APLAC Vocabulary 16 Flashcards
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Bourgeois
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Conformity to the middle class or average standards; conventional, ordinary
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Arcane
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Known or understood by only a few, mysterious, secret, obscure
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Exculpate
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To clear of guilt; declare innocent; vindicate
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Fulsome
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Insincere; overly flattering, unctuous
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Masticate
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To chew
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Matriculate
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To be admitted into college
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Mercurial
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Volatile; quickly changing, capricious
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Nascent
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Emerging; beginning to exist, new
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Parity
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Equality, equivalence
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Salubrious
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Healthful
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Squelch
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To suppress; squash, repress
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Tangential
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Digressive from the main point
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Trenchant
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Keen; incisive, acute, sharply defined
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Tyro
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A beginner; novice; amateur
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Venial
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Easily excused, minor, pardonable
