List6 Flashcards

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Futile

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Useless, having no effect

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Pressing

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Urgent or needing to be dealt with immediately

Critical

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Ephemeral

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Lasting for only a short time

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Orthodox

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Traditional

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Definitive

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Not able to change

Considered to be the best of its type

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Peripheral

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Situated on the edge

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Relegate

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To put someone or something into a lower rank or position

To lower

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Perspicacity

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Shrewdness

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Panoramic

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Wide, wide-ranging

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Retrograde

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Directed or moving backwards

Downhill, regressive

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Winding

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A twisting movement, spirals

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Avarice

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Extreme greed

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Mendacity

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Untruthfulness, dishonesty

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Complicity

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The fact or condition that is unlawful or morally wrong

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Conspiracy

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A secret plan to do something unlawful or harmful

Scheme

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Temperate

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Showing self-restrain

Mild

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Ascetic

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Austere, abstinent, non-indulgent

Like a monk

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Duplicitous

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Deceitful

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Scrupulous

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Diligent, meticulous

Honest,honourable

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Incoherent

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Unclear,confused

Not logically consistent

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Cogent

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Clear, logical, convincing

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Scintillating

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Brilliantly and excitingly clever or skilful

Shining brightly

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Sumptuous

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Lavish, luxurious

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Tawdry

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Flashy, showy but cheap quality

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Provident
Making timely preparation for the future, far-sighted, judicious
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Indolence
Laziness
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Ineptitude
Lack of skill, ability Incompetence
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Recreation
Leisure, enjoyment
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Synergistic
Cooperating
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Calcify
To harden
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Digress
To deviate, diverge
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Incubate
To maintain a favourable temperature To give form to
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impassioned
Emotional, filled with great emotion
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Plastic
Malleable, mouldable, easily shaped Not sincere
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Pervasive
Spreading widely throughout an area, extensive, ubiquitous
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Specious
Misleading, plausible but wrong, deceptive
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Spurious
Fake, specious
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Eclectic
Including things taken from many different sources
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Subtle
不明顯的 敏銳的
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adornment
Ornament
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Tenuous
Very weak Very thin
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Tout
To attract, bring in (customers)
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Competing
Contradictory to each other To be rival others
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Polemical
severely supporting or criticising To reject, or attack
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Observe
To conform ones action or practice to 遵守 To make a remark 評論
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Evocative
Being strong images, memories, or feelings to mind
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Bristle at
Angry at,
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Winnow
To remove from a group until the best ones are left | 篩選
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vitiate
To impair, diminish
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Incisive
(Person) acute; intelligently analytical (Action) quick and direct
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By virtue of
Because of
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A priori
想當然的 Deductive,
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Invective
Highly critical language
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Tenacity
Persistence, determination
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Affect
To pretend
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Alarmist
Someone who exaggerates a danger, causing needless worry or panic
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Dismiss something as
Consider something as ... so that they don't take it seriously
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ill at ease
Uncomfortable, embarrassed
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Disparage
Belittle
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Ancillary
Secondary 附加的
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Integral
Essential, fundamental
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Languid
Relaxed Weak or faint from illness
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Underscore
To emphasise or show importance of
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Amorphous
Having no definite or clear shape or form
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Envision
To think of something you believe might exist or happen in the future To picture something in your mind
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Not least
Particular, especially
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Threshold
The point at which something begins or changes
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Indispensable
Extremely important and necessary
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Virtually
Nearly
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Pan
To criticise severely
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Balloon
To become bigger quickly To increase rapidly
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Document
To prove by using written evidence
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Intimate
To say or suggest subtly
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Skirt
To avoid
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Weigh
To think carefully about something in order to form opinion or make decision 衡量
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mint
Unmarried as if fresh from a mint 嶄新的 A vast sum or amount
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Comprehend
To contain or hold (significant or amount)
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Untenable
Not able to be defended Not able to be occupied
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Emend
To correct usually by textual alterations
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Axiomatic
Obviously true 不證自明
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opportunistic
Takin advantage of opportunities as they arise
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Haphazard
Lack of plan, order or direction
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Anomalous
Irregular, unusual Paradoxical, uncertain
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Monolithic
Huge, massive Constituting a massive undifferentiated and often rigid whole
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Stigma
A set of negative and unfair beliefs
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Fractious
Troublesome Irritable