List E Flashcards by Eunice lee | Brainscape

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Protean

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Able to change easily

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Anticlimax

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Disappointment

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Virulent

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Poisonous

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Credulous

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Gullible

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious

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Biased

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Unfairly prejudiced for/against someone/something

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Distressed

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Extreme anxiety

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Impassioned

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Filled with great emotion

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Dailiness

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Regularly

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Negligent

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Facing to take proper care in doing something

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Engagement

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Involvement

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Naïveté

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Innocence

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Instill

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Gradually but firmly establish in persons mind

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Conviviality

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Friendly kind

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Infinitesimal

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Extremely small

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Stagnant

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Unchanging

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Ingenious

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Clever

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Summation

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Summary

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Altruism

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Unselfish concern for others

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Prescient

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Having knowledge of future events

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Latitude

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Freedom

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Compilation

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Collection

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Commemorate

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Celebrate

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Uncorroborated

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Not supported by evidence

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Ephemeral

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Brief

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Histrionics

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Dramatic and exaggerated

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Dolce

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Gently and sweetly

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Tabernacle

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Small tent for holy meeting

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Trespass

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Entering the owners land or property without permission

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Hubris

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Arrogance

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Seminal

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Important

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Intransigent

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Uncompromising; not sharing

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Platitude

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Commonplace

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Antithetical

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Opposite

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Adulatory

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Excessively admiring

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Venality

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Corruption

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Measured

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Deliberate

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Lampooned

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Satire

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Uninspiring

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Not producing interest

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Restoring

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Recover

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Vignette

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Short description

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Myopic

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Short sighted

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Sophist

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Thinker

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Solitary

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Lonely alone

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Demonstrative

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Open expression of emotion

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Venality

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Dishonesty

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Compounded

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Complex

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Debacle

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Break down

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Uneven

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Unbalanced