Vocab 121-150 Flashcards by Rebecca Underwood | Brainscape

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Mire

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A stretch of swampy are boggy ground

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Multifarious

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Many end of various types

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Mundane

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Dull or boring

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Nefarious

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Wicked or criminal

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Obsequious

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive degree

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Odious

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Extremely unpleasant or repulsive

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Opaque

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Not transparent

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Meticulous

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Showing great attention to detail

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Ostentatious

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Designed to impress or attract notice

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Palpable

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Able to be touched or felt

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Paragon

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A model of excellence

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Pariah

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An outcast

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Parochial

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Relating to a church parish

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Paucity

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Scarcity

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Pedantic

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Perfectionist

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Pejorative

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Expressing disapproval

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Philistine

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A person who has no understanding to culture and the arts

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Pique

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Feeling of irritation or resentment

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Pithy

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Forcefully expressive

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Poignant

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Sense of sadness or regret

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Polemical

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Controversial writing or speech

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Precocious

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Having develop certain abilities an earlier age than others

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Proclivity

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Tendency to choose or do something regularly

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Progeny

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Offspring of a person

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Prolific

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Producing much fruit or many offspring

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Prosaic

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Having ordinary style or diction

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Protean

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Changes frequently

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Protract

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Prolong

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Pugnacity

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Having a quarrelsome nature

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Pulchritude

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Beauty