Flashcards in List10 Deck (83)
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Inert
Unable to move
Moving or acting very slowly
Sluggish
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Circumvent
To avoid being stopped by
To get around in a clever and sometimes dishonest way
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Heartfelt
deeply felt, very sincere
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Voluble
Easily rolling or turning
Glib, fluent
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Acquiescent
Tending to accept or allow what other people want or demand
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Induce
To move by persuasion or influence
To cause the formation of
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Somnolent
Drowsy, sleepy
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Befuddle
To confuse
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Hidebound
Not willing to accept new or different ideas
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Embolden
To make someone more confirent
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Derision
The use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt
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Lambaste
To attack verbally
To assault violently
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Stale
Not clean, clear or pure
Boring or unoriginal; banal; 陳腐
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Gradient
The rate of regular or graded upward or downward
Change in the value of a quantity
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Entail
To restrict by limiting
To assign, transmit for an indefinitely long time
To impose, involve or imply as a necessary result
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Antecedent
Something that came before something else
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Shackle
To prevent free action
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Admonish
To speak to in a way that expresses disapproval or criticism
To tell to do something
To give friendly advice or encouragement to
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Stifle
To stop from doing or expressing something
To not allow to do or express
To make difficult or impossible
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sparse
Thinly covering an area, less than necessary or normal
Present only in small amounts
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Bar
To prevent
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Disseminate
To spread
To cause to go to many people
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Recant
To renounce, to withdraw formally and publicly
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Repudiate
To refuse to accept
To say or show that is not true
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Teem
To be full of something
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encomium
Glowing and warmly enthusiastic pause
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Tribute
Something that you say, give or do to show respect, gratitude or affection
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Intrinsic
Belonging o the essential nature of a thing: occurring as a natural part of something
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aver
To say in a very strong and definite way
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