List 5 Flashcards by Hannah Panda

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Pallid

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Pale

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Maladroit

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Clumsy; unskilled

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Censorious

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Disapproving; critical

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Unfetter

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Set free; unrestrained

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Annex

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A building that is in addition to an existing building

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Censure

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Blame

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Didactic

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Intended to teach; instructive

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Extrinsic

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Irrelevant; coming from the outside; not part of the essential nature of something

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Panacea

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Remedy for all ills

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Prevaricate

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Speak misleadingly and evasively

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Scuttle

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Sink; deliberately cause to fail

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Unfrock

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To remove a priest from his position

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Diffident

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Lacking confidence

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Indelible

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Cannot be wiped out

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Malinger

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Feign illness to deliberately avoid work

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Proclivity

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Tendency towards

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Charlatan

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Trickster who claims knowledge he doesn’t have

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Dike

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Dam; embankment

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Fanatical

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Obsessive; fixated

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Sentinel

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Guard; sentry

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Unwitting

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Not deliberate; unconscious

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Chary

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Wary of; cautious or reluctant to do

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Dilatory

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Slow; falling behind with one’s work

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Fanaticism

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Passion; excessive devotion

Prodigal

Wasteful; extravagant

Sequester

Isolate

Antediluvian

Outdated; old-fashioned

Fastidious

Overly particular; finicky; hard to please

Indolence

Laziness

Uproarious

Hilarious

Chicanery

Trickery

Fatuous

Silly; foolish

Profane

Unholy

Upshot

Outcome

Anthropocentrism

Putting man at the center of one's philosophy

Chimerical

Unreal; imaginary; highly unrealistic

Pariah

Outcast from society

Serrated

Jagged; saw-like

Urbane

Sophisticated; suave