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10/4 Flashcards

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Martinet

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A strict disciplinarian, exacting demands

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Polyglot

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Speaking many languages

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Dissembler

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To disguise or conceal (ones true nature) behind a false appearance; to make a false show of, feign

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Dissimilitude

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Lack of resemblance, dissimilarity, difference

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Labyrinthine

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Complicated, tortuous, resembling and labyrinth

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Pithy

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Concise and forcefully expressive expressive

Syn: terse, concise, succinct

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Notion

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A conception or belief of something

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Perils

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Dangers, challenges

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Disposed

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Inclined or willing, having an attitude to or towards

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Ambivalent

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Having contradictory feelings

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Deride

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Express contempt for, ridicule

Syn: mock, scoff, taunt,nsneer, jeer

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Permissive

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Habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something others might disapprove of

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Contrivance

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Something that is created skillfully and inventively to serve a particular purpose
Or the use of a skill to bring about something

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Abound

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To be in abundance

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15
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Binary

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Double, dual, two fold

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Enthrall

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Spell bound

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Prevail

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To come out on top

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18
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Miser

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Hoards wealth and spends as little as possible

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Brusque

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Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner

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Pointed

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Expressing criticism in a direct and unambiguous way

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Polemical

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Impassioned, argumentative attack on something

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22
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Extant

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In existence

Few documents from 1700 are extant today

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Ephemeral

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Short lived

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Pragmatic

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Practical

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Alacrity

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Brisk and cheerful readiness; eagerness

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Voracity

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Full of hunger

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Maintain

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To assert

A scientist maintains that a recent finding supports her theory.

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Contrite

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To feel remorse, affected by guilt

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29
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Pugnacious

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Verbally combative, aggressively argumentative

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Disparate

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Two things that are fundamentally different

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31
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Egregious

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Outstandingly bad, shocking
OR
Remarkably good

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Ploddingly

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To go very slowly, take time

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33
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Dissolution

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Something comes apart

Dissolution of NATO.

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Scrupulous

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Ethical, do the right thing; show attention to detail

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Hoodwink

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Trick or deceive

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Dovetail

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To come together or fit together nicely

37
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Conciliate

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Make peace with

38
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Concede

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To accept, give in

39
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Contrive

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To bring something about or try, but comes unnaturally
To create or bring about by deliberate use of skill and artiface
Manage to do some the foolish or create an undesirable situation.
Syn: invent, concoct, fabricate, think up, devise

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Auspicious

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Favorable, conducive to success

41
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Mercurial

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Animated, sprightly

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Reticent

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Tight lipped, not prone to saying much

43
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Inculpate

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To accuse or charge with wrong doing

44
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Proxy

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Acting on ones behalf

45
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Malaise

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Weakness, discomfort preceding an illness

46
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Quash

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Suppress completely

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Shirk

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Avoid ones work or duties

Syn: evade, neglect, avoid

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Dynamic

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Characterized by constant change

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Limpid

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Calm, without worry

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Scrimping

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Sparing

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Repose

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To lay at rest

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Cogitation

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Intense thinking or mediation

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Complaisance

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Tractability, quality of complying with others wishes

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Acquiesce

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Agree with something passively

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Abet

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Support an action, especially something illegal

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Tacit

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Implied but not expressed

like a group leader who assumes the role and its basically understood

57
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Fledgling

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Inexperienced, still learning

58
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Incommutable

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Not exchangeable or not tolerable

59
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Insensate

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Without feeling, sense, understanding or judgment

60
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Attrition

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A reduction or decrease in numbers,size, or strength

A wearing down or weakening of resistance, especially as a result or continuous pressure or harassment

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Torpidity

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Inactive or sluggish

62
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Rebuke

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Criticize

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Lambaste

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Reprimand harshly

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Adulate

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Praise highly

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Requite

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To repay or reciprocate

66
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Mountebank

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Charlatan

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Charlatan

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Anyone running a con

68
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Dilettante

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One who takes up an activity in a superficial way or claims an area of interest without real commitment or knowledge

69
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Sybarite

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A person devoted to luxury or pleasure

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Feckless

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Lacking in efficiency or vitality

71
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Avon

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Declare or state assuredly

72
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Flag

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Decline

73
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Descry

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To catch sight of

Syn: espy, discern ,perceive, behold

74
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Redouble

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Double, echo, go back over

75
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Proclivity

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An inclination, predisposition

76
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Celerity

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Speed, rapidness of movement or action

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Forlorn

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Lonely, miserable, hopeless

78
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Complicit with

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Involved with but not directly responsible for a moral or legal wrong

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Unflapppable

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Not easily excited

80
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Perfidious

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Treacherous, deceitful

81
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Superagatory

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An action performed beyond what is expected

82
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Retrograde

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Progressing of moving backward

83
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Etiolate

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Weaken or drain of vigor

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