Core Vocabulary Flashcards

Question

CATASTROPHIC

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- utterly disastrous

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- to stop, halt

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- to find a way around; avoid

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- to quote or reference from a work to support an argument

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- to come together to form a single mass

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- roughness, harshness

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- the act of working with another person or people

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- common, ordinary

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- to include, contain

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- to restrict within a limited area

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- to utterly confuse, baffle

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- general agreement

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- clearly visible; noticeable

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- the process of eating or using up

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- dependent upon; subject to

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- to think up

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- abundant; plentiful

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- believable

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- easily fooled

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- a complete failure; fiasco

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- to diminish

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- feeling depressed

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- departure from what is normal

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- physically skilled, especially with one's hands

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- visible; detectable

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- general disagreement

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- very different

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- to scatter

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- inherent personality or character trait

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- to move apart

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- the process of taming an animal or cultivating a wild plant

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- excessively harsh laws, rules, and punishments

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- highly odd or unconventional (person)

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- to overshadow or block

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- to draw out, usually a response

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- to cause or give rise to

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- difficult to find, catch, or achieve

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- to overwhelm; surround completely

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- to improve or intensify

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- very brief; short-lived

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- unpredictable; not regular

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- to escape or avoid

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- to reveal or show one's feelings

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- to make worse

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- the process of digging up, usually a historic site

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- extreme and excessive

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- stated directly and with complete clarity

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- to take advantage of

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- contact with someone or something (noun form of "expose")

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- to invent or make up, typically with the intent to deceive

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- (false) exterior

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- to encourage or promote something typically seen to be good

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- productive/unproductive

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- to energize, spur into action

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- random and disorganized

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- varied, diverse; synonym for "multifaceted"

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- to block, prevent; synonym for "impede"

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- to imagine something as better than it is in reality

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- not real; based on an illusion

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- about to happen

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- to delay or prevent

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- faultless, spotless

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- impossible to pass through

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- of vital importance; crucial

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- cannot be seen or perceived

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- very large and impressive in appearance

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- very poor

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- out of place; something that contrasts with its surroundings

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- unable to be read or understood

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- memorable; impossible to forget

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- without interest or concern; apathetic

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- to teach a person/people to uncritically accept beliefs

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- to persuade or influence someone to do something

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- overly generous; too lenient

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- inescapable; inevitable

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- incapable of making mistakes

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- extremely small; approaching zero

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- very clever and cunning

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- harmless; the synonym "benign" may also be used

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- featuring new materials and ideas

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- deep understanding

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- art exhibit consisting of large objects placed in a public space

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- incapable of being overcome

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- too great to overcome

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- coming between two things

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- very complex

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- arousing curiosity or interest

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- spreading in a harmful manner (noun form of "invade")

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- the ability to understand from an instinctive feeling

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- beyond criticism; faultless

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- permanent

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- placement of two things next to each other for contras

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- using few words; brief and to-the-point

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- existing but in hidden or dormant form

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- a long-lasting impact

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- descent from a common ancestor or predecessor

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- very profitable

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- visible appearance of an object, trend, or idea

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- unpredictable; constantly shifting moods

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- very careful and precise; the synonym ’’punctilious" may also be used

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- the movement of a person or group from one area to another

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- to misunderstand

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- to make a problem less severe

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- to prepare a person or group for action

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- having great significance (a decision or event)

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- to make money from

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- approaching death; on the verge of becoming obsolete

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- having many aspects

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- dull; uninteresting

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vague; undefined; synonym for "amorphous"

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- wicked and evil

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- a subtle shade of difference or meaning

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- to care for and encourage growth and development

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- rare; understood by few people

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- done casually, without prior thought

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- threatening; giving the impression that something bad will happen

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- a preference or liking for

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- conforming to a standard theory or belief

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- excessive burden or stress

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- to dominate; make someone or something seem unimportant

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- no longer fashionable; out of date

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- disproportionately large

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- literally, touchable; often used to describe a very intense feeling

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- a small or limited amount

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- of secondary importance; not central

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- widespread

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- very different; opposite

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- practical

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- to cause to happen especially suddenly and unexpectedly

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- prevent or block; synonym for "impede"

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- a person or thing that precedes; a forerunner

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- preying upon others

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- showing great foresight

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- to lay down a rule; dictate

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- affecting greater importance than one actually has

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- false excuse given to justify a course of action

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- to triumph over great odds

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- to list or rate in order of importance

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enormous; impressively large

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- intellectually deep; extremely insightful

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large amount; synonym for "myriad"; antonym for "paucity"

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- so high (a difficulty or price) that it prevents something from occurring

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- very productive

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- causing a reaction, often annoyance or anger

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- to take back; withdraw; renounce

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- to respond to an action by doing the same thing back to someone

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- to bring opposing people or things back together

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- (n.) official list or record; (v.) to become aware of or record

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- connected/unconnected to the topic at hand

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- to give up

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- to refill; resupply

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- capable of quickly recovering from difficulty

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- the act of rising again into life or activity

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- hindsight; looking back

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- something that is revealed and thus made known

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- limited to basic principles; elementary

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- to deliberately destroy or damage

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- to fully satisfy

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- a clever and often devious plan

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- extremely attentive to details

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- to examine very closely and carefully

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- to form an explanation or theory; synonym for "conjecture"

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- false or fake; the synonym "specious" may also be used

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- to demand or specify as part of an agreement

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- requiring great physical exertion

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- influenced by personal tastes, opinions, or feelings

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- of considerable importance, size, or worth

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- shallow; lacking depth

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- more than enough; unnecessary

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- to replace; supersede

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- (n.) an addition or reinforcement; (v.) to add on

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- to exceed; go beyond

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- to persuade to follow a course of action

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- to cause multiple events to occur at the same time

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- a brief summary

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- (n.) a recorded account; a total; (v.) to count

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- to block or get in the way of something negative

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- to rise above normal limitations

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- very weak; connected only slightly

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- unimportant

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- everywhere; synonym for "universal"

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- cannot be reached or achieved

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- strange or slightly supernatural; beyond what is ordinary

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- not conforming to what is generally done or believed

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- to weaken; erode

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- to emphasize by drawing attention to a fact, idea, or situation

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- leaving no doubt; certain

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- inconspicuous; not attracting attention

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- unable to be resolved or settled

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- unable to be defended or supported

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- to go back and forth between two options; synonym for "waver"

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- to confirm the truth of a claim

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- the quality of seeming to be true

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- to free from blame; prove correct

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- to voluntarily give up the right to do something

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- to go back and forth between two options; synonym for "vacillate"

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- a turning point

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- unable to be assigned to a category

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- boring; dull and tiresome

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- highly particular, unique to an individual

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- to make better; improve

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