ETS WORDS 1 Flashcards

(53 cards)

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Colluding

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Secret Understanding (for slander)

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Censure

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Formal reprimand

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Consummate

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Make perfect

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4
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Disquietude

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Anxiety

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Disdain

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Unworthy of respect

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6
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Eclipsed by

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Exceeded by

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Elemental

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Basic (prosaic, quotidian)

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Extalt

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Extol (praise)

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Ineptitude

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Incompetent (inept)

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Impinge

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Intrude (encroach)

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Probity

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Integrity

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12
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Reticence

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Hesitation

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13
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Stipulates

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Demands

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Surreptitiousness

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Sneakiness

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Unencumbered

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Fear of impediments (cumbersome)

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Unctuous

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Suave, excessive flattery, ingratiating flattery

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17
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Apostate

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Traitorous

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18
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Auguries

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Omens

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Accruing

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Cumulating

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20
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Clandestine

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Hidden

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21
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Circuitous

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Indirect

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Clalmitous

23
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Cavalcade

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Ceremonial process of people walking or riding together

24
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Conflation

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Act of grouping things together

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Demarcate
Set boundaries
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Expatriated
Leave one's home land
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Exultant
Triumphantly happy
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Fracas
Row
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Foible
Quirk
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Hallowed
holy
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Insular
Narrow-minded
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Incipient
Beginning
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Lugubrious
Depressive
34
Licentious
Promiscuous (debauchery)
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Liberality
Generousness
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Meritorious
Admirable
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Muinous
Rebellion
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Obstreperous
Boisterous and Defiant
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Objectionable
Offensive
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Portents
Forewarning
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Peregrination
Journey
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Presage
Predict
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Piquet
Provocative
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Prerogative
Right exclusive to an individual
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Punctillious
Finicky
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Recreant
Unfaithful, coward
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Recalcitrant
Fixed, hard to move
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Rapturous
Euphoric (NOT to be mistaken for rapacious)
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Sumptuousness
Luxurious
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Sequester
Isolating
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Unwieldy
Cumbersome
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Umbrage at
Take offense at
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Viturperating
Blame, insult