Day 25-27 Flashcards by Stephen Kim

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portend

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to indicate a future

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tedium

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boredom, tiresome

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blight

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to afflict, to destroy

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prodigal

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wastefully or recklessly extravagent

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impugn

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to challenge as false

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expropriate

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to seize ownership

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fractious

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troublesome, unruly

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paucity

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smallness of quantity, scarcity

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incisive

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perceptive, penetrating

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capitulate

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to submit completely

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acrimonious

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biting, harsh, caustic

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sycophant

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self-serving flatterer

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recalcitrant

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resisting authority or control

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castigate

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to punish, chastise

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ostracize

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to exclude from a group

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belabor

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to explain, worry about

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espouse

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to support to advocate

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ubiquitous

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existing everywhere, omnipresent

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virulent

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actively poisonous, hostile

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enervate

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to reduce the energy or strength

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corroborate

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supporting with evidence

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desultory

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at random, rambling

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peremptory

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leaving no opportunity for denial

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torpid

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inactive, sluggish

countermand

to annul, cancel

mercurial

quick, changeable

maladroit

clumsy, bungling

harbinger

frontier, precursor, forefather

commodious

roomy, spacious

banal

devoid of freshness or quality

eclectic

selective

continence

self-control, self restrained

placate

to appease, pacify

choleric

extremely irritable or easily angered

jocular

joking, jesting, waggish

demarcation

borderline, act of defining or marking a boundary

ply

to use diligently, to engage

impute

to credit or give responsibility

strident

grating, creaking

discomfit

to frustrate

obdurate

unwilling to change, stubborn

vignette

decorative design

sequester

to remove, be set apart

juducious

wise, sensible, well advised

remiss

negligent, lazy

lithe

bending readily, pliant, flexible

despondent

feeling or showing profound hopelessness

rectitude

rightness of principle or conduct

decrepit

weakened by old age, feeble

spurious

lacking authenticity, counterfeit

squalid

filthy, morally repulsive

duplicity

deception

devoid

deplete, strip

remuneration

something that rewards, pay

perquisite

benefit, privilege

venal

characterized by bribery

fallow

not in use

frenetic

widely frantic

chimerical

unreal, imaginary