All Words Flashcards

(45 cards)

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Alacrity

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Enthusiasm ex: she accepted the invitation with alacrity

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Aberrant

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Out of the norm ex: aberrant chromosomes

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Anomaly

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Something abnormal

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Approbation

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Praise

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Audacious

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Crazy daring

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Capricious

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Unpredictable: capricious climate

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Censure

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Rebuke verb to censure

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Connoisseur

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Expert especially in taste: connoisseur in music

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Discordant

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Harsh

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Disparate

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1.
essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison.
“they inhabit disparate worlds of thought”
synonyms: contrasting, different, differing, dissimilar, unalike, poles apart; More
antonyms: homogeneous
containing elements very different from one another.
“a culturally disparate country”

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Elequent

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Well spoken

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Enervate

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cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.

synonyms: exhaust, tire, fatigue, weary, wear out, devitalize, drain, sap, weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, incapacitate, prostrate; More
antonyms: invigorate

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Ennui

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a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:
The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.

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Equvicate

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To use ambiguous language

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Exculpate

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Exonerate

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Exigent

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Urgent

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Filibuster

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Obstruction of legislation

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Ingenious

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Opposite of eloquent artless frank

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Inured

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Accepting bad (like injured) children inured to violence southern cities in Israel inured to rockets

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Magnanimity

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Martial

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Associated with war

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Mundane

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Typical everyday

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Nascent
Coming into being (especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential. "the nascent space industry" synonyms: just beginning, budding, developing, growing, embryonic, incipient, young, fledgling, evolving, emergent, dawning, burgeoning "the nascent economic recovery"
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Nebulous
Vague lacking clear form
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Noxious
Harmful poisonous
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Obtuse
Stupid
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Obviate
To avoid problem
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Onerous
Burdensome
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Parody
Numerous imitation
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Perennial
Recurrent through the years
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Perfunctory
Done without care
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Prattle
Talk in idle manner
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Prescience
Foreknowledge of events
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Prevaricate
To mislead
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Refute
Prove wrong
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Relegate
To assign lower position
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Solicitous
Concerned attentive
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Static
Not moving
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Stupefy
To amaze
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Tortuous
Winding excessively complicated
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Truculent
Cruel eager to fight
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Voracious
Ravenous
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Waver
Sway opinions