List 2 Flashcards

(30 cards)

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Privation

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Hardship, want

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Primp

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To groom oneself with care, adorn oneself

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Prod

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To poke, stir up, urge

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Prodigious

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Marvelous, enormous. Prodigious strength

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Profligate

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Wasteful, wildly immoral

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Profound

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Deep, not superficial. Complete. Profound understanding.

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Profusion

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Overabundance, lavish expenditure, excess

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Preogative

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Privilege, unquestionable right

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Presage

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To foretell

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Prescience

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The ability to foretell the future

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Presentiment

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Feeling something will happen, anticipatory fear, premonition

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Presumtuous

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Overconfident, impertinently bold

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Preternatural

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Beyond what is normal in nature

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Pretext

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Excuse

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Prevaricate

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To lie

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Prim

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Very precise and formal

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Primordial

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Existing at the beginning

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Finicky

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Too particular, fussy

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Flaccid

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Flabby, flaccid muscles

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Flair

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Fleck

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To spot. flecked with tears

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Fleece

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To rob, plunder. I fleeced him of his $$

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Flippant

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Lacking proper seriousness

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Floe

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Mass of floating ice

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Florid
Flowery
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Flounder
To struggle and thrash about. Proceed clumsily or falter.
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Fluke
Unlikely occurrence, stroke of fortune
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Fluster
To confuse, bemuse
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Flux
Flowing, series of changes
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Fodder
Coarse food for cattle horses etc.