More Words July 21 Flashcards

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Quixotic

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Impractical, impulsive and often rashly unpredictable

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Resembling

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Similar to, to be alike

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Myriad

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Numerous

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Somber

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Gloomy

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Salient

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Prominent, conspicuous

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Salubrious

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Healthful

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Pretentious

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Ostentatious

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Militate

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To have substantial effect

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Contention

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Strife in debate

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Contemporary

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Existing, occurring, living at the same time

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Absolve

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Pardon

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Bewilder

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Confound, puzzle, perplex, mystify

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Petulant

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Irritable, peevish, fretful, petting, touchy

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Tempestuous

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Violent, stormy.

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Placid

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Pleasantly calm, peaceful

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Mercurial

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Erratic, changeable

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Pliant

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Flexible, bending

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Frenetic

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Desperate or wild with excitement, passion

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Instigate

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Foment. To cause by incitement, to urge, provoke

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Arrogate

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To claim unwarrantable or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right. To attribute or assign to another, ascribe

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Ascribe

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Eschew

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To Avoid, abstain

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Inter

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Imbue

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Inspire, impregnate

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Decipher
To discover the meaning
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Exorbitant
Exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety or reason
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Fathom
Understand
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Apogee
Highest point
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Epiphany
An appearance or manifestation
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Impasse
A position or situation from which there is no escape
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Capitulate
To surrnd
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Regress
To go back
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Impugn
To challenge as false
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Acrimony
Sharpness, harshness or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition
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Sinecure
An position requiring little or no work, but yield profitable return
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Elusive
Hard to express
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Ornate
Elaborately, sumptuously adorn
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Translucent
Transparent
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Diminutive
Small
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Dilapidated
Decayed, ruined, battered
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Orator
Public speaker
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Miscreant
A vicious or depraved person. Villain
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Interloper
A person who interferes or muddies in the affairs of others
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Despair
Lose hope
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Duress
Compulsion by threat; coercion
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Ebullience
High spirit, exhilaration , exuberance
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Flounder
Struggle, stumble