Group6 Flashcards

(39 cards)

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Quibble

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To argue over insignificant and irrelevant details

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Quiescent

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Inactive; still

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Qualm

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Sudden feeling of faintness or nausea; uneasy feeling about the rightness of actions

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Qualified

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Limited, restricted

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Quail

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Cower (crouch down in fear)

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Quagmire

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Marsh; difficult situation

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly

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Purport

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Profess, suppose, claim

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Pungent

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Sharp or strong in smell or taste; penetrating, caustic; to the point

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Prohibitive

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So high as to prevent the purchase or use of

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Propensity

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Inclination, tendency

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Propitiate

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To win over, appease

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Libation

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Pouring out a drink as offering to a deity

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Contagion

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Spread of a harmful idea or practice (or disease)

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Propriety

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Correct conduct; fitness

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Proscribe

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To condemn, forbid, outlaw

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Provident

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Providing future needs, frugal

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Puissant

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Punctilious

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Careful in observing rules if behaviour or ceremony

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Premonition

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Forewarning, presentiment

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Presage

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To foretell, indicate in advance

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Presumptuous

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Rude, improperly bold, readiness to presume

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Preternatural

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Beyond the normal course of nature; supernatural

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Prevaricate

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To quibble; evade the truth

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Pristine
Uncorrupted
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Probity
Honesty; high-mindedness
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Prodigal
Wasteful, extravagant, lavish
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Prate
To talk idly, chatter
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Prattle
Meaningless, foolish talk
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Preamble
Preliminary statement
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Precarious
Uncertain
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Precept
Principle, law
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Precipitate
To cause to happen, throw down from a height
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Precursor
Forerunner, predecessor
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Preempt
To supersede, to appropriate for oneself
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Prehensile
Capable of grasping
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Platitude
Stale, overused expression
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Platonic
Spiritual, w/I sensual desire
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Plethora
Excess, overabundance