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Group 12 Flashcards

1
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Acrimonious

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Angry and bitter

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2
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Belligerent

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hostile and aggressive

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Beneficent

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generous and doing good

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Canny

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showing shrewdness and good judgement especially in money or business

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5
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Cavalier

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Dashing man as a lady’s escort/showing lack of concern

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Distressed

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Suffered from extreme anxiety, sorrow or pain

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Dwindling

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Gradually diminishing in size, amount or strength

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Eclipse

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deprive something of significance and power

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Encyclopedia

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Comprehensive in terms of information

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10
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Exacerbate

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Make problems worse

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11
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Exasperated

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Intensely irritated and frustrated

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12
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Fungible

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Mutually interchangeable

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13
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Hackneyed

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having been overused; unoriginal and trite

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Incongruous

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not in harmony or keeping with surroundings

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15
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Interchangeable

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Apparently identical

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16
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Laconic

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Using very few words

17
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Lucrative

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providing a great deal or profit

18
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Magisterial

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Domineering, dictatorial

19
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Onerous

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Involving great deal of effort, trouble, and burdensome

20
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Oppobrium

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Harsh criticism or censure

21
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Parsimonious

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very unwilling to spend money or use resources

22
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Peripheral

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Minor importance, marginal

23
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Provocative

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Causing anger or another strong reaction, especially deliberately/annoying

24
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Renounce

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Formally declare one’s abandoment

25
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Tempestuous

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Characterized by strong or conflicting emotion

26
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Tenable

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Defensible

27
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Transgression

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Act that goes against law

28
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Urbane

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Courteous and refined in manner

29
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Verisimilitude

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The appearance of being true or real

30
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Vitiate

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Spoil or impair thee quality or efficiency of something

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