DECK 2 Flashcards by Neel GRE

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Admonish

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Demolish

Warned strictly

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Affectation

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Affected behaviour

Fake behaviour to impress someone

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Dissemble

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Avengers dissemble

Pretend to be someone else

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Dogged

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Stubborn like a dog

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Empirical

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Emperor

Based on experience

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Engender

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Cause, Produce

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Pertinatious

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Too stubborn

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Probity

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Probation office - he works with honesty

Honesty

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Proliferate

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Infiltrate

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Specious

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Suspicious

Misleading

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Spurious

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Furious that its fake

Fake

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Tortuous

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Not straightforward

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Venal

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Mercinary

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Indolent

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Lazy

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Insular

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Isolated, Not interested in other people’s ideas

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Intransigent

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In travel agent

Unwilling to change one’s opinions

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Intrepid

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In trap

Brave

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Platitude

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Cliche

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Reproach

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Re approach a girl

Criticism

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Sedulous

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Seduce a girl

Hard working

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Stern

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Strict

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Accentuate

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Accent

Noticeable

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Conjecture

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Speculation

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Decadent

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State of moral decline

Egregious

Egg throw | Very bad

Evanescent

Vanishing scent | Vanishing

Gainsay

Say against

Galvanise

Excite someone into action

Perfidy

Without fidelity i.e loyalty | Betrayal of trust

Pugnacious

Pubg | Eager to fight

Skulduggery

Dishonest behaviour to achieve aim

Vapid

Tasteless

Boorish

Boooooooo | Rude

Deleterious

Harmful to health

Edify

Rectify | Make understand

Elicit

Implicit, Explicit | Answer

Fecund

Funds - be productive to get funds | Productive

Forbear

Forget beer | Restrain

Impetuous

Impatient us | Acting rashly

Mordant

Mordo | Cruel in a funny way

Repudiate

Refuse diet | Deny

Trifling

Tried fling | Unimportant

Eschew

Chew a lot | Avoid

Esotertic

Estrogen | Hard to understand

Fastidious

Fast is tedious | Giving attention to detail

Feign

Pretend to be sick

Furtive

Fur = cats | Sneaky

Nonchalant

No challenge | Don't care

Pensive

Pen in your mouth | Deep in thoughts

Somnolent

Sleepy

Stoic

Stone face | Indifferent

Tout

Shout | Attempt to persuade people merits of

Wane

Wine | Become weaker