Deck 7 Flashcards

(50 cards)

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Platitude

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a repeat

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Plait

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to braid

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Pliant

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yielding

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Plucky

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spunky

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Pneumatic

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related to air

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Polemic

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an argument

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Polyglot

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multilingual

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Pontificate

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to ramble

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Portent

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omen

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Posterity

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descendents

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Potable

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drinkable

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Precept

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law

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Precipitous

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hasty

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Preclude

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eliminate

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Predicate

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to base on

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Preeminent

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celebrated or famous

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Preponderance

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majority view

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Presage

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to fortell

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Prescient

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have foresight

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Pretext

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an excuse

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Prevaricate

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Privation

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loss of wealth

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Probity

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Profligate

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Profuse
to lavish out
25
Promontory
high ground
26
Promulgate
to make famous
27
Propensity
inclination
28
Propitiate
to win over
29
Propitious
favorable
30
Proponent
advocate of
31
Prosaic
common
32
Propinquity
nearness
33
Proselytize
to convert
34
Protagonist
main character
35
Protean
amorphous
36
Prude
civil
37
Prurient
lustful
38
Puerile
childish
39
Pugilism
boxing
40
Pugnacious
quarrelsome
41
Pulchritude
beauty
42
Purport
to claim
43
Quandary
a dilemma
44
Quaternary
4 units
45
Quiescence
inactivity
46
Quixotic
impractical
47
Quotidian
daily
48
Raconteur
witty
49
Ramification
consequence