Aspen Flashcards by Kelsey Hines

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Intrepid

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Fearless & daring

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Contrite

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Feeling sorry or remorseful

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Scrupulous

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Honest & Careful about doing things correctly

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Pusillanimous

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Timid; lack of courage

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Skulduggery

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Trickery (Legerdemain)

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Surreptitious

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Sly

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Abrogate

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To abolish/cancel/to appeal

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Legerdemain

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Slight of hand (Skulduggery)

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Placate

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To appease (Mollify/Propitiate/Assuage)

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Mollify

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To appease (Placate/Propitiate/Assuage)

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Propitiate

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To appease (Placate/Mollify/Assuage)

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Assuage

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To appease (Placate/Mollify/Propitiate)

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Facetious

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Treating a serious issue with humor; flippant

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Banal

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Lacking in originality (Vapid)

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Platitudinous

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A statement that is used too often to be interesting

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Buttress

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To strengthen/ A source of defense

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Elucidate

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To make clear/explain

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Calumniate

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To maliciously spread false statements (Slander)

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Prevaricate

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To speak or act in an evasive way

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Equivocate

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Use ambiguous language so as to hide the truth or avoid committing oneself

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Obfuscate

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To make things unclear/obscure or unintelligible; bewilder

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Diaphanous

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Light/Delicate/Transparent fabric

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Stygian

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Dark (Styx River)

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Avaricious

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Greedy

Parsimonious

Excessively frugal/thrifty (penurious)

Penurious

Excessively frugal/thrifty (parsimonious)

Rapacious

Greedy/ravenous/ "rapey" (avaricious)

Inane

Silly/stupid (Fatuous)

Boor

Crude

Calumny

A false or malicious accusation/misrepresentation

Caustic

Bitter & Sarcastic

Credulous

Gullible

Curmudgeon

Cranky old person

Diffident

Lacking self confidence

Effrontery

Bold disrespect/audacity

Fatuous

Foolish (inane)

Amalgamate

Combine/Unite/Merge

Ersatz

Fake/not genuine