Daily Flashcards by Vanshika Singh

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Hangdog

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Guilty

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Propinquity

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Proximity

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Quibble

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To evade truth, sophistry

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Perestroika

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Reconstruction

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Prescient

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Foresighted

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Ultra vires

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Beyond legal power

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Ad nauseum

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Iteration

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Manichean

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Dual

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Machivalliean

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Dubious

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De riguer

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Proper

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Non sequiter

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Stratagem

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Sybarite

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Ias officer who got suspended

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Vicissitudes

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Tukke

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Scupper

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Spoil, wreck, mar

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Retribution

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Reprisal, nemesis, doom, fate

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Ex nihilo

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On its own

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Hamstrung

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Obstruct efficiency of

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Hamstrung

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Obstruction of efficiency

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Cabal

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Clique, snollygoster

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Sultriness

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Uncomfortableness

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Repudiate

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Reject

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Ancillary

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Adjuvant,appurtenance

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Corall

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Confine or gather(together)

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Armageddon

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Catacylsm, catastrophe

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Omniscient

All knowing

Ascendant

Preponderant

Munificence

Beneficence, benevolence, magnanimity,.generosity

Semblance

Facade, pretence

Aplomb

Self confidence in difficult situation

Monolith

Fossilised, rigid

Untethered

Unfastened

Maldorous

Smelling unpleasant

Perverse

Wicked

Slavish

Submissive

Styloid

Slender

Panygric

Eulogy

Ennui

Langour, lassitude, tedium

Egress

Exit

Abstruse

Hidden

Aberrant

Atypical, digressive, deviant, anomalous

Behoof

Benefit

Apprise

Inform someone

Vituperation

Obloquy, invective, billingsgate

Surmise

Assume

Enervate

Subvert

Opprobrium

Harsh criticism

Rectitude

Ant. Turpitude

Quiescent

Normancy

Bete noire

Pet peeve

Cavil

Complain

Crestfallen

Saddened

Petulant

Irascible

Guffaw

Scoff

Cloy

Sickingly sweet

Stupor

Asphyxia, slumber, stupefaction, daze, trance

Mercurial

Capricious, whimsical, fickle, giddy, labile

Mongrel

Hybrid

Comeuppance

Wrath

Moribund

About to end

Ascendant

Dominant

Thrall

Yoke

Slander

Calumny, calumniation, aspersion, hatchet job, denigration

Minnow

Small and unimportant person or organisation

Sedate

Serious

Baronial

Impressive in appearance

Cudgel

Bludgeon