High Frequency Word list Flashcards

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Engender

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Cause or give rise to

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Repudiate

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Refuse to accept

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Assuage

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Make a Unpleasant feeling less intense

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Precedent

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standard or guide

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Preclude

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prevent from happening

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Ubiquitous

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present, Found everywhere

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Detractor

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A person who disparages someone or something. Critic

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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Vindicate

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Clear someone of blame

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Buttress

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Source of defense or support. Strengthen

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Absolved

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Free from guilt

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Paucity

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The presence of something only in a small or insufficient amount

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innocuous

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Not harmful or offence

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Conjecture

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Hypothesis, speculation

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Capricious

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given to sudden and unaccountable changes in mood or behavior.

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Alacrity

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Brisk and cheerful readiness

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Nebulous

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Vague or ill-defined, ambiguous

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Evince

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Show, Indicate

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Unprecedented

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Never known or done before

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Unequivocal

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Leaving no doubt

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Spurious

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False or Fake

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Ineluctable

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Unable to be resisted or avoided

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Copious

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Abundant in supply

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Irreprochable

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Faultless

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Amorphous
Without a clearly designed shape or form
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Supplant
Supersede and replace
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Placate
Make someone less angry
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Coalesce
Combine
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Ameliorate
Make better
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Superfluous
Unnecessary
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Austere
severe or strict in manner
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Appraise
Evaluate
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Idiosyncratic
Peculiar or individualistic
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Equitable
Fair
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Apprise
Inform or tell
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Permeate
spread throughout
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Misconstructed
Interpret wrongly
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Juxtapose
Place them closely together for a contrasting effect
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Interspersed
Scatter among or between other things
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Augment
make greater
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Substantiate
Validate
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Vacuity
Lack of thought or intelligence
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Untenable
Implausible, indefensible
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Scrupulous
attentive to details
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Incongruous
Incompatible
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Myriad
Multitude
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Insuperable
impossible to overcome
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Discern
Recognize or find out
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Proliferate
Increase in numbers
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Sporadic
Occasional
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Exactitude
Very accurate or careful
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Hew out
carve out or cut out
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Extrapolate
Extend the application of
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Tenuous
weak or slight
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Jostle
shove
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Dogmatic
Opinionated
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Reverence
Deep respect or admiration
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Banal
Lacking in originality
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Prudence
quality of being cautious
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Vacillating
Fluctuate
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Stalwart
Loyal
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Pretentious
showy
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Subversive
Disruptive
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Inextricable
Impossible to distinguish
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Inducement
Incentive
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Presage
Foreshadow
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Extraneous
Irrelevant
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Pernicious
Deadly or harmful
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Insular
Limited or restricted
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Defunct
No longer in effect or in use
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Ingenious
Clever
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Pristine
perfect
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stymied
to prevent
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Noxious
Toxic, harmful
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Unpalatability
Distasteful
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monetize
to earn revenue
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Corroborate
confrim
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Loquacious
Talkative
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precipitating
cause
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Disparage
being of little worth
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outstrip
exceed
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Circumvent
avoid
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Obviate
Remove
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Putative
Accepted
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Elide
delete, omit when speaking
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Sequester
Isolate
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Ephemeral
momentary
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Verdant
grassy
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Thwarted
foil, derail
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Percolate
Drain
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Festoons
Wreath
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Virtuosity
Mastery
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Gratification
Satisfaction
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Dissimilitude
diversity, not similar
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Concomitant
Accompanying
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Agglomeration
cluster, clump, collection of things
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Convoluted
Complicated
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Arbitrary
Based on random choice
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Efficacy
effectiveness
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Indoctrinate
Brainwash
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Autonomy
Liberty, Freedom
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Conspicuous
clearly visible
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Corpus
Collection
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Throng
mass, multitude
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Dissipate
disapear
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Venearate
respect
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Precarious
Uncertain
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Satiate
satisfied to the full
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Gamut
Spectrum
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mutability
changeable
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Proclivity
Inclination to choose or do something
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Perpetuate
Continue
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Temporal
Relating to time
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Innate
inbred, inborn
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Proponent
Advocate
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Unbridled
Uncontrolled