Ivy Insiders Flashcards
(77 cards)
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choleric
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easily angered
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celerity
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speed
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animosity
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hatred; antagonism
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censorious
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critical
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censure
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to blame
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extrinsic
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irrelevant; on the outside
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prevaricate
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speak misleadingly
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unfrock
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to remove priest from his position
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charlatan
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someone who boasts knowledge he doesn’t have
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dike
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dam
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sentinel
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guard
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unwitting
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unconscious; not deliberate
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chary
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wary of; cautious about
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dilatory
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slow; falling behind on work
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prodigal
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wasteful; extravagent
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sequester
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to isolate
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upbraid
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to scold; to reprimand
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fatuous
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silly; foolish
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anthropocentric
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putting man at the center of one’s philosophy
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chimerical
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changeable; unstable
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pariah
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outcast
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urbane
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sophisticated, suave
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fecund
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fertile
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inebriation
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to be drunk; intoxicated
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parity
equality
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usurp
to take someone's position
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dirge
mournful song
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parochial
narrow-minded
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martinet
person who believes in strict discipline
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apocryphal
a doubtful origin
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circumlocution
overly wordy
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masochist
someone who intentionally inflicts pain on oneself
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parry
to avoid; to dodge; to ward off
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vacillate
to waver; to hesitate
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parsimonious
economical; frugal; thrifty
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vacuous
empty; silly; meaningless
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circumspect
cautious; considering all sides
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inexorable
relentless
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arable
can be cultivated to grow crops
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proscribe
to forbid
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vapid
dull; uninspiring
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discursiveness
long winded; indirect
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prostration
lying face down; extreme weakness
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menagerie
collection of animals
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flout
to defy; to reject
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venal
corrupt; can be bribed
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dotard
foolish old man
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percipient
perceptive; insightful
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quaff
drink down quickly
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staunch
loyal; faithful
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vilification
blackening someone's name
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drawl
speak slowly with words running
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misogynist
hater of women
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perdition
damnation
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attenuate
weaken
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drivel
nonsense
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futile
useless; hopeless
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peremptory
in a commanding manner
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stevedore
dockworker
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complacent
self-satisfied; smug
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droll
dryly amusing
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perfidy
treachery
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virulent
dangerous; harmful
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auspicious
favorable; promising to turn out well
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gambol
to frolic; to leap
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intransigence
stubbornness
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concatenate
link together
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garble
to distort; to confuse
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peripatetic
nomadic
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quarry
to prey; to mine for stone
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stoke
to add fuel; to strengthen
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vitriolic
corrosive; strongly attacking
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intrepid
brave
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peripheral
on the edge; not important
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querulous
always complaining
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inveterate
habitual; chronic
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moratorium
temporary prohibiting
