10 Flashcards

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Amortize

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verb: to pay off or liquidate.

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Audacious

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adjective: Fearlessly daring; invulnerable to fear or intimidation. (inexorable)

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Candor

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noun: Honesty or expression.

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Capitulate

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verb: To submit utterly and completely. (acquiesce).

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Captious

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adjective: Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults.

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Coercion

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noun: Force or the power to use force in gaining compliance.

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Culpable

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adjective: Guilty; responsible for wrongdoing.

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Endemic

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adjective: Belonging to a particular area.

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Extol

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verb: To praise highly. (exalt, glorify)

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Inimical

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adjective: Hostile; unfriendly.

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Insentient

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adjective: Unfeeling; without sensation. (callous)

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Insidious

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adjective: Operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect.

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Insolent

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adjective: Insulting and arrogant. (imperious, impertinent, impudent)

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Legerdemain

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noun: Trickery; sleight of hand. (chicanery, guile)

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Matriculate

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verb: To enroll or register in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.

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Maudlin

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adjective: Overly sentimental; too much sentiment for effect.

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Misanthrope

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noun: One who hates or mistrusts or is cynical of humankind.

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Mitigate

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verb: To soften, make milder; to moderate. (assuage, allay, extenuate, palliate)

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Moiety

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noun: A part, portion, or share.

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Nihilism

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noun: The belief that existence and all traditional values are meaningless.

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Obfuscate

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verb: To confuse; obscure; to be difficult to perceive or understand.

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Obstreperous

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adjective: Troublesome; boisterous; unruly. (Churlish, tumultuous, fractious)

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Omnipotent

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adjective: Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful; supreme.

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Panacea

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noun: A remedy for all diseases.

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Panegyric
noun: Elaborate praises or laudation. (encomium, homage, kudos)
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Paragon
noun: A model or pattern of excellence or perfection; an archetype.
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Pathos
noun: A quality that arouses pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.
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Quixotic
adjective: Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuits of unreachable goals.
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Quotidian
adjective: Occurring daily; commonplace. (banal, diurnal)
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Raconteur
noun: One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.
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Reconnoiter
verb: To explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody; surveillance; to survey.
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Ribald
adjective: Characterized by or indulging vular, lewd humor.
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Spurious
adjective: Neither genuine, authentic, nor true;
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Sycophant
noun: A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.
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Ubiquitous
adjective: Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time. (omnipresent).