List A Flashcards
(45 cards)
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Allusion
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Reference
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Abstruse
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Hard to understand
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Animosity
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Hostility
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Buoyancy
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Lightness
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Castigated
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To criticize
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Chicanery
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Trickery
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Debilitated
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Weaken
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Demagogue
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Political leader
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Dilapidated
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Run down
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Discreet
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Careful
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Disheartened
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Disappointed
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Expurgate
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Remove
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Galling
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Annoying
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Gerrymandering
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Dividing of a state
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Hackneyed
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Commonplace
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Impermeable
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Impassable
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Paradigm
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Model
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Placid
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Calm
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Plasticity
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Flexibility
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Pounce
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Strike
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Recalcitrant
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Disobedient
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Redundancy
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Repeating
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Synthesis
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Combine compose
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Unorthodox
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Unconventional
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Wrongheaded
Wrong in judgement
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Confound
Confuse
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Decry
To condemn openly
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Dirge
A funeral hymn
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Diminutive
Small
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Economical
Thrifty
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Flooding
Overflowing
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Fluctuation
Changing
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Halcyon
Happy
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Invoke
To request
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Oracular
Obscure ; prophetic
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Palpitation
Trembling/ shaking
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Prattle
Babble
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Prudent
Careful
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Quiescent
Being quiet, still, or at rest
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Raconteur
Story teller
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Renegade
Traitor
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Respite
Recess
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Sanctuary
Shelter
43
Synthetic
Artificial
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Truculent
Aggressive