Flashcards in List11 Deck (88)
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Overture
Something introductory, prelude
Proposal
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Bleak
Not warm, friendly, cheerful
Not hopeful or encouraging
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Generic
General
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Gravity
a serious situation or problem
The condition of being grave or serious
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Diverting
Providing amusement or entertainment
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Propitious
Favourable
Likely to have or produce good result
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Brute
Very strong and forceful
Very harsh
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Flout
to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn
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Culpable
Blameworthy
Guilty
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Fret
To agitate
To cause to suffer emotional strain
To become worried
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Stagnate
To stop developing, moving etc
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Arduous
Very difficult.
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Outlandish
Very strange or unusual
Foreign
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Frenzy
A temporary madness
intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity
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Intrinsic
belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing
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Sway
to cause (someone) to agree with you or to share your opinion
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Refute
to prove wrong
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Disregard
: to ignore (something) or treat (something) as unimportant
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Idle
lacking worth or basis
not occupied or employed
Lazy
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Rehash
to talk over or discuss again
to present or use again in another form without substantial change or improvement
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Transcend
To overcome
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Manage
to have control of
to take care of and make decisions about
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Empirical
based on testing or experience
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Obscure
not well-known : not known to most people
Difficult to understand
difficult or impossible to know completely and with certainty
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Resonate
To have particular meaning or importance to
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Subvert
to make (something) weaker or less effective
to overturn or overthrow from the foundation : ruin
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Induce
to cause (someone or something) to do something
to cause (something) to happen or exist
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Ascribe
to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author
Accredit, attribute
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Fare
To cope, to get along
To do something well or badly
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