Big Flashcards
(50 cards)
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cogent
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Strong and to the point
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Intransigent
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Refusing to compromise
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Exigent
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Urgent
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Solicitous
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Showing care or worry
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Celerity
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Speed
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Engender
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To bring about
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Feign
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To make up or invent
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Vehement
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Strongly emotional
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Inveigh
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To attack strongly in words
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Surmise
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To draw a conclusion
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Pastoral
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Having to do with the country
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Egregious
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Standing out sharply as wrong or bad
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Abscond
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To leave in a illegal hurry
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Cryptic
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Hard to understand
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Overt
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Public
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Subtext
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The hidden or underlying meaning of something
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Esprit
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Liveliness
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Discursive
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Wandering from one topic to another
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Concur
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To agree in an opinion or decision
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Succor
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Badly needing help
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Obsequious
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Too willing to serve or obey
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Segue
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Movement from one thing to another
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Ensue
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To come after
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Mores
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Attitude or behaviors that are followed like laws
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Morose
Gloomy
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Artifice
Clever trickery
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Iconoclast
A person who attacks or mocks things most people believe in
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Purview
Range of skills or authority
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Capitulate
To yield
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Caprice
Sudden change of intention
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Anathema
Something hated or strongly avoided
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Loquacious
Very talkative
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Circumlocution
Roundabout or overly long way of saying something
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Colloquy
Formal conversation or dialogue
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Coniferous
Loud and noisy in making one’s feelings known
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Reticent
Not saying much tight-lipped
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Tacit
Understood as meant but not openly said
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Verbiage
An over abundance of words
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Verbose
Using too many words
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Adumbrate
To briefly outline or describe
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Apprise
To make aware of
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Derisive
Treating with ridicule
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Risible
Drawing laughter or amusement
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Felicitous
Perfectly suitable
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Abstruse
Difficult to grasp or learn
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Adroit
Skillful or clever
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Vacuous
Empty of intelligence
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Tenable
Able to be defended
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Contend
To argue or dispute
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Tendentious
Strongly biased
