Day 6 Flashcards by Al Jazeera | Brainscape

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Querulous

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Inclined to find fault

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Flower

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To reach the best or most vigorous stage

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Marshal

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To arrange in order

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Elaborate

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Detailed, carefully thorough

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Lewd

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Preoccupied with sex

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Hallowed

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Made or set apart as holy

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Hefty

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Heavy

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Milestone

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Important event

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Mortal

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Subject to desth

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Ascertain

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To discover with certainty

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Quixotic

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Foolishly idealistic

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Indelible

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Incapable of being removed or erased

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Discern

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To perceive and understand to make distinctions

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Garner

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To get or earn

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Insight

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The power to sense or understand

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Slovenly

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Careless about ones own appearance

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Banal

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Full or stale

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Robust

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Strong and full of health

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Indignation

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Anger aroused by something unjust

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Contagious

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Transmissible by direct or indirect contact

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Plausible

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Appearing worthy if belief or trust

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Hypothesis

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Tentative explanation

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Exude

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To give off

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Novel

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Strikingly new

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Auspicious

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Marked by favorable circumstances

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Luminous

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Emitting light

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Indiscriminate

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Unselective

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Memento

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Reminder or souvenir

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Transient

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Passing with time, remaining briefly

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Integrity

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Moral or artistic honesty

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Stifle

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To suffocate or smother

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Empirical

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Based on experience not theory

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Best

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To defeat

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Dismay

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To destroy courage or resolution

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Laconic

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Brief in speech

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Discreet

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Careful about what one says or does

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Catastrophe

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Disaster

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Reverberate

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To re-echo

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Excrete

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To separate waste manner and eliminate from body

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Matrix

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Surrounding substance witching which something else originates or is contained

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Scorn

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Feeling of contempt or disdain

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Obsequious

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Willingness to serve or obey

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Amicable

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Showing friendliness

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Narcissistic

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Excessive interested in ones own appearance

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Contiguous

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Sharing common boundary

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Desolate

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Left alone; lonely

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Own

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To admire esp taking personal responsibility for ones own actions or thoughts

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Giddy

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Dizzy

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Malfeasance

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Wrongdoing

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Equanimity

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Evenness of temper