Kaplans Word Groups Flashcards
(47 cards)
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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
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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
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Askance
Awry. Oblique
Careen. Sidle
Carom Sinuous
Circuitous
Circumvent
Gyrate. Vortex
Labyrinth
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Overblown/wordy
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Bombastic
Circumlocution
Garrulous
Grandiloquent
Prolix. Periphrastic
Rhetoric
Turgid
Verbose
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Pacify/satisfy
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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
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Acclaim. Laud/laudatory
Accolade. Venerate/veneration
Aggrandize
Encomium
Eulogize
Extol
Fawn
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Predict
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Augur
Auspice. Prognosticate
Fey
Harbinger
Portentous
Presage
Prescient
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Prevent/obstruct
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Discomfort
Encumber
Fetter
Forfend
Hinder
Impede
Inhibit
Occlude
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Smart/learned
Astute
Canny
Erudite
Perspicacious
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Sorrow
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Disconsolate. Melancholy
Doleful. Plaintive
Dolor. Morose
Elegiac
Forlorn
Lament
Lugubrious
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Stubborn
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Implacable
Inexorable
Intractable
Obdurate
Recalcitrant
Refractory
Renitent. Vexing
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Terse
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Compendious
Curt
Laconic
Pithy
Succinct
Taciturn
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Time/Order/duration
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Anachronism
Antecede
Antedate. Epoch
Anterior
Archaic
Diurnal
Eon
Ephemeral
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Timid
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Craven
Diffident
Pusillanimous
Recreant
Timorous
Trepidation
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Truth
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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
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Discursive
Expatiate
Forage
Itinerant
Peregrination
Peripatetic
Sojourn
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Weaken
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Adulterate
Enervate
Exacerbate
Inhibit
Obviate
Stultify
Undermine
Vitiate
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Wisdom
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Adage
Aphorism
Apothegm
Axiom
Bromide. Truism
Dictum
Epigram
Platitude
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Withdrawal / retreat
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Abeyance
Abjure
Abnegation. Renege
Abortive. Rescind
Abrogate
Demur. Retrograde
Recant
Recidivism
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