List 4 Flashcards by Hannah Panda

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Impecunious

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Having no money

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Cantankerous

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Bad-tempered; quarrelsome

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Salubrious

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Health-giving; healthy; pleasant (place)

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Truant

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Shirker; someone absent without permission

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Capacious

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Spacious

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Precipitous

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Done in a hurry

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Salutary

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Something that teaches you a lesson; beneficial

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Capitulate

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Surrender; give in

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Ossify

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Turn to bone

2. Become fixed and rigid

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Preclude

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Prevent or make impossible

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Sanctimonious

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Hypocritically holy; pretending to be morally superior to others

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Carping

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Constant criticism

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Lummox

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Clumsy person

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Sanction

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Give approval to

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Turpitude

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Depravity; wickedness

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Cartographer

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Person who makes maps

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Expatriate

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Refugee

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Inadvertent

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Unintentional

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Sanguinary

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Bloodthirsty; bloody

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Tyro

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Novice; beginner

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Destitution

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Hardship; poverty; misery

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Overt

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Obvious; not hidden

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Sanguine

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Optimistic; cheerful

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Catharsis

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Purging of pent-up emotions

Machinations

Plots and plans

Overwrought

Worked up; in an emotional state

Preeminent

Famous; outstanding

Unalloyed

Undiluted; total; pure

Caucus

Type of private political meeting

Maelstrom

Whirlpool; storm in the ocean

Palatable

Good to eat; agreeable

Savant

Person with knowledge

Unctuous

Oily; using excessive flattery

Caustic

Burning

Incipient

Just beginning

Palisade

Fence made of posts

Cavalcade

Procession of vehicles

Extradite

Deport from one country back to the home country

Magnate

Powerful businessman

Palliative

A remedy that improves but doesn't cure