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English Flashcards

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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

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Puzzled intoxicated bewildered confused

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Benign

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Harmless; gracious

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Besotted

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Blindly infatuated, intoxicated

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Bibliophile

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Lover of books

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Bombastic

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Inflated pompous overblown

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Brusque

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Rude rough coarse

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Cacophony

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Discord having ill sounds. Use of harsh sounding words or phrases

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Conscientious

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Done carefully & thoroughly done

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Callous

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Not easily moved or affected emotionally

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Candour

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Brilliant whiteness brilliancy

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Capitulate

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Todraw up articles of agreement to propose terms. Parley negotiate to stipulate

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Captions

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Fault-finding

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Cerebral

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Relating to the brain

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Circumspect

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Well considered, cautious

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Clandestine

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Secret private concealed . implies deception

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cogent

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Constraining, powerful forcible

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Coherent

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That sticks or clings firmly together; united

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Collated

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To put or bring compare

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Colloquial

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Conversational, belonging to comma speech

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Complacency

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The state of being pleased with a thing or person tranquil pleasure or satisfaction

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Concur

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To run or come peacefully to meet

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Didactic

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Peice of writing having instruction as a primary or ulterior purpose

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Diffident

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Lacking in self-confidence timid shy modest self-deprecating hesitant tentative

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Diligent

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Persevering industrious

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Disparity

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The quality or state of being unequal in rank condition or circumstance etc

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disseminate

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To disperse

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Dissipate

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To pass away in all directions to disperse

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Dogmatic

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Stubbornly opinionated. bases opinions on facts not opinions sometimes

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Dour

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Of a person’s disposition on behaviour

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Dystopia

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An imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible

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Effervescence

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Bubbling vivaciously

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Elicit

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To draw forth into sensible existence

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Eloquent

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Possessing or exercising the power of student appropriate expression . Fluent forcible

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Elucidate

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To make something clear explain

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Emulate

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To copy , equal rival a person he’s achievements etc

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Enervate

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To reduce in strength or weaken

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Enigma

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A puzzling question

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Endear

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To render a person dear to another

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Ephemeral

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For a short time only

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Epiphany

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A Manifestation or appearance of some divine or superhuman being

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