Group 1 Flashcards

(50 cards)

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Munificent

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Larger or more generous than is usual or necessary

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Dour

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Relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance

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Slatwart

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Loyal, reliable and hardworking

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Affected

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Influenced or touched by an external factor. artificial, pretentious, and designed to impress.

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Dogged

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Having or showing tenacity and grim persistence

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Blithe

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Showing a casual and cheerful indifference. Considered Callous and improper

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Clairvoyant

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A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to see the future

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Lackluster

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Lacking in vitality, force, convention. Uninspiring.

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Touted

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Attempt to sell something, typically in aggressive or bold manner

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Approbation

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Approval or praise

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Blunted

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make or become less sharp, weaken or reduce in force

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Scant

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A small or insufficient amount

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Apposite

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Things that are compatible, goes together

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Repudiation

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Rejection of a proposal or idea. Denial of the truth of something

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Bulwark

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A defensive wall. Extension of a ship’s side above deck level

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Nascent

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Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of life

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Enumeration

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The action of mentioning a number of things one by one

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Inundate

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To flood, overwhelm

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Callous

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Showing or having insensitive and cruel disregard for others

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Rotund

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Plump (fat), indulging in grandiloquent expressions

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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad and dismal

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Despondent

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In low spirit from loss of hope or courage

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Aggregate

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The total amount. Form a group into class or cluster

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Pandemonium

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Wild and noisy disorder or confusion. Uproar.

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Penurious
Extremely poor
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Interpid
Fearless
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Surfeit
An excessive amount of something
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Vestige
A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exist
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Proclivity
A tendency to choose or do something regulary
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Perfunctory
Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection
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Variegation
Appearance of differently colored zones in leaves
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Dissemble
To disguise or conceal. To mislead
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Abscond
Leave in a hurry and secret
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Opprobrium
Harsh criticism or censure. the public disgrace arising from someone's shameful conduct.
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Squander
Waste in a reckless and foolish manner
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Discomfit
Make feel uneasy or embarrassed
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Indolence
Avoidance of activity or exertion. Laziness.
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Avers
State or assert to be the case
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Exculpates
Show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrong doing
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Forswears
Agree to give up or do something. Swears falsely.
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Substantiates
Provide evidence to support or prove the truth
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Broaches
Raise for discussion. Pierce a cask to draw liquor.
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Verdant
Green with grass or other green vegetation
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Insipid
Lacking flavor. Lacking vigor or interest.
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Lucid
Easily understood
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Virulent
Extremely severe or harmful in effect. Bitterly hostile.
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Endemic
Regularly found among particular people or certain area. Native and restricted to a certain place
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Moribound
At the point of death
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Deft
Neatly skillful and quick in one's movement
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Meek
Quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on. Submissive