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Deck 1-Callao Flashcards

1
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Innocuous

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Harmless

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2
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Deleterious

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Causing harm or damage

S: The deleterious effects of the hurricane.

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Pernicious

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Having a harmful effect

Syn: malign, baneful, pestilent)

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Querrelous

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Complaining in a petulant/whining manner

S: Sabrina’s querrelous manner is vexing.

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5
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Parsimony, parsimonious

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Stingy

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6
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Probity

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Good behavior, integrity, honesty, uprightness

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Precocity

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Intelligence developed far ahead of one’s developmental years

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Circumspect

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Wary, unwillingness to take risks

Syn: cautious, prudent

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9
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Odium

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General widespread hatred or disgust

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10
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Predilection

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A preference or special liking

Syn: fondness, penchant, partiality

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Loquacious

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Excessively talkative

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12
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Debacle

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A great disaster, complete failure

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13
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Wane

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To decrease gradually in size, amount or degree

Sales were waning quarterly causing the investors great concern.

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14
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Affable

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Friendly, good natured, easy to talk to, like-able

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15
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Insipid

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Lacking vigor or interest

Syn: flat, vapid

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16
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Churlish

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Rude in a mean spirited, surly way

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Surly

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Bad- tempered and unfriendly

Syn: morose, gruff, sullen, sulky

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Servile

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Having or showing and excessive willingness to please

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19
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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative

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20
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Obsequious

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive degree

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21
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Acrimonious

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Using sharp language

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22
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Inure

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To become accustomed to

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the proper or expected course

The dogs aberrant eating behavior alerted the owner that there was indeed a problem.

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Decorous

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Polite, restrained; in keeping with good taste and propriety

25
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Repatriate

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Send back to homeland against one’s will

26
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Extradite

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To give up or deliver to the legal jurisdiction of another government

27
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Commandeer

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Take official control or possession of

28
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Appropriate

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Set apart for use; take possession of or take something for one’s own use
Syn: apposite, convenient, suitable

29
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Interdict

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Prohibit, forbid, an authoritative prohibition

30
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Indigent

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Poor, needy

31
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Imbibe

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Act of consuming liquid

32
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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad and dismal

33
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Lucubration

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Study, meditation, intense study

34
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Magnanimity

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Generous in forgiving; high-minded, noble

35
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Pedantic

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Excessive attention to book learning and rules; use learning to show off

36
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Prodigious

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Remarkably or impressively great in extent

Syn: stupendous, marvellous

37
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Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere at the same time

38
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Volubility

Voluble

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Talkative, marked by a steady flow of speech

39
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Impugn

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Dispute the truth

Syn: challenge, contest, dispute

40
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Penury

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Extreme poverty, destitution

41
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Placate

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To please, to pacify OR allay the anger of

42
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Placid

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Calm and satisfied

43
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Depravity

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Moral corruption, a wicked act

Syn: corruption, perversion

44
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Perverse

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Turned away from what is right or good

45
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Complacent

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Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or ones achievements
Syn: pleased, contented, satisfied

46
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Turgid

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Swollen and distended or congested

47
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Timorous

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Suffering for nervousness fear or lack of confidence

Syn: shy, timid

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Inveterate

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Long established and unlikely to change

Syn: in-grained, deep seated

49
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Predilection

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A preference or special liking for something

Syn: penchant, partiality, fondness

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Erudite

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Having or showing great knowledge or learning

Syn: learned, scholarly

51
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Nascent

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Just coming into existence and showing signs of future potential, not fully developed

52
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Intractable

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Hard to control or deal with; difficulty, stubborn

53
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Archaic

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Very old or old fashioned

54
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Astute

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Having an ability to accurately asses situations

Syn: shrewd, crafty, cunning

55
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Benignant

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Kindly and benevolent, having a good effect, beneficial

Syn: gracious, benevolent

56
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Iconoclastic

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To attack/ seek to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions

57
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Reprobate

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Scoundrel, unprincipled person (humorously)

58
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Mercurial

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One subject to sudden or unpredictable changes

59
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Equivocate

A

Using ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth; avoid making an explicit statement

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