courage