301-400 Flashcards
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Precocious
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Very gifted, maturing early
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Revelry
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Fun, merriment (revel= to take pleasure in)
2
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Perfunctory
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Listless, hastily, done without attention
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Elegy
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A poem lamenting the dead
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Peruse
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To read thoroughly
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Prodigious
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Huge in size
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Ponderous
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Having great weight, unwieldy, boring
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Proliferate
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To increase, to grow rapidly
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Parsimonious
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Cheap, stingy
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Platitude
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A commonplace remark
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Postulate
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To lay down as self-evident, to assert
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Pulchritude
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Beauty
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Cursory
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Hastily, not detailed, careless
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Abstruse
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Difficult to understand, obscure
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Nefarious
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Wicked
