Advanced 4 Flashcards

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Encumber

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Hold back

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2
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Irrefutable

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Impossible to deny or disprove

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3
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Unpropitious

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(Of a circumstance) with little chance of success

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4
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Peripatetic

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Traveling by foot

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5
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Corollary

kuh-rol-uh-ree

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A practical consequence that follows naturally

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6
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Asperity

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Harshness of manner

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7
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Ribald

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Humorously vulgar

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8
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Tempestuous

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As if driven by turbulent or conflicting emotions; highly energetic and wildly changing or fluctuating

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9
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Immure

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To enclose, usually in walls

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10
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Ossify

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Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

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11
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Patent

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Glaringly obvious

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12
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Firebrand

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Someone who deliberately creates trouble

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13
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Dispensation

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An exemption from a rule or obligation

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14
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Presentiment

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A feeling of evil to come

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15
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Unviable

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Not able to work, survive, or succeed (also spelled inviable)

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16
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Crestfallen

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Brought low in spirit

17
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Recrimination

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Mutual accusations

18
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Lacerate

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Deeply hurt the feelings of; distress

19
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Inviolate

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Must be kept sacred

20
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Flippant

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Showing inappropriate levity

21
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Hobble

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To hold back the progress of something

22
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Dovetail

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Fit together tightly, as if by means of an interlocking joint

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Improvident

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Not given careful consideration

24
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Incontrovertible

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Necessarily or demonstrably true; impossible to deny or disprove

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Puissant
Powerful
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Equitable
Fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
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Invidious
Likely to cause resentment
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Celerity | suh-ler-i-tee
Speed, rapidity
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Magisterial
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising unwarranted power
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Stalwart
Dependable; inured to fatigue or hardships
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Cosset
Treat with excessive indulgence
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Intimation
An indirect suggestion
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Spartan
Unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgement; practicing great self-denial
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Machinate
Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together
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Crystallize
Cause to take on a definite and clear shape