English Flashcards

(64 cards)

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Abject

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Despicable wretched

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Acquiesce

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Agree or accept reluctantly

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Abrasive

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Rough,harsh

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Abstemious

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Moderate, not self-indulgent

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, obscure

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Acronym

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A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for a name or expression

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Adroit

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Skilful, dextrous

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Affable

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Easy-going, approachable

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Affinity

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Relation, attraction or attraction to

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Agnostic

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Noun someone not persuaded or committed to a particular point of view, a sceptic

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Allusion

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Reference to someone or thing

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Altruistic

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Self-less

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Ambiguous

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Unclear, having multiple meaning

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Ambivalent

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Contradictory or mixed feelings about someone or thing

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Ameliorate

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To make something bad or unsatisfactory better

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Amorous

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In love or full of love

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Apathy

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Uncaring or unfeeling or indifference

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Appease

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Bring to peace pacify, quiet or settle

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Arbitrary

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Derived from mere opinion or preference

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Archaic

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Old fashioned,antique

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Axiom

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A law or rule

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Banal

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Common ordinary

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Bathos

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Literary move from the sublime to the ridiculous

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Belligerent

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Argumentative stubborn

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Bemused
Puzzled intoxicated bewildered confused
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Benign
Harmless; gracious
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Besotted
Blindly infatuated, intoxicated
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Bibliophile
Lover of books
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Bombastic
Inflated pompous overblown
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Brusque
Rude rough coarse
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Cacophony
Discord having ill sounds. Use of harsh sounding words or phrases
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Conscientious
Done carefully & thoroughly done
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Callous
Not easily moved or affected emotionally
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Candour
Brilliant whiteness brilliancy
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Capitulate
Todraw up articles of agreement to propose terms. Parley negotiate to stipulate
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Captions
Fault-finding
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Cerebral
Relating to the brain
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Circumspect
Well considered, cautious
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Clandestine
Secret private concealed . implies deception
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cogent
Constraining, powerful forcible
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Coherent
That sticks or clings firmly together; united
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Collated
To put or bring compare
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Colloquial
Conversational, belonging to comma speech
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Complacency
The state of being pleased with a thing or person tranquil pleasure or satisfaction
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Concur
To run or come peacefully to meet
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Didactic
Peice of writing having instruction as a primary or ulterior purpose
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Diffident
Lacking in self-confidence timid shy modest self-deprecating hesitant tentative
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Diligent
Persevering industrious
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Disparity
The quality or state of being unequal in rank condition or circumstance etc
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disseminate
To disperse
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Dissipate
To pass away in all directions to disperse
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Dogmatic
Stubbornly opinionated. bases opinions on facts not opinions sometimes
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Dour
Of a person's disposition on behaviour
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Dystopia
An imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible
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Effervescence
Bubbling vivaciously
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Elicit
To draw forth into sensible existence
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Eloquent
Possessing or exercising the power of student appropriate expression . Fluent forcible
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Elucidate
To make something clear explain
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Emulate
To copy , equal rival a person he's achievements etc
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Enervate
To reduce in strength or weaken
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Enigma
A puzzling question
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Endear
To render a person dear to another
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Ephemeral
For a short time only
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Epiphany
A Manifestation or appearance of some divine or superhuman being