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Section 1 Flashcards

1
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Bold

A

audacious
courageous
dauntless

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Changing Quickly

A

capricious
mercurial
volatile

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3
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Hesitate

A 
dither
vacillate
oscillate
waver
teeter
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4
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Act Quickly

A 
apace
impetuous
abrupt
precipitate
headlong
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5
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Innocent/lnexperienced

A 
novitiate
tyro
gullible
credulous
naive
ingenuous
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6
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Difficult to Understand

A

abstruse, bemusing, esoteric,opaque,
recondite, ambiguous, cryptic, inscrutable,
paradoxical, turbid, arcane, enigmatic,
obscure, perplexing

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Easy to Understand

A 
articulate
evident
limpid
lucid
pellucid
eloquent
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8
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Smart/Learned

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perspicacious
erudite
astute
canny

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Criticize/Criticism

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aspersion, berate, belittle, calumny, castigate, decry,defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe,disparage, excoriate,gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurate,obloquy, opprobrium,pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vitupterate

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Carousal

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bacchanalian, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude

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Truth

A

candor, candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity

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Falsehood

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apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious, mendacity, perfidy

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Biting (wit or temperament)

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acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant

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Praise

A 
acclaim
accolade
aggrandize
encomium
eulogize
extol
fawn
laud/laudatory
venerate/veneration
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Harmful

A 
baleful
baneful
deleterious
inimical
injurious
insidious
minatory
perfidious
pernicious
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Timid/Timidity

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craven
diffident
pusillanimous
recreant
timorous
trepidation
17
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Boring

A 
banal
fatuous
hackneyed
insipid
mundane
pedestrian
platitude
prosaic
quotidian
trite
18
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Weaken

A 
adulterate
enervate
exacerbate
inhibit
obviate
stultify
undermine
vitiate
19
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Assist

A 
abet
advocate
ancillary
bolster
corroborate
countenance
espouse
mainstay
munificent
proponent
stalwart
sustenance
20
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Hostile

A 
antithetic
churlish
curmudgeon
irascible
malevolent
misanthropic
truculent
vindictive

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