13&14 Flashcards

(50 cards)

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Apathy

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A lack if concern or feeling, indifference

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Caricature

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A portrayal where features are distorted, a parody

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Cordial

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Courteous and gracious, friendly, warm

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Cosmopolitan

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Dealing with the whole world

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Deplore

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To regret deeply or strongly, to feel or to express deep grief for

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Discrepant

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Disagreeing, inconsistent

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8
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Ecstasy

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Extreme happiness

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Empathy

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Understanding or identification with another’s feelings or situation

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Equivocal

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Ambiguous, usually intended to mislead

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Expeditious

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Done with speed and efficiency

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12
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Galvanize

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To simulate or to excite as if by an electric shock

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13
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Implacable

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Incapable of being appeased

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Inimitable

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Not able to be imitated

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Mutability

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The degree to which something is subject and likely to change

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Odious

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Deserving hate or contempt

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Parochial

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Limited in range or scope, narrow, provincial

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Penchant

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A strong inclination

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Ponderous

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Very heavy, unwieldy from weight

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Protract

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To prolong

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Replete

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Filled to capacity, abundantly supplied

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Soporific

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Something that tends to cause sleep and to dill awareness or alertness

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Strident

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Loud and harsh sounding

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Treachery

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Violation of faith, betrayal of trust, treason

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Adulterate
To make impure by adding lesser substances, to corrupt
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Animosity
Harsh feelings, enmity, resentment, hatred
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Apocryphal
Of doubtful origin or authenticity, not genuine
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Avarice
Greed for wealth
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Coalesce
To merge, to fuse, to join, or to unite
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Collaborate
To work together
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Cryptic
Mysterious, secret
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Desultory
Jumping around, aimless, random
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Dissipation
Wasteful spending, squandering
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Edifying
Instructing and improving spiritually or morally
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Equivocate
To attempt to lie, to mislead, or to hide the truth
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Espousing
Marrying, giving one's loyalty, adopting or embracing a cause
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Hedonist
One who seeks pleasure as the sole aim in life
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Indefatigable
Tireless, incapable of being fatigued
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Interminable
Having or seeming to have no end, wearisomely protracted
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Naive
Unsophisticated, inexperienced
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Parody
Humorous or ridiculous imitation
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Peripheral
On the edge, not important
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Portent
A sign or forewarning
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Prodigious
Extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree, great in size, enormous
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Profane
Showing contempt toward sacred things
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Respite
A rest, a delay, a period of relief
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Sordid
Filthy, foul
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Surfeited
Fed or supplied to excess
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Trifling
Not significant, frivolous
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Allure
To influence, sway, or entice with some tempting appeal