List 6 Flashcards
(38 cards)
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Fecund
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Fertile
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Choleric
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Easily angered
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Parity
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Equality
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Dirge
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Mournful song
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Felicitous
A
Apt
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Parochial
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Narrow-minded; concerned only with local matters
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Utilitarian
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Useful
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Circuitous
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Indirect
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Disapprobation
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Disapproval
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Martinet
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Person who believes in strict discipline
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Proletarian
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Member of the working class
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Apocryphal
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Of doubtful origin
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Circumlocution
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Using too many words; long-windedness
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Parry
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Ward off; avoid
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Prolific
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Producing a lot
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Vacillate
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Waver; hesitate
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Circumscribe
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Limit
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Finesse
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Skill
18
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Parsimonious
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Economical; frugal; thrifty
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Vacuous
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Empty; silly; meaningless
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Circumspect
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Cautious; considering all sides
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Fitful
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Not continuous; stopping and starting
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Inexorable
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Relentless
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Maverick
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A loner
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Parsimony
Stinginess; frugality
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Prosaic
Dull; boring; ordinary
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Esoteric
Understood by a small number of people with a specialized knowledge
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Vagrant
Person wandering without a home
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Flagrant
Clearly wrong
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Proscribe
Forbid
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Vapid
Dull; uninteresting
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Clairvoyant
Psychic; mystic
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Prosody
Study of versification
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Arcane
Obscure; known only to a few people
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Discursiveness
Log windedness; indirectness
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Prostration
1. Lying face down
| 2. Be overcome with extreme weakness
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Menagerie
Collection of animals
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Soothsayer
Fortune teller
