Incorrect Words Flashcards
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conviviality
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friendliness or agreeableness
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japery
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good-natured mockery
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enigmatic
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says or does mysterious things
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vacuous
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empty or vain
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myopic
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short-sighted
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laudatory
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expressing praise
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homage
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expression of respect
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paean
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expression of respect
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espoused
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supported
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obsequious
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someone who will as a form of flattery do everything another person says
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ambled
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walk leisurely
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vacillated
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wavered
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ribald
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vulgar
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lascivious
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obscene or vulgar
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captious
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easily displeased
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fetid
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disgusting aroma
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malodorous
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disgusting aroma
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impecunious
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impoverished
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indigent
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impoverished
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fulsome
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excessive or over the top
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unctuous
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excessively smug
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septuagenarian
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term for someone in her 70s
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hoary
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gray or white withage
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deferential
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courteous and respectful
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castigate
to punish or criticize harshly
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equivocal
undecided; trying to deceive
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cogitation
thoughtful considerations
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belied
proved false
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gregarious
highly sociable
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fidelity
accuracy in details
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incisive
clear and correct
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capricious
erratic
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specious
false
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incipient
just beginning
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quixotic
Exceedingly idealistic
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vitriolic
harsh or corrosive in tone
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salubrious
Health-giving; healthy
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vagrant
homeless
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impecunious
Having little or no money.
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dissembling
disquise true feelings
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unctuous
falsely earnest
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fulsome
insincerely lavish
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espoused
Adopt or support
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perspicuous
Clearly expressed and easily understood
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luculent
transparently clear; easily understandable
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calumny
slander
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imprudent
careless
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abject
miserable
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caustic
biting or sarcastic
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facile
easy or superficial
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apocryphal
erroneous or factitious
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redolent
pleasant smelling
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pernicious
causing harm
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temperate
moderate
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dolorous
depressed
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abashed
embarassed
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paean
1.A song of praise or triumph.
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ribald
vulgar
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lascivious
vulgar
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diluvial
related to a flood
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fetid
disgusting aroma
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apologists
those who defend through reasoned argument
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demagogue
people who use emotion to persuade
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abecedarians
beginners
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exiguous
scanty
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supercilious
arrogant
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inure
familiarize
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vilipended
Regard as worthless or of little value; despise
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engendered
Cause or give rise to
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espoused
1. Adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).
| 2. Marry.
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pellucid
1. Translucently clear.
| 2. Lucid in style or meaning; easily understood.
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affable
Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.
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perspicuous
1. (of an account or representation) Clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid.
2. (of a person) Able to give an account or express an idea clearly
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magisterial
1. Having or showing great authority: "a magisterial pronouncement".
2. Domineering; dictatorial.
