Deck 11 Flashcards
(50 cards)
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Caustic
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scathing
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Capricious
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unpredictable, sudden change
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Celerity
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speed
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Churlish
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rude, ill bred, surly
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Circumscribe
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restrict
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Clemency
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mercy, leniency
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Cloy
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disgust with excess sweetness
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Commodity
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valuable thing, raw material
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Complacent
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overly content, self-congratulatory
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Compunction
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guilt after doing something wrong
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Concession
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compromise, allowance
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Conciliatory
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pacifying
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Conclusive
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decisive, certain
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Conducive to
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helpful, advantageous
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Conform
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follow, obey
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Connoisseur
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expert
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Concession
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something granted in response to demand
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Conflate
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combine two things into one
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Consigned
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deliver to another, dispatch
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Consternation
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dismay, distress
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Conviction
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sentence, opinion
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Convivial
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cheerful, friendly, jovial
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Copious
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plentiful
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Cordial
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friendly
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Cordial (N)
liquor
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Correspondent
letter writer, newspaper writer
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Corroborate
confirm, support
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Credulous
gullible
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Culpable
deserving blame
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Cursory
hasty, not thorough
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Dauntless
fearless
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Decimate
kill, destroy a large population
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Decorous
polite, proper
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Dejection
depression
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Delude
mislead
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Demur
object
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Denunciate
denounce, openly condemn
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Deplorable
disgraceful, shameful
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Despotic
tyrannical, undemocratic
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Despondent
depressed
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Depravity
corrupt
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Deterrent
a thing that discourages one from doing something
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Detractor
critic
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Diaphanous
light, delicate, translucent
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Dichotomy
division into 2 completely different things, contrast
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Dictum
pronouncement, command
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Dilettante
amateur, nonprofessional
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Disavow
deny responsibility, reject
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Discern
recognize, distinguish
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Disingenuous
insincere, dishonest
