Additional Part II Flashcards

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Contemptuous

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Showing or expressing disdain; scornful; disrespectful

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Deceitful

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Tending to deceive; misleading

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Didactic

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Intended to teach

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Impetuous

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Characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.

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Inclusive

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Including the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account

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Verbose

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The use of too many words

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Edifying

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To instruct or benefit; uplift

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Provocative

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Inciting; stimulation; irritating; or vexing

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Aggregation

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Collection into an unorganized whole

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10
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Prognosis

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Forecast

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Retrenchment

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Cutting down or off

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Preeminent

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Superior; surpassing

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Equivocal

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Of doubtful nature or character; dubious; suspicious

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Tenuous

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Thin in consistency

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Ineffable

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Incapable of being expressed oR described in words; inexpressible

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Incorrigible

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Impervious to constraints or punishment; willful; unruly; uncontrollable

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Vivid

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Full of life

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Gaudy

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Extravagantly bright or showy

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Misnomer

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A wrong or inaccurate name or designation

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Precursor

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A person or thing that precedes or goes before

21
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Curative

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Surfing to cure or heal

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Divisive

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Creating dissension or discord

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Bucolic

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Pertaining to rural life

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Prolific

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Producing in large quantities or with great frequency

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Lugubrious
Mournful, dismal, or gloomy
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Sundry
Various or diverse
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Remonstrance
An act of protesting
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Erudition
Know late a curried by learning
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Lassitude
Lack of energy, listlessness, languor
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Wrongheaded
Wrong judgement or opinion
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Chicanery
Trickery or deception
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Inaugurating
Make a formal beginning of
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Facetious
Not meant to be taken seriously or literally
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Analytical
By analysis
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Cosmopolitan
Free from prejudice or attachments
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Reconcile
To cause to accept something not desired
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Coddle
To treat tenderly
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Oust
To expel or remove from a place or position occupied
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Chid
Express disapproval of
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Unrelenting
not yielding or swerving in determination or resolution
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Sanctimonious
Religious devotion; holy; sacred
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Peruse
To read thoroughly
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Obliterate
To remove or destroy
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Scrutinize
To examine in detail