Alex First Deck Flashcards

(43 cards)

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Boist

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Very hot weather
Overheated
Sexual frustration
When commenting on a hot girl
Rude hut
Box

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Boisterous

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Full of energy, exuberant, noisy
2. Characterized by violence and agitation, wild stormy

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3
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Looming

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Of a event] seemingly about to happen and regarded as omnious or worrying

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4
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Taunt

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A remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone

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5
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Sham

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A thing that is not what it is purported to be

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Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere

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Cumbersome

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large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy

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Facetious

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Not to be taken literally

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9
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Convoluted

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Extremely difficult to follow

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Preposterous

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Contrary to reason, absurd

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Capricious

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Subject to sudden change

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12
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Nascent

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Begin to exist

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13
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Admonish

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Warn or reprimand someone

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14
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Extol

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Praise highly

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15
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Embezzlement

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fraudulent money

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16
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Presumptious

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Showing no respect for others

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17
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Acummen

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The ability to make good judgment and take quick decisions

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Jagged

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Having a sharply uneven edge or surface

19
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Sheer

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Use to emphasize how very great important, powerful a quality or feeling is. Nothing except

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Haughty

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Arrogant, superior and disdainful

21
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Trudge

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Walk slowly and heavy steps. Typically of exhaustion or harsh conditions

22
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Scythe

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Device to cut tall grass, used by the death

23
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Toil

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Exhausting work or labour. Synonym to work

24
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Drenched

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To wet through and through; soak.

To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).

To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit.

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Bashed
Strike hard and violently
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Coveted
Yearn to posses or to have something
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Plunder
Steal goods or something by force
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Dawdling
Move slowly and idly in a particular direction
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Skirmsh
Episode of irregular and unpremeditated fighting
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Smidge
A very small part of
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Vanquished
Having defeated someone
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Appealing
Apply a higher court for a reversal on a decision of a lower court
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Appalling
Horrible
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Fainting
Temporary loss of consciousness
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Flaunt
Display ostensibly
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Herd
Group of animals
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Dazzling
Brilliant blinding light
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Nuanced
Characterised by subtle shades of meaning or expresion, opposite to oversimplified
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Buoyant
Cheerful and optimistic
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Privy
Sharing in the knowledge, To be told information that is not shared with many people I.E. no longer privy
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Levy
Imposed tax or tariffs
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Overdraft
Deficit in a bank account
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Oversight
An unintentional failure to notice or do something