101 Words Part 3 Flashcards
(33 cards)
1
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Solvent
A
Able to pay off debts
2
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Poor cluster
A
Indigent Insolvent Impoverished Penurious Destitute Parsimonious
3
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Impervious
A
Not penetrable, unresponsive
4
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Improvident
A
Thriftless
5
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Inadvertence
A
Carelessness, oversight
6
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Ingratiate
A
Become popular with
7
Q
Innocuous
A
Harmless
8
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Harmful cluster
A
Deleterious Detrimental Pernicious Baneful Baleful
9
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Irascible
A
Irritable, easily angered
10
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Jocund
A
Funny, merry
11
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Judicious
A
Wise, determined by sound judgement
12
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Kleptomaniac
A
Person with compulsive desire to steal
13
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Knoll
A
Small hill
14
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Maudlin
A
Effusively sentimental
15
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Mawkish
A
Excessively sentimental
16
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Treacle
A
Molasses
17
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Mendacious
A
False, lying
18
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Nadir
A
Low point
19
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Naïveté
A
Quality of being unsophisticated
20
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Obdurate
A
Stubborn
21
Q
Stubborn cluster
A
Intransigent
Calcitrant
Obstinate
22
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Odious
A
Hateful
23
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Onerous
A
Burdensome
Ex: onerous duties
24
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Overt
A
Obvious
25
Fetid
Noisome, smelly
26
Noisome
Harmful, unwholesome
Or
Smelly
27
Occult
Hard to understand
28
Esoteric
Difficult to understand, know to only a few people
29
Occult cluster
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Esoteric
Abstruse
Ex: abstruse theory
Abstract
Recondite
Ex: a recondite treaty
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30
Ossify
Become stagnant
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Tepid
Lukewarm
32
Torpid
Yawning, tired
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Impecunious
Poor
