Essential Flashcards

(32 cards)

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Assuage

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To make something less painful or severe

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Anomaly

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Something unusual and unexpected

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Enigma

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Someone or something that is difficult to understand or explain

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Equivocal

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Having to possible meanings

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Erudite

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Having knowledge that is learned by studying

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Fervid

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Having or showing feelings that are strong or too strong

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Lucid

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Very clear, and easy to understand

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Opaque

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Not letting light through,

Difficult to understand or explain

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Placate

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To soothe or mollify esp. by concessions.

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Precipitate

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To cause something to happen quickly or suddenly

To become separated from a liquid by a chemical process

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Prodigal

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Carelessly and foolishly spending money, time, etc.

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Zeal

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A strong feeling or interest and enthusiasm that make someone very eager or determined to do something

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Abstain

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To choose not to do or have something

To choose not to vote

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Adulterate

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To make something impure or weaker by adding something of poor quality

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Apathy

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The feeling of not having much emotion or interest

An apathetic state

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Audacious

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Very confident and daring

Very bold and surprising or shocking

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Capricious

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Changing often and quickly

Not logical or reasonable

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Corroborate

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To support or help prove by providing information or evidence

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Desiccate

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To dry up

To preserve by drying

To drain of emotional or intellectual vitality

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Engender

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To be the source or cause of something

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a very short time

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Gullible

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Easily fooled or cheated

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Homogenous

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Made up of the same kind of people or things

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Laconic

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Using few words in speech or writing

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Laudable
Deserving praise
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Loquacious
Liking to talk and talking smoothly and easily
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Migitate
To make something les severe, harmful or painful
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Pedant
A person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor detail
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Pragmatic
Dealing with the problems that exist in a specific situation in. Reasonable and logical way instead of depending on ideas and theories.
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Propriety
Behavior that is accepted as socially or morally correct and proper
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Vacillate
To repeatedly change your opinions and desires
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Volatile
Likely to change in an extreme way Having or showing extreme or sudden changes in emotion Likely to become dangerous or out of control