Lists 16-20 Flashcards

(51 cards)

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Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

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Insidious

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Seductive

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Inure

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To cause someone or something to become accustomed to a situation

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Invective

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Angry verbal attack

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Inveterate

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Stubbornly established by habit

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Juxtaposition

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The act of placing two things next to each other for implicit comparison

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Largess

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The generous giving of gifts

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Latent

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Hidden, but capable of being exposed

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Limpid

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Clear, transparent

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Maudlin

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Weakly sentimental

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Mawkish

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Characterized by sick sentimentality

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Mendacious

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Having a lying, false character

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Mercurial

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Characterized by rapid change

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Modicum

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Small amount of something

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Morass

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A wet, swampy bog; figuratively something that traps and confuses

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Multifarious

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Having a great diversity or variety

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Munificence

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Generosity in giving

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Myriad

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Consisting of a very great number

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Nadir

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The lowest point of something

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Nascent

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In the process of being born or coming into existence

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Nefarious

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Heinously villainous

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Neophyte

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Someone who is young or in experienced

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Obfuscate

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To render incomprehensible

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Oblique

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Not straightforward

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Obsequious
Excessively compliant or submissive
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Obstreperous
Noisy, unruly
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Obtuse
Lacking quickness of sensibility or intellect
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Odious
Instilling hatred
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Opulent
Characterized by rich abundance verging on ostentation
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Polemic
An aggressive argument against a specific opinion
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Portent
An omen
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Precocious
Advanced, developing ahead of time
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Prescient
To have foreknowledge of events
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Primeval
Original, ancient
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Probity
Virtue, integrity
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Proclivity
Strong inclination towards something
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Prosaic
Plain, lacking liveliness
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Quagmire
A difficult situation
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Recalcitrant
Defiant, unapologetic
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Rectitude
Uprightness, extreme morality
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Spurious
False but designed to seem plausible
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Tantamount
Equivalent in value or significance
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Temerity
Audacity, recklessness
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Tenuous
Having little substance or strength
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Timorous
Timid, fearful
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Vacillate
Fluctuate, hesitate
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Vacuous
Lack of content or ideas, stupid
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Vapid
Lacking liveliness, dull
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Vicarious
To experience through another
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Legerdemain
Deception, slight of hand
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Licentious
Displaying a lack of moral or legal restraints