DECK 4 Flashcards by Neel GRE

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Bridle

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Bride = Wife

Restrain

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Crestfallen

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Crest has fallen down

Sad and disappointed

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Curtail

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Cut tail

To cut short

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Elucidate

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To explain clearly

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Feckless

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Lacking strength

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Iconoclastic

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Attack cherished traditions

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Immure

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I am yours

Confine against their will

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Inscrutable

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In scrutinisable

Difficult to understand

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Profligate

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Bill gates

Waste money

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Skittish

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Skit is horror

Easily scared

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Superflous

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Excessive

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Vociferous

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Loud

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Contentious

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Contests

Quarrelsome

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Dogmatic

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Dog has opinions

Opinionated

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Fallacious

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False

Misconception

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Foolhardy

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Reckless

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Impugn

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Imply ugly

Attack verbally

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Inveterate

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Veteran

Long used to the habit

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Pithy

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Pi

Precise

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Pliant

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Plank

Easily bent

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Sanctimonious

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Making a show of being morally superior than others

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Upbraid

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Up beard

Scold

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Vexation

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Waxing

Irritation

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Acquisitive

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Interested in acquiring wealth

Attenuate

Get weaker

Aversion

Dislike

Blithe

B light | Joyful

Dissident

Not a resident | Doesn't obey rules

Efficacious

Effective

Pernicious

Per nicotine | Having harmful effect

Predicament

Difficult situation

Prolix

Long and wordy

Veritable

Verifiable | True

Dissent

Dis sentiment | To differ in opinion

Ebullient

E bullet bike | Very excited

Facetious

Face is not serious | Treat serious issues with humour

Falliable

Fall able | Can make mistakes

Inveigle

In vehicle - get in car after robbery | To obtain by deception

Mendacity

Men audacity | Unwilling to tell truth

Munificient

Money sufficient | Generous

Parochial

Parents | Narrow minded

Pedestrian

Dull

Prevaricate

Pre verification - lie in visa | Lie

Recrudescent

Re crude descent - re=repeat | Recur

Confound

Confusion found

Digression

Departure from the main idea in writing

Duplicitious

Duplicates - clone thieves like in Dhoom | Deceitfulness

Expedient

Expeder name | Convenient but Immoral

Libertine

Liberty | Lustful

Modish

Following what is popular in fashion

Nascent

Nasa sends - everything a new person to moon | New Birth

Pious

Religious

Providential

Provident funds | Lucky

Schism

Prism | Division of groups into opposing factors

Stalwart

John Stewart from Young Sheldon | Loyal

Supplicate

Supply cat | Pray humbly

Terse

Abrupt

Tirade

Tired | Long angry speech