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Test Prep 4 Flashcards

1
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Lackadaisical

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Lazy and unenthusiastic

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Largesse

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Generous giving of money or gift

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3
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Lionize

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To give a lot of public attention and approval

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4
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Lurid

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Shocking

Look red

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5
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Maladroit

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Unskilled, awkward

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6
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Mire

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To cause to become stuck in mud, trap in a difficult situation

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7
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Multifarious

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Different types

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8
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Nominal

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Very small, insignificant

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Omniscient

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All knowing

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10
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Outstrip

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To go faster, to exceed

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11
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Overwrought

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Overly elaborate

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12
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Palpable

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Able to be touched or noticed

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13
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Pantheon

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An group of important or notable people or things

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14
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Patent

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Obvious

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15
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Pedantic

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Nitpicky

Pedant- is one who makes a show of knowledge, especially by correcting small errors

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Pejorative

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Expressing disapproval or criticism

Cajole- means expressing flattery, Pejole meaning expressing disapproval

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17
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Pious

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Devoutly religious

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18
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Pithy

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Using few words but well-expressed

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19
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Plaintive

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Sad and mournful

plain(plane)+tive(relative).

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20
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Plodding

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Slow and boring

Plodding yourself in the couch

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Poignant

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Evoking tender sadness, touching

She points at the squashed ant and feels sad

22
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Precipitious

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Dangerously steep

He has a PRECIPITATE(without thinking carefully) decision : climb a very PRECIPITOUS cliff

23
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Precocious

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Exhibiting qualities or abilities of an adult at an unusually early age

24
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Proclivity

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A tendency towards something bad

pro(forward) + clivity( think of cliff or high slope, prone to slipping towards it)

25
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Profuse

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Very Large amounts

26
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Provincial

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Narrow minded and unsophisticated; small town

27
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Purport

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to claim to be something falsely

Purpose of report -

28
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Quandary

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A state of uncertainity

29
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Quintessential

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Typical, most perfect of its kind

30
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Redouble

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To intensify or greatly increase

31
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Respite

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Short period of rest or relief

Respirar, you need to breathe to rest after excercise

32
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Revere

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To greatly admire and respect

33
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Salable

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Able to fit to be sold

34
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Salient

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Relevant, most noticeable

35
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Slew

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A large amount

36
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Solicitous

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Showing care and concern for the need of others

37
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Stilted

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Stiff and unnatural seeming

Stilletos-make you unnatural curve

38
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Strife

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Angry or bitter disagreement or conflict

39
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Subvert

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To weaken

40
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Suffuse

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To spread throughout

41
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Surmise

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To suppose something is true without strong evidence

42
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Surreptitious

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Done secretly

43
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Sycophant

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A suck-up

Sycophant- psycho lawyers want to suck up

44
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Tenable

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Able to be maintained or defended

The tenant was able to defend his house

45
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Tacit

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Understood without being stated

46
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Tact

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Skillful inoffensiveness in speech or manners

47
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Titillate

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To interest or excite esp in a sexual way

48
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Transient

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Short-lived

49
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Typify

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To be typical or representative example of

50
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Uncanny

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Strange or mysterious

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