Hit parade Flashcards
(61 cards)
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Pragmatic
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Practical, down to earth.
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Tenacious
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Tough, hard to defeat
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Disparage
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To belittle, to say something bad about
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Esoteric
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Hard to understand
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Contrite
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Deeply apologetic
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Objective
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Without bias
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Reticent
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Restrained
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Mitigate
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To lessen the severity of something
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Enigma
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Mystery
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Volatile
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Quick to evaporate
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Deference
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Submission to another’s will, respect
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Discernment
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Insight
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Conciliatory
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Making peace
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Virulent
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Extremely poisonous, malignant
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Complacent
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Smug, self satisfied
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Laudable
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Worthy of praise
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Depravity
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Moral corruption
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Banal
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Unoriginal
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Euphony
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Opposite of cacophony
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Austere
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Unadorned, sternum
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Vacillate
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To be indecisive
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Ascetic
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Hermit like, practicing self denial
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Volition
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Conscious choice
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Didactic
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Instructive
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Ephemeral
Short lived
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Prosaic
Dull and unimaginitive
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Fastidious
Meticulous
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Languish
To become weak or depressed
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Censure
To condemn
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Engender
To create
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Relegate
To banish
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Fallacious
False
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Efface
To erase or rub away features
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Taciturn
Quiet
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Ameliorate
To make better
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Acquiesce
To give in or agree
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Atrophy
To waste away from lack of use
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Coalesce
To fuse
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Levity
Lightness or frivolity
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Sycophant
Suck up
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Caustic
Like acid- corrosive
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Incongruous
Not harmonious
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Scrupulous
Strict or careful
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Respite
A rest or period of relief
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Hedonistic
Indulgent
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Apocryphal
Doubtful of origin, false
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Auspicious
Favorable
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Capricious
Whimsical, fickle
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Hackneyed
Banal, overused
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Bastion
Stronghold or fortress
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Trepidation
Fear, aprehension
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Torpor
Sluggishness
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Pedestrian
Common or ordinary
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Paucity
Scarcity
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Ambulatory
Able to walk
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Parsimony
Stinginess
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Propriety
Good manners
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Blithe
Carefree
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Irascible
Irritable
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Saccharine
Sweet
