Hackers Lesson 6-10 Flashcards by Bill Kim

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hackneyed

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overused, trite

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mundane

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ordinary, typical

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vacuous

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lacking substance

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prosaic

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unimaginative, ordinary

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insipid

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uninteresting, dull, without favor

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banal

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ordinary, trivial

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pedestrian

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commonplace, ordinary

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dormant

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inactive, sleeping

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unanimous

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in full agreement

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uniform

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unvarying, always the same

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equanimity

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the quality of being even-tempered

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magnanimous

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noble of heart, generous, forgiving

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sanguine

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cheerfully optimistic

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phlegmatic

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sluggish

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melancholy

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sad, depressed

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choleric

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easily angered

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recalcitrant

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stubbornly resistant to authority

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lethargic

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sluggish; dully apathetic

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splenetic

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irritable, easily angered

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querulous

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disposed to complaining

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dolorous

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marked by or expressive of sorrow or pain

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animosity

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hostility, ill-will

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pusillanimous

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cowardly

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lassitude

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feeling of weakness or listlessness

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spurious

fake; counterfeit

guile

trickery; deceit

beguile

to deceive with charm

stratagem

a deceitful scheme

surreptitious

deceptive; sneaky

clandestine

secret; hidden

stealth

sneakiness; ability to avoid detection

duplicity

deceit; hypocritical deception

specious

false, but plausible

furtive

secretive; sneaky

pseudonym

pen name

fallacious

deceptive; false

rapacious

greedy; ravenous

transient

fleeting; short-lived

ephemeral

short-lived

sporadic

irregular or unpredictable; infrequent

capricious

whimsical; impulsive

evanescent

likely to vanish

extemporaneous

done with little or no practice

anachronism

something out of place in time

transitory

lasting for a short time

expedite

to speed up

influx

a flowing in

superfluous

beyond what is necessary or sufficient

contemporaneous

occurring at the same time

interminable

never ending

protracted

prolonged; extended in time

censure

official condemnation; harsh criticism

calumny

slander; false accusation

diatribe

malicious criticism or abuse

caustic

corrosive; sarcastic

repudiate

to cast off publicly

derogatory

disparaging; belittling

admonish

to reprimand mildly

disparage

to belittle; to demean

impugn

to attack as untrue; to refute by argument

malediction

to attack the character of; to disparage

harangue

a long, critical, and pompous speech

pejorative

tending to make worse

slander

comments that injure another's reputation