9&10 Flashcards

(50 cards)

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Amiable

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Friendly, social, and congenial

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Crass

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Coarse, crude, unrefined

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Discursive

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Rambling, moving to one topic from another randomly

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Docile

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Easily managed, obedient, passive

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Estrange

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To alienate, to separate

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Exonerate

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To free from blame or obligation

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Gratuitous

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Given freely, unwarranted

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Ambiguous

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Having more than one meaning, unclear, uncertain

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9
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Hypothesize

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To reach a conclusion based off of an assumption

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Indignation

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Anger as a result of something unjust

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Induce

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To bring on or to bring about

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Intractable

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Stubborn, difficult to manage

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Introspective

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The quality of examining one’s own mind or thoughts

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Lucid

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Easily understood, mentally sound

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Meticulous

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Taking great care

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Misanthrope

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Hater of mankind

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Munificent

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Very generous

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Plagiarize

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To steal and to use another’s writings for one’s own

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Profuse

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Extravagantly abundant, flowing freely

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Recluse

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A person who lives in solitude, a hermit

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Sated

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Satisfied fully, indulged to excess

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Stupefy

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To dull the senses as to put into a stupor

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Terse

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Transient

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Quickly passing, fleeting

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Virtuoso
One killed in the fine arts as a musician, a savant
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Abstracted
Removed in thought from the immediate situation, out in one's own mind
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Adulation
Extreme praise or admiration
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Adversity
Misfortune, unfavorable happening
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Burgeon
To sprout, to newly emerge
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Chimera
A fantasy, a horrible creature of the imagination
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Culpable
Deserving blame, guilty
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Decadent
Decaying
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Entreaty
A plea, an earnest request
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Fatuous
Foolish, silly in an obnoxious way, inane
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Humane
Kind, compassionate, sympathetic and considerate
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Indulgent
Lenient, especially toward oneself
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Ineptness
Lack of competence or judgement
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Ingrate
An ungrateful person
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Inundate
To flood, to overflow
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Miser
One who lives in wretched circumstances to save and hoard money
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Nefarious
Extremely wicked, evil, vicious
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Prattle
Meaningless sounds, babble
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Predilection
Preference
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Procrastinate
TO defer action, to delay
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Stoic
Not showing passion or feeling
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Suffrage
Right to vote
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Summon
To call together, to for or request to appear
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Transparent
Quality of being able to be seen through, clear
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Turbulence
Wild or disturbing activity
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Viable
Capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately