General Flashcards
(284 cards)
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Scowl
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Frown
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Riled up
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Angry
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Integrity
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Integrity is a personal quality of fairness that will all aspire to.
Quality of being honest.
Integrity refers to the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. It involves maintaining consistency in actions, values, methods, measures, and principles.
Aspire - aim or shoot for.
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Frigid
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Extremely cold
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Coterminous bordering upon, having the common boundary.
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Ward off
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Prevent something / something from harming / affecting one.
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Ward off
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Keep it from happening
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Hover
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Helicopter hovered overhead
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Worrier is not warrior
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Bleak
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Cold and miserable
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Fandom
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The fans of a sport or famous person
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Hover
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Levitate
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Visceral
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Visceral feeling are intuitive.
The fear of mouse you have may not be rational but it is visceral.
When something is visceral you feel it in your guts.
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Vicarious
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Experience through secondhand
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Delusional
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Believe something that’s is possibly not true
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Grapple
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When you wrestle with something — literally or figuratively — you grapple with it, or try to overcome it.
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Bedevil
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Cause great and continual trouble
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Inclement
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Unpleasantly cold or wet.
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Turnover
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Rate of replacement.
Income
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Treacherous
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Not trusted / dangerous.
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Something that’s causes disgust or hatred
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Abomination
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Repulse
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Repel or drive it back
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Install
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Parents work hard to develop, or instill, positive beliefs and values in their children. Interestingly, there’s no corresponding word for when parents pass down their bad habits.
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Laboring away
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Work very hard
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Whirlwind
used in similes and metaphors to describe a very energetic or tumultuous person or process.
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it's just a term of endearment — meant to show affection, not make you miserably embarrassed.
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Rhetoric
Rhetoric is speaking or writing that's intended to persuade.
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Demote
Give someone a lower rank often as a punishment
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Guard or strengthen
Flanked
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Floundering
Struggle to move / stagger
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Gravitate
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Grandiosity
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Vertigo
Feeling that you are spinning / about to fall.
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Repertoire
Full supply of what you can do
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Robust
Strong enough to overcome challenges and adversity
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Adversity
Difficulties
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Fuse
Mix two things together
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Atrocious
Shockley brutal and cruel
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Genial
Friendly and outgoing. Cordial
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Obnoxious
in an extremely unpleasant way, especially in a way that offends people
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Abscond
To escape usually taking something / somebody along with you
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Abscond cal also mean.
Leave hurriedly and secretly
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Make off
Ran away
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Cherry on top
something special is added to something else that is also very nice, to make it even better.
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Reckon
Guess , imagine , suppose, think
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Dead reckoning
Determining the position by estimating the speed and distance travelled.
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Timid
Lack of courage, confidence and easily frightened.
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Pumped out
Produce something quickly and frequently.
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Endeavor
When you endeavor something you try hard to achieve it.
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Contemptible
Worthy of contempt.
Contempt is extreme lack of respect.
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Snob
Condescending, and you like to think you are better than everyone else.
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Heinous
Very wicked and evil
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Devote
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Eschew
Deliberately avoid sth
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Abdication
Formal act of giving up power
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Steep
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Construe
Make sense of something
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Excursion
Trip involving leisure activity
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Gravitas
Seriousness and dignity
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Mobilize
Prepare to spring into action
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Phase out
Withdraw something for use in gradual stages.
Phase out.
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Pander
Appease / gratify often in a negative self serving way.
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Picket
A group of people standing outside a venue protesting
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Rebuke
Express sharp disapproval or criticism of someone because of their behavior / actions.
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Chastise
Scold, rebuke, reprimand.
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Epiphany
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Black man are culturally programmed to cheat
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Cherish
To care about deeply
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Honor your parents
Show respect towards
Love honor and cherish
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Commiserate
Sympathize
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Collate
Arrange pages/ books in a proper order.
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Thump
Hit heavily
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Lengthy & complicated procedure
Rigmarole
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I’m all over it
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Pervert
A person whose sexual behavior is considered and abnormal
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Outburst
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Adjourn
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Plucking / tweezing
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Stakeout
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Chalk up
Attribute something to something else
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Leech
Habitual exploitation
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Smother
Suffocate
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Full fledged
Fully developed
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Hone
Sharpen
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Exacerbate
Make worse
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Abate
Become less in amount / intensity
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Swirl
Spiral , move around in circles.
