333 highly used words Flashcards
(89 cards)
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Abate
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Subside/less intense
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Aberrant
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Abnormal/deviant
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Beneficent
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Kindly/ doing good
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Bolster
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Support/reinforce
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Capricious
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Unpredictable/fickle minded
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Castigation
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punishment
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Abeyance
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Suspended action
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Abscond
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depart secretly and hide
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Abstemious
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sparring( being economical ) in eating and drinking
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Banal
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unoriginal/ not possessing freshness
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Belie
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Contradict/ give a false impression
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Caustic
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Burning/ being sarcastic
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Chicanery
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Trickery/ deception
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Coda
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Ending part of a musical ( song, poem)
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Admonish
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Warn/ reprove
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Alleviate
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Relieve / to make easier to endure
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Amalgamate
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combine
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Ambiguous
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Unclear/ doubtful in meaning
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Bombastic
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Pompous / using inflated words
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Boorish
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Rude/ insensitive
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Burgeon
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grow forth. eg plant
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Burnish
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Make shiny by rubbing/ polish ( image,skills,metal)
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Cogent
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Convincing reason
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Commensurate
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Proportionate
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Compendium
Brief/ summary
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Complaisant
Trying to please / being overly polite
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Ameliorate
Improve
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Anarchronism
Something or someone misplaced in time
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Analogous
Compare
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Antipathy
Dislike/ aversion (dislike)
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Buttress
prop/ support ( usually building )
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Compliant
obey/ meet with rules and regulation
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Conciliatory
Reconcile ( come to an agreement )/ placate ( to soothe )
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Condone
forgive / overlook
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Confound
confuse / puzzle
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Contentious
Argumentative / quarrelsome (having a heated argument)
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Anarchy
absence of governing body / state of disorder
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Anomalous
abnormal/ irregular
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Apathy
lacking of caring / interest / indifference (lack of interest )
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Appease
soothe / pacify / to satisfy
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Connoisseur
best judge in a field
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Contrite
Penitent ( expressing sorrow for a sin and disposed to atonement )
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Conundrum
riddle / puzzle / a problem
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Converge
meet in a point / approach
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Apprise
inform / advise
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Approbation
approve
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Appropriate
Take possession for own use / acquire
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Arduous
hard/ tiring/ difficult (usually trips)
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Convoluted
involved / intricate / complicated
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Craven
cowardly
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Daunt
intimidate / frighten
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Decorum
Orderliness / polite & respectable behaviour
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Default
Failure to act
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Deference
courteous (polite) regard / showing respect
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Ascetic
practicing self denial ( sacrifice of own's desire )
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Austere
Severely simple/ unornamented / strict
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Attenuate
reduce thickness / effect / force / form
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Assuage
soothe anger / lessen pain / satisfy hunger
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Aver
assert confidently / declare
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Delineate
portray / depict / sketch
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Denigrate
blacken / criticize
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Deride
Make fun off
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Desicate
Dry up
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Ebullient
showing excitement
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Eclectic
selective / made from disparate source
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Efficacy
Power to produce desired effect
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Effrontery
shameless / sheer nerve / presumptuousness
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Elegy
a poem or song expressing lamentation ( sorrow ) ( usually played at funerals )
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Facetious
Joking inappropriately / humourous
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Facilitate
Help bring about / make less difficult/ make easy
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Fallacious
Misleading / false
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Fatuous
brainless / foolish / inane (lacking sense)
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Fawning
Trying to please by behaving desperate/ displaying exaggerated flattering
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Desultory
Aimless / haphazard / digress
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Deterrent
Something that discourages / a hinderance
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Diatribe
bitter scolding / angry speech
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Dichotomy
Split / division of 2 opposing group
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Diffidence
Shyness / lacking confidence
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Diffuse
spread out / wordy
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Elicit
Draw out by discussion
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Evoke
to call up / summon / produce
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Embellish
ornament / enhance ( a story ,looks )
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Adorn
to decorate
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Empirical
based on experience or observation
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Emulate
imitate / match or surpass someone by imitating
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Endemic
belonging exclusively to an area or a group of peopee
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Felicitous
Well suited / or expressed
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Fervor
Strong feeling
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Flag
to fall of / to hang loosely(droop) / loose enthusiasm
