3&4 Flashcards by erica Pinkham

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Affable

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Friendly, courteous

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Audacity

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Excessive boldness

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Contrite

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Extremely apologetic, remorseful

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Credulous

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Believing on slight evidence, gullible

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Depravity

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Moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act

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Deprecate

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To disapprove regretfully, to belittle

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Didactic

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Instructive, designed to teach

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Dormant

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Inactive, sleeping

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious, inexplicable

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Erudite

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Scholarly

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Exotic

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Foreign, unfamiliar

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Fuse

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To mix or join

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Immutable

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Unchanging

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Incorrigible

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Incapable of improvement

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Loathe

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To detest

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Mitigate

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To cause or become less hostile or harsh

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Nullify

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To cause not to be in effect, to negate

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Pacisiftic

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Opposed to war or use of force

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Pretentious

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Making an extravagant outward show, self-important

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Prologue

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Introductory remarks in a speech, play, or literary work

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Recant

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To withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief

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Servile

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Overly submissive

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Trepidation

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Fear, trembling, agitation

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Vilify

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Malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against

Aesthetic

Relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art

Aloof

Apart, indifferent

Archaic

Old, antique

Assuage

To ease, to mitigate, to calm

Belie

To contradict, to give a false impression

Contentious

Quarrelsome, stirring controversy

Daunt

To intimidate

Debilitate

To weaken, to enfeeble

Discord

Strife, tension

Dissemination

The act of so ready widely, scattering

Dogmatic

Strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner

Duplicity

Double-dealing, hypocrisy

Egocentric

Self-centered, selfish

Euphemism

Substitution of an offensive term

Gluttonous

Greedy for food or drink

Mundane

Ordinary, commonplace

Ominous

Threatening

Petulance

Unreasonable touchiness or irritability

Pompous

Exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance

Precocious

Exceptionally early in development

Slothful

Lazy, indolent

Trivia

Insignificant matters

Verbose

Wordy, very talkative

Virulent

Extremely poisonous, hateful

Volatile

Quickly changeable, easily vaporized

Abstruse

Difficult to understand