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Deplane
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De ice
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You can’t have your cake and eat it too
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Trifling / not significant
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Predicament
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like a moth to the flame
Irrististance to attraction of sth
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Tenuous
Very weak/ slight or insubstantial
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Dissing
Speaking disrespectful to / criticize
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Pouting
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Flip out
suddenly lose control or become very angry
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Limbo
Uncertain
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Banish
Send away
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Reeling from sth
feeling extremely surprised or upset because of it
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Class act
Person or a thing displaying impressive and and excellence
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Fret
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Blabbermouth
Someone who gossips indiscreetly
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Strenuously
Work really hard at it
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Learn repartee
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Mean and unfair
Lowdown
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Put someone through the wringer
They suffered a very difficult situation or unpleasant experience.
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Alluded
Suggested
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Aesthetically pleasing
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Cease and desist
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Salubrious
Favorable to health of mind and body
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Recuperate
Restored to good health or strength.
I figured you needed a salubrious environment in which to recuperate.
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Fortify
Make stronger and stronger,
Add beverages/alcohol
Add nutrients to.
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Bomb diggity
Something excellent & really cool
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Knee jerk reaction.
React in a very predictable way without thinking
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Invaluable
Valuable beyond estimations
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Signage
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You have to know how this friendship was first founded.
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She had the audacity
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Tad
To small extent
I’m tad hurt you think I went to a therapist
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Spring
Move suddenly & rapidly upwards & forward.
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Jinx
Bringer of bad luck
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Orthodox / unorthodox- predicting tradition
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Egregious
Outstandingly bad/ shocking
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Chicken/ hen - clucks
The chicken clucks and scratched in the dirt.
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Hit close the home
To be relatable in a negative way
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Delve
Dig into , loosen or investigate
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Preliminary
Something that come before something else.
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Curated
Carefully chosen and thoughtful organized
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Credible
Able to believe , convincing, trustworthy
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Notorious
Well known
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Fostering
Encouraging the development of/ growth is something.
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Trail of breadcrumbs
Something - hint / clue that serves to lead or guide
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Rave
- can mean to talk in a noisy/ excited manner . I.e jabber, rant, mouth off.
- to praise enthusiastically
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Shady
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Fool me once
You fool me twice I have myself to blame.
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Back are against he wall
In a bad position, in which one is forced to do something in order to avoid failure.
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Aghast
Filled with horror or shock
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Colloquial
Casual and conversational
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Diaphragm
A device used for birth control.
I guess I better go and dust off my diaphragm. I’m joking I a drawer full of condoms.
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Convene
Call together.
Summon.
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Unfurl
Roll it out. Unwind the way you do the coiled laptop charger.
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Unfurling
Unfolding
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Coasters
A piece of good or plastic that you put a glass or cup on to protect the surface from heat/ cold. Tea coasters.
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Bureaucracy
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Verbatim
Exact words
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Regurgitated
Bring back up again to the mouth/ vomit.
Repeating back the words without understanding
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Spin
Turn around
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Toot my own horn
Talk boastfully about oneself
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Marinade / sauce, oil, vinegar etc.
Soak in marinade. Call that marinate.
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Tacky
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Bluff
Deceive
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Leg up on
Take advantage over others
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Miniscule
Extremely small or tiny
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Separatist
A person who supports separation of two groups / organization.
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Rebuff
Reject
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Baffled
Be a mystery
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Bewildered
Something that confused you
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Fesses up
Admit that
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Dolly dally
Waste time through aimless wandering
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Lewd
Sexually inappropriate.
Like saying I’m wet in public that will be considered lewd.
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Tramp
Walk or stomp heavily
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File
A file and filing a knife.
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Be out in the cold
Be ignored by others , not invited
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Storm out right now
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Howl
To make a loud, sad and crying sound.
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Yammering
Talk on and on about nothing at all
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Detractor
A detractor is someone who puts you down. When you're proposing ideas at work, your detractor is the person who finds fault with everything you say.
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Percolate
Spread gradually.
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Cushy
Comfortable
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Thinning out
Decrease in size /extent
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Prolific readers
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Gauche
Unsophisticated and socially awkward
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Carve out
Carve out a half an hour here and there. Helps me relax.
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Tension subsides
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Coven
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Brat
Badly behaved child
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Jockey
struggle by every available means to gain or achieve something.
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Sleight
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You once thought it’s unattainable.
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Nondescript
Lacking distinctiveness or interesting features or characteristics.
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Ordinariness
the quality of being commonplace and ordinary
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Flattery
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Cough up
Give reluctantly
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Very much sound up with nothing
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Candid
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Understatement
Minimization
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Emphatically
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Horrendous
Extremely unpleasant, very terrible
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Meager
Lacking in quality or quantity.
