ETS Words 2 Flashcards
(120 cards)
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Arrogated
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Take claim without justification
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Averred
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Assert to a case
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Burnished
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Polish something by rubbing
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Cretaceous
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Era of time between Jurassic and Tertiary
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Cabal
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Secret political clique
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Cossested
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Pampered
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Conflagration
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Fire that destroys (NOT conflation)
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Contumacious
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Disobedient to authority
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Concilliatory
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Intend to please
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Despondent
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Very sad
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Dilapidation
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Destructive to building
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Daedalean
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Intricate, ingenious
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Effigy
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Model of person
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Ebbing
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Lessen, tide moving out
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Irradiation
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Edges that contrast
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Ingenuous
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Innocent
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Insoluble
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Not able to solve
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Irresolute
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Vacillate, change mind
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Insolvent
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Unable to pay debt
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Insoluble
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Unable to solve
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Imprecation
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Spoken curse
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Jaunty
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Lively, cheerful, self-confident
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Gordian
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Extremely difficult
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Obloquy
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Public criticism
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Plucky
Showing determined courage
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Picayune
Petty
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Paltry
Meager
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Pithy
Concise language, style
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Proscribe
Condemn, forbid
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Quintessential
Exemplar
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Quaint
Picturesque
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Sequestration
To take by force, isolate
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Surmount
Overcome
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Seditious
Inciting people to rebel
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Squall
Gust of wind
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Recompense
Compensation
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Ribald
Referring to sexual matters in a rude way
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Voluble
Speaking forever
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Actuate
Put into action
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Amoritizing
Reduce debt
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Allay
To fill a need
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Camarderie
Fellowship
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Complacency
Self-restraint (NOT to be confused with compliant)
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Desultory
Without a purpose
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Descry
Catch sight of
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Effluvium
Bad odor
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Extemporaneous
Acting without thinking
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Frangible
Easy to break (fragile)
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Gratuitious
Unjustifiable, lacking good reason
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Inculcate
Instill (establish)
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Levied
Seized property, taxed
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Hapless
Unlucky (mishap)
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Inveighed
Protest strongly
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Malignant
Very infectious disease
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Macerating
Soften by soaking (like masicating juicer)
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Philistine
Lowbrow (not intelligent)
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Peripatetic
Wander from place to place
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Refractory
Rebellious
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Recant
Retract a statement or opinion
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Redress
Panacea
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Slake
Quench thirst
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Tensile
Tension (tensile strength)
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Toadies
Sycophant
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Vagaries
Whim
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Wayward
Capricious, disobedient
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Quintessence
Perfect embodiment of
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Amend
To alter
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Antediluvian
Antiquated, outdated
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Annexed to
Added to
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Artifice
Clever trick
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Billowed
Bulged
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Bravado
Fake courage
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Bravura
Performance piece of exceptional talent
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Commodious
Expansive (like accommodate)
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Curio
Unusual object
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Compendious
Laconic
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Compuction
Guilt
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Carnal
Sexual Nature
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Despondency
Despair
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Deprecating
Disapproval
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Garish
Tasteless
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Fetid
Bad odor
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Fitfully
Intermittent
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Fawn
Yellowish color OR to display flattery (to gain advantage)
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Fugacious
Fleeting
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Homeliness
Common, rustic
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Inculcated
Indoctrinate
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Incumbent
Necessary of people
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Insolence
Rude
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Jounced
Bounced up and down
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Monolith
Uniform structure
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Occult
Hidden
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Platatonic
Without sexual desire
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Protean
Changing (mercurial)
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Procured
Obtained for
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Pulchritude
Beautiful (comeliness)
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Rubicund
Ruby, flushed, healthy manner
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Ratification
Approval
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Pathos
Feeling of guilt
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Recalcitrant
Disobedient
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Regnant
Ubiquitous, dominant
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Sallow
Yellow, sickly manner
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Jaundiced
Yellow, sickly manner
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Sedulity
Dilligence
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Tetchy
Touchy (petulant)
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Regale
Delight
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Sententious
Concise, terse
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Sacrosanct
Inviolable
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Spate
Array
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Sagacity
Wisdom
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Suffuse
Spread throughout
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Uncanny
Eerie, unnatural
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Canny
Shrewd
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Untoward
Improper
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Ululate
Howl
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Unheralded
Not widely known (obscure)
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Verdigris
Bluish-green (vert)
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Sagacity
Wisdom
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Circumspection
Wisdom
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Judiciousness
Wisdom
