Kaplan 5 Flashcards

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Provincial

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Limited in outlook, narrow in ideas

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Pretentious

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Showy, self important

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Quaint

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Pleasantly old fashioned, picturesque

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Quell

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To put an end to, to squelch, to calm

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Quintessential

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The most perfect example

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Quixotic

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Foolishly impractical

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Raucous

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Harsh sounding, noisy and disorderly

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Rebuff

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To snub, to refuse in a blunt or rude way

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Rebuke

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To criticize or reprimand sharply

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Reciprocal

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Mutual, shared, interchangeable

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Relegate

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Dismiss to a less prominent position

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Relic

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An object associated with saint, something they remains from the past

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Reprehensible

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Deserving blame

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Reprove

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To gently criticize

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Rescind

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To cancel, to repeal

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Resilient

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An ability to recover, to adjust easily

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Respite

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An interval if rest, a temporary delay

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Resplendent

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Brutally ant, gloriously bright

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Robust

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Strong and healthy, vigorous

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Rustic

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Primitive, rural, lacking city comforts

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Saccharine

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Excessively sweet

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Sardonic

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Disdainful, scornfully mocking

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Scanty

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Hardly sufficient

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Scintillate

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To sparkle, to gleam,

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Servile

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Submissive, behaving like a slave

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Sloth

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Sluggish, indolence , laziness

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Spurious

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False, fake not genuine

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Steadfast

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Loyal, faithful

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Stoic

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Showing indifference to pain, apathetic

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Stratagem

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A trick or deceptive scheme

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Strident

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Loud, harsh

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Stymie

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To get in the way, to block, to hinder

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Succinct

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Concise, clearly expressed in a few words

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Surfeit

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Abundance, excessive

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Surmise

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Abundance, excessive amount

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Table

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To remove from consideration

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Tedious

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Boring, tiresome

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Teem

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To swarm, to be inundated, to become full of overflowing

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Temperance

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Habitual moderation, the avoidance of excess

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Tenet

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A principle, doctrine or belief held as do by a group

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Tenuous

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Flimsy

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Tepid

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Lukewarm, unenthusiastic, halfhearted

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Terse

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Concise, brief,

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Theology

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Study of god or religion

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Thwart

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To block, hinder