Flashcards in List5 Deck (80)
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Impair
To make worse or less effective
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Compromise
To risk having a harmful effect on something (to harm)
To lower standards/morals
To accept that you will change your opinion on order to reach an agreement with someone
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Insipid
Lacking interest or significance or impact
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Provocative
Causing thought about interesting subject
Causing an angry reaction
Simulating (causing sexual desire)
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Immense
Extremely large in size or degree
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Vast
Extremely big
Eg: vast majority
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Serendipity
Finding something pleasant that you weren't even looking for
幸運
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prescient
Knowing or suggesting correctly what will happen in the future
Foresighted
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Fortuitous
(Of something that is to your advantage) not planned, happening by chance
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Long-standing
Having existed for a long time
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Lucrative
(Esp of a business, job or activity) producing a lot of money
Profitable
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Revival
復興
The process of becoming more active or popular again
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Kindred
Similar and related
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Commensurate
To be in proportion or corresponding in degree or amount
Proportionate
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Imperative
Extremely important or urgent
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Coalesce
If two or more things coalesce, they come or grow to form one thing or system
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Incense
To cause someone to be extremely angry
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Heterodox
(Of belief, ideas or activities) different to and opposing generally accepted beliefs
Iconoclastic
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Synthesise
To produce a substance
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Ubiquitous
Seeming to be everywhere
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Sporadic
Happening sometimes; not regular or continuous
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Scanty
Smaller in size or amount than is considered necessary or is hoped for
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Omnipresent
Present or having an effect everywhere at the same time
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Prolix
Usually too many words and therefore boring or difficult to read or listen to
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Long-winded
A long-winded speech, article etc is too long or uses too many words
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Ameliorate
To make a bad situation better
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Obsolete
Not in use any more, having been replaced by something newer
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Disparate
Different in every way
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Divergent
Different from each other
Disparate
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