Kaplans Word Groups Flashcards

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Bad mood

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Bilious.          Umbrage
Dudgeon.       Waspish
Irascible
Pettish
Petulant 
Pique
Querulous
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Act quickly

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Abrupt
Apace
Headlong
Impetuous
Precipitate
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Changing quickly

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Capricious
Mercurial
Volatile

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Equal

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Equitable
Equity
Tantamount

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Embarrass

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Abash
Chagrin
Compunction 
Contrition
Diffidence
Expiate
Foible
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Carousel

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Bacchanalian reprobate
Debauchery salacious
Depraved
Dissipated
Iniquity
Ribald
Sordid
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Denying of self

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Abnegate
Abstain
Ascetic
Spartan 
Stoic
Temperate
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Forgive

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Absolve 
Acquit
Exculpate
Exonerate
Redress
Vindicate
Palliate
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Funny

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Chortle.            Raillery
Droll.                 Simper
Facetious
Flippant
Gibe
Jocular 
Ludicrous
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Falsehood

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Apocryphal       Guile
Canard.              Specious
Chicanery
Dissemble
Duplicity
Equivocate
Erroneous
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Gaps/Openings

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Abatement   Orifice
Aperture 
Fissure
Hiatus
Interregnum 
Lull
Rent
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Generous/ kind

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Altruistic 
Beneficent
Clement
Largess
Magnanimous 
Munificent
Unstinting
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Greedy

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Avaricious
Covetous
Mercenary
Miserly
Penurious
Rapacious
Venal
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Hard-hearted

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Asperity   Scathing 
Baleful
Dour
Fell
Malevolent
Mordant
Sardonic
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Harmful

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Baleful.  Perfidious 
Baneful
Deleterious
Inimical
Injurious 
Insidious 
Minatory
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Harsh sounding

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Cacophony 
Din
Dissonant
Raucous
Strident
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Hatred

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Abhorrence.     Malice
Anathema.        Odium 
Antagonism.      Rancor
Antipathy
Detestation
Enmity
Loathing
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Healthy

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Beneficial     Vacillate
Salubrious.   Waver
Salutary
Hesitate
Dither
Oscillate
Teeter
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Hostile

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Antithetic
Churlish
Curmudgeon
Irascible
Malevolent
Misanthropic
Truculent
Vindictive
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Innocent/inexperienced

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Credulous 
Gullible
Ingenuous 
Naive
Novitiate 
Tyro
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Insincere

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Disingenuous 
Dissemeble
Fulsome 
Ostensible
Unctuous
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Investigate

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Appraise 
Ascertain
Assay
Descry
Peruse
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Lazy/sluggish

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Indolent.   Slothful
Inert. Torpid 
Lackadaisical 
Languid
Lassitude
Lethargic
Phlegmatic
Quiescent
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Luck

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Adventitious 
Amulet
Auspicious.   Providential
Fortuitous   Talisman
Kismet
Optimum
Portentous
Propitious
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Nag
``` Admonish Martinet Belabor. Reproof Cavil. Remonstrate Enjoin Exhort Harangue Hector ```
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Nasty
Fetid Noisome Noxious
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Not a straight line
``` Askance Awry. Oblique Careen. Sidle Carom Sinuous Circuitous Circumvent Gyrate. Vortex Labyrinth ```
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Overblown/wordy
``` Bombastic Circumlocution Garrulous Grandiloquent Prolix. Periphrastic Rhetoric Turgid Verbose ```
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Pacify/satisfy
``` Ameliorate. Propitiate Appease. Soothe Assuage. Slake Defer Mitigate Mollify Placate ```
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Pleasant-sounding
Euphonious Harmonious Melodious Sonorous
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Poor
Destitute Esurient Impecunious Indigent
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Praise
``` Acclaim. Laud/laudatory Accolade. Venerate/veneration Aggrandize Encomium Eulogize Extol Fawn ```
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Predict
``` Augur Auspice. Prognosticate Fey Harbinger Portentous Presage Prescient ```
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Prevent/obstruct
``` Discomfort Encumber Fetter Forfend Hinder Impede Inhibit Occlude ```
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Smart/learned
Astute Canny Erudite Perspicacious
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Sorrow
``` Disconsolate. Melancholy Doleful. Plaintive Dolor. Morose Elegiac Forlorn Lament Lugubrious ```
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Stubborn
``` Implacable Inexorable Intractable Obdurate Recalcitrant Refractory Renitent. Vexing ```
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Terse
``` Compendious Curt Laconic Pithy Succinct Taciturn ```
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Time/Order/duration
``` Anachronism Antecede Antedate. Epoch Anterior Archaic Diurnal Eon Ephemeral ```
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Timid
``` Craven Diffident Pusillanimous Recreant Timorous Trepidation ```
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Truth
``` Candor/candid Fealty Frankness Indisputable. Verity Legitimate Probity Sincere Veracious ```
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Unusual
Aberration Anomaly Iconoclast Idiosyncrasy
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Walking about
Ambulatory Itinerant Peripatetic
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Wandering
``` Discursive Expatiate Forage Itinerant Peregrination Peripatetic Sojourn ```
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Weaken
``` Adulterate Enervate Exacerbate Inhibit Obviate Stultify Undermine Vitiate ```
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Wisdom
``` Adage Aphorism Apothegm Axiom Bromide. Truism Dictum Epigram Platitude ```
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Withdrawal / retreat
``` Abeyance Abjure Abnegation. Renege Abortive. Rescind Abrogate Demur. Retrograde Recant Recidivism ```