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SAT Summer Intensive > Class 3 Vocab > Flashcards

Class 3 Vocab Flashcards

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Forstall

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Act in advance to prevent, thwart, prevent

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Preternatural

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Supernatural

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Corroborate

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Confirm

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Foible

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Weakness, fragility, eccentricity, idiosyncrasy

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Denizen

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Inhabitant

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Spoof

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Parody, hoax, trick, joke

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Dire

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Terrible, ominous

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Deride

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Ridicule, denigrate, vilify

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Banter

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Talk without making much sense

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Libel

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False statement that is damaging a person’s reputation, defamation, slander

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Finesse

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Skill, knack, panache

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Moribund

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Dying, declining

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Auspicious

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Favorable, promising, optimistic

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Nonplus

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Surprise, confuse, dumbfound

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Sprawling

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Stretch out, lounge, lie down

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Desolate

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Barren, bleak, miserable

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Misnomer

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Wrong or incorrect name

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Precursor

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Ancestor

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Curative

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Therapeutic, healing, curing

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Stringent

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Strict, precise, draconian

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Sundry

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Various, motley, multifarious

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Lugubrious

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Mournful, gloomy, doleful, forlorn

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Remonstrate

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Protest, disapprove

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Ossified

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Turn into bone, harden, solidify, stagnate

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Jingoism

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Extreme patriotism

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Slovenly

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Untidy, unkempt, careless

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Mishap

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Accident, misfortune

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Pernicious

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Harmful

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Tenet

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Principle, belief

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Plight

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Difficult, dangerous situation

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Charlatan

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A person falsely claiming to have special knowledge or skill, fraud

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Abrasive

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Rude and unkind

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Ungainly

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Awkward in movement

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Forbearance

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Patient self control, restraint and tolerance

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Unerring

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Always right or accurate

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Feverish

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Displaying a frenetic excitement or energy

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Epistles

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A letter

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Cajolery

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Coaxing or flattery intended to persuade someone to do something

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Repudiate

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Refuse to accept or be associated with

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Palliate

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To reduce the bad affects of something

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41
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Acute

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Sharp

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Bolster

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Support or strengthen, prop up

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Extolled

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Praise enthusiastically

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Exultation

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A feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation, rejoicing

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Despondency

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In low sprit in from loss of hope or spirit

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Pendant

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A person who is too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important

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Pundit

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An expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public

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Enjoins

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Instruct or urge someone to do something

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Querulous

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Complaining Ina whining matter

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Incarnation

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A person who embodies in the flesh a deity, spirit, or abstract quality

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Prohibitive

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Forbidding or restricting

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Counterproductive

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Opposite result to the desired result

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Abstemious

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Not self indulgent

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Incurred

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A result of one’s action, usually something unpleasant

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Perplexing

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Complicate or confuse

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Debunk

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Expose

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Disparager

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A person who criticizes someone

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Erroneous

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Wrong/incorrect

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Voracious

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Appearing to be true

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Superficial

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Surface

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Curative

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Able to cure

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Provocative

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Causing anger

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Tyrannical

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Cruel or unreasonable use of power

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Vexed

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Annoyed or worried

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Bolstered

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Support or strengthen

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Attune

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Aware

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Plausibility

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Believable

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Intrinsically

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Belong to the essential nature

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Phenomena

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Occurrence, event

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Hobble

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Limp

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Syllogism

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To form a conclusion through deductive reasoning

72
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Entropy

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Break up, decay, decline

73
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Portent

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Inclination, forewarning

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Embroiled

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Bring into conflict

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Incensed

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Very angry

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Sycophant

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Person who provides to another

77
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Polymath

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Well informed, academic

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Amalgamated

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Unite to form a structure or organization

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Euphemism

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Polite term, to indirectly say something

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Locution

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Phrasing, style or speech

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Knack

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Ability, talent

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Unerring

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Accurate, errorless

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Eradication

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Destroying, remove

84
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Repudiate

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Reject, abandon

85
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Forebear

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Ancestor

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Jettison

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Throw, eject

87
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Progenitor

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Forbear, ancestor

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Coercion

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Pressure force

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Chicanery

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Deception, trickery

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Infighting

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Fighting between members of a group or organization

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Ossified

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To become or cause something to become unchangeable/hard like stone

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Judicious

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Having or showing good judgement

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Supercilious

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Having/showing proud attitude from thinking that one is better/more important than the other

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Rousing

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Done or said with great enthusiasm or excitement, causing great emotion, excitement

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Dictum

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A well known statement that expresses an important rule or idea

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Denunciation

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A statement that denounces someone or something

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Perfidy

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The act or betraying someone or something

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Efficacious

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Having the power to produce a desired result

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Slovenly

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Messy or untidy

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Diatribes

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An angry and usually long speech or piece of writing that strongly criticizes someone or something

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Insatiable

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Always wanting more

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Pejorative

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A word or phrase that has a negative connotation

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Belittle

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A pejorative word or phrase

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Benign

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Not causing damage or harm

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Circumspect

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Thinking carefully about possible risks before doing or saying something

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Perspicacious

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Having huge ability to understand things that are difficult or not obvious

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Sagacious

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Having the ability to understand difficult ideas and situations to make good decisions

108
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Flamboyance

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Having noticeable qualities that attracts a lot of attention

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Maverick

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A person who refuses to follow the customs or rules

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Remiss

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Lacking care or attention to a duty, careless, negligent, irresponsible, thoughtless

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Shroud

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  1. cloth or garment that envelops a dead person for burial.

2. A thing that envelopes or obscures something

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Arbitration

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The use of an arbitrator to settle a dispute

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Calumny

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The making of false and defamatory statement to lower someone’s reputation, slander

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Requisitioned

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Demand the use/supply of, seize, commandeer

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Flank

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  1. The side of a person or animal’s body between the ribs and hips
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Matriarchal

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  1. Female head of a family or tribe

2. A venerable old woman

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Intransigent

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Uncompromising, inflexible

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Delineated

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Describe or portray something precisely

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Vacillated

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Alternate between different opinions or actions, undecided, waver

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Steadfastness

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Loyalty, faithfulness, devotion

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Catnap

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Short sleep, doze

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Quip

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A witty remark

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Impotent

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Unable to take effective action, helpless, powerless, weak

124
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Precocious

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Having develop certain abilities at an earlier age than usual, intelligent, gifted, mature

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Incandescent

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Emitting light as a result of being heated

126
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Resplendent

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Attractive and impressive through being rich fully colorful, splendid, magnificent

127
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Brine

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Water saturated in salt

128
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Arboreal

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Living in trees

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Stolid

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Calm, showing little emotions, impassive

130
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Illicit

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Illegal

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