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Group 2 Flashcards

1
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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance

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Impassive

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Not feeling or showing emotions

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3
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Unswerving

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Not changing or becoming weaker. steady or constant

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Abashed

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Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed

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5
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Onerous

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Involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome

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Sophomoric

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Pretentious or juvenile

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7
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Diatribe

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A forceful and bitter verbal attack

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Denigrate

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Criticize unfairly

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Astringent

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Smells acidic or bitter. Causing the contraction of skin cells and other body tissue

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Conciliatory

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Intended to likely placate or pacify

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Affront

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An action or remark that causes outrage or offense

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Credulous

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Ready to believe anything

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13
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Consonant

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A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partially obstructed. In agreement or harmony with

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14
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Comely

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Pleasant to look at. Attractive.

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15
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Affable

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Friendly and good natured

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16
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Specious

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Misleading in appearance. Plausible but false

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17
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Recalcitrant

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Uncooperative in attitude

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18
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Covert

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Not openly acknowledged or displayed

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19
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Commiseration

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Sympathy and sorrow for the misfortune of others. Compassion

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Consternation

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Feelings of anxiety and dismay, typically at something unexpected

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21
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Surrogate

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a substitute, especially a person deputizing for another in a specific role or office.

22
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Extraneous

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Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.

23
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Sojourn

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A temporary stay

24
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Mettlesome

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Full of spirit and courage

25
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Officious

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Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way. Intrusively enthusiastic in offering help, interfering

26
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Ubiquity

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The act of appearing everywhere, or being very common

27
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Obtuse

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Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

28
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Dilatory

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Slow to act. Intended to cause delay

29
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Edifices

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A building, especially a large, imposing one. A complex system of beliefs

30
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Desiccate

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To dry out or dehydrate. To make dry or dull

31
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Obviate

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To anticipate and make unnecessary

32
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Obdurate

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Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action

33
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Caustic

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Able to burn or corrode organic tissue

34
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Inchoate

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Just begun. Not fully formed or developed

35
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Propagate

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To cause to spread, multiply or reproduce

36
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Plod

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To trudge. To move slowly and heavily

37
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Distention

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The state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape

38
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Variegated

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Exhibiting different colors, especially as irregular patterns or streaks

39
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Recluse

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A person who live a solitary life and tend to avoid other people

40
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Imperturbable

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Unable to be upset or excited. Calm

41
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Irascible

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Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered

42
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Fervently

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Very enthusiastically or passionately

43
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Polemically

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Contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position

44
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Abated

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Become less intense or widespread

45
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Propitiate

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Offer a gift to appease someone

46
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Windfall

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A piece of unexpected good fortune

47
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Emollient

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Having the quality of softening or soothing the skin

48
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Divest

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To remove or strip, especially clothing

49
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Opprobrium

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Disgrace , contempt , shame

50
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Prune

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To cut back or clip branches or other parts of plants, especially parts that are dead.

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