8.13.14 Flashcards
(56 cards)
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aboveboard
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legitimate, honest, open
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legion
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great in number
3
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thoroughgoing
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absolute
4
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gall
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irritate
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disabuse
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to correct a false notion
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marginalize
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to treat someone as inferior
7
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rankle
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to irritate
8
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debase
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degrade, reduce in value
9
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epigrammatic
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concise
10
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prudence
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wise, cautious
11
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presumptuous
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bold, brazen
12
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sumptuous
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lavish
13
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agog
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excited, eager
14
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hobnobbing
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social mingling
15
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machinating
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plotting, scheming
16
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vicissitude
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change for the worse
17
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apotheosis
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the highest point in the development of something, climax, culmination
18
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retiring
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shy, reserved
19
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disarming
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winning, charming, persuasive
20
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torrid
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hot and dry
21
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untoward
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inconvenient, unexpected
22
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ineffably
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indescribably
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winsome
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charming, attractive
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cede
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give up
25
penury
poverty
26
spendthrift
spends a lot
27
indigent
poor, needy
28
pernicious
harmful
29
impecunious
having little money
30
calumny
slander
31
debonair
confident, stylish, charming
32
implacable
unpleasable, unforgiving
33
stolid
calm, showing little emotion
34
austere
lacking decoration, comforts, luxuries
35
spartan
lacking decoration, comforts, luxuries
36
dilettante
one with superficial knowledge of the arts
37
surveyor
assesses the value of something
38
polymath
person learned in many fields
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fabulist
one who makes up stories
40
consummate
complete
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protracted
lengthy
42
lachrymose
sad, tearful
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penurious
having no money
44
chimera
fanciful notion
45
preclude
prevent
46
pilloried
attack
47
nonplussed
dumbfounded, surprised
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dispatch
quickness, speediness
49
repute
fame, distinction
50
sanguine
optimistic
51
abandon
uninhibitedness
52
churlish
rude, mean spirited in a surly way
53
redoubtable
formidable, fearsome, impressive
54
tempestuous
stormy, turbulent
55
studied
contrived, done artificially
56
affectation
behavior/speech artificial and designed to impressed
