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Group 1 Flashcards

1
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Munificent

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Larger or more generous than is usual or necessary

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2
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Dour

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Relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance

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3
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Slatwart

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Loyal, reliable and hardworking

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4
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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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5
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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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7
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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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8
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Lackluster

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Lacking in vitality, force, convention. Uninspiring.

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9
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Touted

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Attempt to sell something, typically in aggressive or bold manner

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10
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Approbation

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Approval or praise

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11
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Blunted

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make or become less sharp, weaken or reduce in force

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12
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Scant

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A small or insufficient amount

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13
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Apposite

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Things that are compatible, goes together

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14
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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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15
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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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16
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Nascent

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Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of life

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17
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Enumeration

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The action of mentioning a number of things one by one

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18
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Inundate

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To flood, overwhelm

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19
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Callous

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Showing or having insensitive and cruel disregard for others

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20
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Rotund

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Plump (fat), indulging in grandiloquent expressions

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21
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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad and dismal

22
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Despondent

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In low spirit from loss of hope or courage

23
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Aggregate

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The total amount. Form a group into class or cluster

24
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Pandemonium

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Wild and noisy disorder or confusion. Uproar.

25
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Penurious

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Extremely poor

26
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Interpid

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Fearless

27
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Surfeit

A

An excessive amount of something

28
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Vestige

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A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exist

29
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Proclivity

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A tendency to choose or do something regulary

30
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Perfunctory

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Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection

31
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Variegation

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Appearance of differently colored zones in leaves

32
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Dissemble

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To disguise or conceal. To mislead

33
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Abscond

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Leave in a hurry and secret

34
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Opprobrium

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Harsh criticism or censure. the public disgrace arising from someone’s shameful conduct.

35
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Squander

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Waste in a reckless and foolish manner

36
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Discomfit

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Make feel uneasy or embarrassed

37
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Indolence

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Avoidance of activity or exertion. Laziness.

38
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Avers

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State or assert to be the case

39
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Exculpates

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Show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrong doing

40
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Forswears

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Agree to give up or do something. Swears falsely.

41
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Substantiates

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Provide evidence to support or prove the truth

42
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Broaches

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Raise for discussion. Pierce a cask to draw liquor.

43
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Verdant

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Green with grass or other green vegetation

44
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Insipid

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Lacking flavor. Lacking vigor or interest.

45
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Lucid

A

Easily understood

46
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Virulent

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Extremely severe or harmful in effect. Bitterly hostile.

47
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Endemic

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Regularly found among particular people or certain area. Native and restricted to a certain place

48
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Moribound

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At the point of death

49
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Deft

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Neatly skillful and quick in one’s movement

50
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Meek

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Quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on. Submissive

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