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5/17 Flashcards

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Ersatz

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Fake

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Salutary

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Beneficial

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Indignant

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Showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair

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Munificent

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Generous

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Malign

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Evil in nature OR to speak about someone in a spitefully critical way (slander)

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Mendacious

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Not telling the truth, lying

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Nugatory

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Of no value of importance, useless

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Clandestine

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Kept secret or done secretly, covert

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Iteration

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A new version of software or computer

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Obsolete

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Out of date, no longer used

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Solipsistic

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The view that the self is all that can be known to exist

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Quixotic

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Exceedingly idealistic, unrealistic, impractical

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Sophomoric

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Pretentious or juvenile

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Ran the gamut

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To encompass the full range or variety possible

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Ape

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To imitate the behavior of

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Cogent

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Clear, logical, convincing

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Cabal

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A secret political clique

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Literati

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Well educated people interested in literature

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Hoi-polloi

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The masses, the common people

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Incendiary

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  1. Very exciting
  2. A person who starts conflict
  3. A person who starts fires
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Dulcet

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Sweet and soothing

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Facile

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  1. Simplistic

2. Easy, effortless

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Stolid

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Calm, dependable, showing little emotion or animation

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Outstrip

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To move faster than and overtake someone else

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Poultices
A moist mass applied to the body to relieve soreness and inflammation
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Foibles
A minor weakness in someone's character
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Mores
The essential characteristic customs and conventions of a community Ex. Social mores
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Peccadilloes
A small, relatively unimportant offense or sin
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Plaudit
Praise
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Paean
A thing that expresses enthusiastic praise
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Indefensible
Unjustified
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Untenable
Incapable of being defended or justified
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Unimpeachable
Can't be criticized or called into question
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Petulant
Whining irritably
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Fastidious
Overly concerned with details
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Genteel
Of or relating to people who have high social status. Or pretending or trying to have these qualities
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Pugnacity
Aggressiveness: a natural disposition to be hostile
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Imperiled
Put at risk of being harmed or destroyed
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Haughtiness
The appearance or quality of being arrogantly superior and disdainful
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Truculence
Defiant aggressiveness
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Valor
Great courage
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Zealot
A person fanatical in pursuit of their ideals. Fanatic, extremist
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Austerity
Sternness or severity of manner or attitude. Extreme plainness and simplicity in style or appearance - lack of worldly pleasures. (Asceticism)
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Censure
To express severe disapproval of someone or something
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Heretic
Belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious
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Ascetic
A person who practices severe self discipline and abstention
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Libertine
A person who behaves without moral principles, especially in sexual matters
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Beleaguered
Surrounded with military forces
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Spuriously
In a way that is not genuine, authentic or true
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Spasmodically
Irregular
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Insatiable
An appetite that cannot be satiated
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Derelict
Neglectful of ones duties
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Inveterate
Habitual
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Untiring
Never losing energy or tiring - positive context
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Jingoism
Excessive patriotism
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Restiveness
Sense of restlessness/difficulty to control. Likely to rebel and have a revolution
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Cupidity
Greed
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Insularity
To be cut off in terms of contact - not cut off in terms of pleasures
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Beatification
Blessedness
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Conciliate
To make peace with
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Remediate
To improve
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Lauds
To praise
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Execrate
To express great loathing for
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Stymies
To prevent
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Plucky
Corageous
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Intractable
Difficult to deal with
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Subvert
To overthrow
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Despondent
In low spirits from loss of hope or courage
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Gamut
Full range
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Dithering
To delay in making a decision
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Obstinacy
Stubbornness
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Volatile
Liable to change rapidly and unpredictably for the worst
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Astute
Having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn to ones advantage
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Inscrutable
Impossible to understand
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Conjecture
A conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information

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