100-150 Flashcards by Tess Speiser | Brainscape

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Peripheral

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On or having to do with the outer edge

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Penury

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Extreme poverty

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Proclivity

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Tendency, leaning

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Recalcitrant

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Disobedient, resisting authority

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Undulating

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Moving in a wavelike manner

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Volatile

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Highly unstable; explosive

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Ambiguous

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Having more than one meaning

Ambi<> 2
Guous»»> sounds like guess
•••••••••••••2 guessed meanings

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Tolerance

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Respect for the ways and views of others

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Embellish

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To decorate; I add fictitious details to

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Efface

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To erase; to make less noticeable

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Conform

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I fit in; to act in agreement with

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Virtue

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Moral excellence

Virtue-> purtue-> pure

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Eulogy

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High praise (usually for someone who has died)

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Acquiesce

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To give in

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Competent

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Capable; sufficiently skilled

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Censor

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To prevent publication of

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Contempt

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Strong dislike, scorn

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Buoyant

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Cheerful; capable of floating

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Prodigal

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Wasteful with money

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Tact

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Sensitivity, courtesy

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Resilient

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Capable of recovering quickly

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Monarch

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Ruler

“The monarch will be crowned”

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Indulge

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To give in to (a desire)

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Dawdle

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To waste time

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Recant

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To take back (a statement)

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Parsimony

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Extreme stinginess

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Platitude

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A dull, overused remark

Latitudes vary from place to place whereas platitude is common to all

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Desultory

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Aimless, haphazard, unconnected

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Partisan

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Strongly supporting one party or cause

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Vigor

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Strength, energy

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Compatible

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Capable of working in harmony

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Extol

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To praise highly

Being EXtra TOL(tall) is a matter of praise

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Petulant

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Irritable, touchy

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Acrimony

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Bitterness

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Cultivate

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To grow; to improve

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Disparage

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To put down, to belittle

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Erratic

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Wandering, inconsistent

The acts is erotic scenes are quite erratic

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Beneficial

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Helpful, good

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Levity

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Lightness of behavior or feeling

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Ameliorate

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To make better, to improve

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Deride

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To laugh at, make fun of cruelly

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Bane

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Something that harms or destroys

Think of batman

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Anarchy

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Disorder, absence of government control

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Provincial

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Narrow-minded, unsophisticated

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Soluble

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Capable of being dissolved

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Conspicuous

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Obvious, readily apparent

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Consolidate

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To join together, merge

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Extremities

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Not essential, not related to

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Expunge

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To remove, erase

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Trifling

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Unimportant

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Objective

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Not affected by personal feeling