Deck 12 Flashcards by S H

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Dispassionate

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unemotional, composed

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Disparage

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belittle, make light of

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Disrepute

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disgrace, shame, infamy

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Dissimilar

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not alike, different

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Distinction

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difference, significance

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Dormant

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resting, inactive

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Dowager

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a widow with title or property from late husband

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Dubious

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unsure, hesitant

suspicious, unreliable

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Dumbfounded

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amazed

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Duplicitous

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deceitful

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Egalitarian

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believing that people are equal, deserve equality

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Embellish

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adorn

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Eminent

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important, distinguished

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Emote

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portray emotion in a theatrical manner

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Emphatic

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assertive, insistent

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Enable

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allow, empower

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Enmity

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hostility, resentment

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Epitomize

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exemplify

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Equivocal

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vague, ambiguous

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Equivocate

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use ambiguous language to hide the truth

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Esoteric

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obscure, unusual

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Exacerbate

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intensify, worsen

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Exhibitionism

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done to attract attention

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Exhort

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encourage, urge

Exodus

mass departure of people, evacuation (biblical)

Expedient

profitable

Expropriate

to take possession of

Extraneous

external, foreign, irrelevant

Exult

delight, revel

Facile

simplistic, easy

Feckless

lacking initiative, irresponsible

Fetid

foul smelling

Fickle

changes mind, variable

Flagrant

obvious, glaring, scandalous

Foresight

forethought

Fortitude

patience, bravery

Frivolity

lightheartedness

Frivolous

light hearted

Genial

friendly, cheerful, affable

Glib

frivolous, insincere

Gratuitous

uncalled for, lacking good reason

Gregarious

sociable

Halcyon

a past time that was happy and peaceful, idyllic

Haughty

arrogant, conceited

Heedless

recklessness

Iconoclast

critic, skeptic, destroyer of religious images

Idiosyncrasy

a distinctive or peculiar feature or trait

Ignominy

shame, disgrace

Immutable

rigid

Imperative

crucial