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Startling
Very surprising astonishing or remarkable
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Poignant
Touches you deeply
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haute couture
expensive, fashionable clothes produced by leading fashion houses.
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Patronizing
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Ruin the flow/ wreck a flow
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Aftermath
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Devours
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Deranged
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Guzzle
Eat and drink greedily
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Obligatory
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Parsimonious
Stingy frugal
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Cross dresser
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Ominous
Giving an impress that something bad is going to happen
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Euphoria
Feeling of great happiness and well being
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Euphoria
Dysphoria
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Disposition
A person usual temperament or frame of mind.
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Retard
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Keep your eye on the ball
Continue thinking about or giving attention to something important.
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Serendipity
the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
Serendipitous
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Duel
It’s a fight and not a duel
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Anthology
A collection of poems, stories
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Earshot
Range or distance within which other person can ear.
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Muttered
Say something in a low and barely audible voice.
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Derogatory
Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude
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Forfeit
Lose or deprived of
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Denigrate
Say bad things try or false about a person.
Criticize unfairly
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Relentlessness
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Expediency
Expediency gets you what you want. While its tone can be neutral, expediency often suggests self-interest, possibly at the expense of doing what's right.
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Hung out to dry
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Lenient
Merciful
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Recess
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Rebuttal
Refute
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Gargle
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Ramifications
Consequences
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Spare 5 minutes for this.
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Minion
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Yank
Pull or move suddenly and sharply
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Juvenile
A young person
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Delinquent
Young offender, failing in what duty requires
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Engulf
Something
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Condiment
Flavor/
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Hospice
Facility to take care of the I’ll / home care facility.
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Trepidation
Feeling of fear.
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Ominous
giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.
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Enthused
say something that expresses one's eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
"they both enthused over my new look"
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Rumor mill
Process by which the rumors start and spread.
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Guardianship and care provided deity or a god.
Providence
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Winter of discontent
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Spring of enchantment
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Enchantment
feeling of great pleasure; delight.
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Veto
Constitutional right to reject a decision or a proposal made by law making body.
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Dignity is overrated for mistress don’t you think
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Consolidate. Foothold
Join together on one whole.
Position usable as the foundation/ base for further advances - foothold.
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Insult
Rude expression intending to offend or hurt someone.
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Break break
I don’t get soften up by a nice dinner and dancing with a beautiful woman. You asked me what I want and I told you.
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I worked to hard on it just to abandon it.
Just brainstorming ideas.
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Treading the water
Be not advancing in any way.
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Hypnotized
Capture the whole attention.
Mesmerize, fascinate.
Hypnosis
the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction
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Souvenir
a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event.
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Trampled
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Captivating
Capable of holding interest. Charming.
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Bewildered
Confused , perplexed or puzzled .
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Delighted
Feeling or showing great pleasure.
I’m delighted to be here.
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Hilarious
Very funny / extremely amusing
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Miserable
Exceptionally unhappy.
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You know what people think when he takes his father’s company.
That his father is proud of him.
That he didn’t earn it, so that why I’m not looking to advertise the fact that I once had an affair.
You are not advertising it.
You disclosing it. Let something private to be known. You disclose them.
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This isn’t coincidental encounter. Is it.
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Debatable
Open to discussion or argument.
Balls are debatable.
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Delicious
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I’m not throwing gasoline on a pile if matches just to see what happens.
Not doing something you know the obvious repercussion for.
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You both have a brain and a dick, and both of you are the meeting the brains won’t be leading that conversation.
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Trainwreck
Utter disaster or mess.
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Tuck
Fold, gather, insert.
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The ability to tuck your ankles behind your head.
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Cherish
Protect and care for.
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Perpetrators will be found and brought to justice.
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Pulling teeth
Used to indicate that something is difficult and frustration.
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Pander
Appease.
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Rile up
Make agitated or angry
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What struck me.
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In retrospect
After consideration, what I wish I’d do different.
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The reality of goodness not the perception of it.
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People care about looking good but doing evil.
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Propensity
Inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way.
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Affinity
Spontaneous or natural liking or sympathy for someone or something.
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Conflate
Combine two into one
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The hands were tucked behind his back
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Blindsided
Getting attacked from unexpected position / catch unprepared
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Hoist
Lift up with ropes and pulleys.
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Spite
Desire to hurt, annoy or offend
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Impeccable
Describe someone or something without any flaws.
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Wreak
Cause something to happen especially terrible consequences.
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Withering
Weaken or
Annihilate,
Wreak or capable of wreaking complete destruction.
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Acerbic
Harshly bitter.
It can leave a bitter taste in your mouth.
