100 Hard Repeat Offenders Flashcards
(100 cards)
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Abstruse
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Hard to understand
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Ameliorate
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To make better
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Adulation
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Excessive admiration
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Alacrity
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Liveliness and eagerness
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Anachronistic
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Out of chronological order
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Arboreal
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Relating to trees
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Assiduous
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Constant and attentive
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Auspicious
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Favorable; fortunate
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Austere
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- Strict; disciplined; serious
2. Simple; undecorated
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Avarice
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Extreme greed for material wealth
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Banal
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Repeated too often
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Bombast
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Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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Castigate
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To criticize or punish severely
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Cataclysm
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A violent upheavel
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Cathartic
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Inducing a release of tense emotions
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Clandestine
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Secret
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Conflagration
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A destructive fire
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Conscientious
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Characterized by extreme care and great effort
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Contrite
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Feeling guilty and remorseful
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Dalliance
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Deliberate act or delaying and playing instead of working
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Decorous
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Proper and dignified
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Deleterious
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Harmful
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Denigrate
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To damage the reputation of
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Didactic
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Educational
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Dilatory
Intending to delay
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Disseminate
To spread widely
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Ebullient
Extremely excited or enthusiastic
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Eclectic
Made up of choices from diverse sources
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Efficacious
Effective
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Eminent
Distinguished and prominent
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Empirical
Resulting from an experiment
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Enervated
Lacking strength or vigor
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Enigma
A Puzzle
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Equanimity
Steadiness if mind under stress
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Equivocate
To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold info
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Esoteric
Intended for a select group of people; secret or confidential
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Espouse
To adopt or marry (such as an idea or cause)
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Evanescent
Vanishing
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Exonerate
To clear from blame
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Exorbitant
Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
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Exuberant
Overflowing ESP with joy
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Facetious
Not intended to be taken seriously
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Fastidious
Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please
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Felicity
Pleasing an appropriate style
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Garrulous
Excessively talkative or wordy
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Gratuitous
Free; given without reason
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Gregarious
Sociable
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Hackneyed
Repeated too often; over familiar through overuse
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Harangue
A long pompous speeh
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Impervious
Not capable of being affected
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Impugn
To attack as false or wrong
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Incongruity
The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
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Incorrigible
Incapable of being corrected or punished
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Indigenous
Native to
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Ineffable
Incapable of being put into words
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Insipid
Bland full or uninteresting
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Insolence
Rudeness
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Intransigent
Refusing to yield or compromise
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Juxtapose
To place side by side
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Machination
A crafty plot
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Magnanimous
Nobel and generous in spirit
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Malevolent
Evil
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Malleable
Capable of being shaped or influenced
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Mendacious
Lying false or untue
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Meritocracy
A form o f social system in which power goes to those with superior abilities
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Morose
Gloomy
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Nefarious
Extremely wicked
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Obdurate
Stubborn
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Obsequious
Overly flattering or obedient
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Opulent
Rich and luxurious
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Ostensible
Pretended
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Pedagogical
Relating to education or teaching
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Pedantic
Overly focused on small details while teaching or learning
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Perspicacity
Intelligence manifested by being astute
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Petulant
Easily irritated over small issues
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Precocious
Advanced in development or maturity
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Pristine
Pure clean or unused
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Proliferate
To grow rapidly
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Prosaic
Dull and lacking excitement
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Querulous
Complaining
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Quiescent
Being quiet or still or inactive
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Rancorous
Showing deep seated resentment
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Raucous
Unpleasantly loud and harsh
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Repudiate
To reject
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Repugnant
Offensive
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Sagacious
Acutely insightful and wise
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Sanctimonious
Being hypocritically religious or righteous
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Sanguine
Confidently optimistic and cheerful
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Scintillating
Brilliantly clever or flashy and exciting
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Sedulous
Marked by persistent effort
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Solicitous
Anxious eager or worried
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Spurious
False joy legitimate
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Subterfuge
Something intended to deceive
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Surreptitious
Stealthily and secret
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Tacit
Unspoken and implied
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Tenuous
Very thin; lacking substance
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Truculence
Brutal cruelty and aggressiveness
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Tumultuous
Characterized by unrest commotion or agitation
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Vociferous
Marked by loud outery
