Advanced 6 Flashcards

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Transmute

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Change or alter in form, appearance, or nature

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Stultify

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Cause one, through routine, to lose energy or enthusiasm

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Discursive

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Tending to depart from the main point

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Pontificate

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Talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner

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Dolorous

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Showing sorrow

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Vaunted

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Highly or widely praised or boasted about

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Desideratum

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Something desired as a necessity

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Pellucid

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Transparently clear, easily understandable

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Inviolable

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Never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored

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Doughty

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Brave bold; courageous

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Autocratic

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Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule

Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

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Gumption

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Resourcefulness and determination

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Aplomb

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Great coolness and composure under strain

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Bromide

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A trite or obvious remark

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Complicit

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Associated with or participating in an activity, esp. one of a questionable nature

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Desiccated

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Uninteresting, lacking vitality

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Coterminous

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Being of equal extent or scope or duration

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Turgid

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(Of language) pompous and tedious

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Elegiac

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Expressing sorrow

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Conflate

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Mix together different elements or concepts

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Hauteur

Hoh-tur

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Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

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Proselytize

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Convert (someone) to another religion, philosophy, or perspective

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Panegyric

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A formal expression of praise

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Self-effacing

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Reluctant to draw attention to yourself

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Noisome
Having an extremely bad smell
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Conflagration
A very intense and uncontrolled fire
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Ethereal
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
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Afford
Provide with an opportunity
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Solicitous
Showing hovering attentiveness
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Impervious
Not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
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Enormity
An act of extreme wickedness
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Unassailable
Immune to attack; without flaws
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Abjure
Formally reject or give up (as a belief)
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Inequity
Injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards
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Bridle
The act of restraining power or action or limiting excess To react with anger or to take offense
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Fecund
Intellectually productive