Nov 8th Flashcards

(45 cards)

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Quantifiable

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Able to be expressed as an amount, quantity or numerical value

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zealous

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Marked by fervent partisanship for a person, a cause, or an ideal: filled with zeal

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Beguile

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  1. HOODWINK

2. To engage the interest of or as if by guile

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Forestall

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  1. To exclude, hinder or prevent by prior occupation or measure
  2. To get ahead of something: ANTICIPATE
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Baffle

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To defeat by confusing

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Insouciance

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Nonchalance

Relaxed and calm as if not worried about anything or do not care about anything

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Stoicism

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Indifference to pleasure or pain

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Nullify

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To make null

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Accentuate

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To make something more prominent or noticeable

ACCENT, EMPHASIZE

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Knotty

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Marked by or fully of knots

COMPLICATED

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Mundane

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Full and ordinary

Relating to ordinary life

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Vapid

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Lacking favor, zest, interests

FLAT, DULL

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Sagacious

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Of keen and farsighted penetration and judgements: DISCERNING

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Distressing

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To cause great strain or difficulties

To cause to worry or be troubled

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Detrimental

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Causing damage or injury

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Quixotic

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  1. Foolishly impractical

2. CAPRICIOUS, UNPREDICTABLE

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precarious

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Not safe, strong, or steady

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Rapacious

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  1. Excessively grasping or covetous
  2. Living on prey
  3. RAVENOUS
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Covetous

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Marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possession

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Rudimentary

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  1. Consisting in first principles FUNDAMENTAL
  2. Of a primitive kind
  3. Very imperfectly developed or represented only by a vestige
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Vestige

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A trace, mark, or visible sign left by something vanished or lost

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Perfunctory

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  1. Characterized by routine or superficiality

2. Lacking in interests or enthusiasm

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Futility

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Degeneracy

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  1. Sexual perversion

2. Having low moral standards

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Authoritarian
Expecting or requiring people to obey rules or laws: not allowing personal freedom
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Histrionic
1. Deliberately affected: overly dramatic or emotional | 2. Relating to actors, theaters, or acting
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Megalomania
A condition or mental illness that causes people to think they have great or unlimited power or importance
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Indolent
1. Averse to activity, effort, or movement: habitually lazy 2. Conducive to or encouraging laziness 3. Causing little or no pain 4. Slow to develop or heal
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Imperturbable
Marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness: SERENE
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Volatile
1. Likely to change in a very sudden and extreme way | 2. Likely to become dangerous or out of control
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Duplicitous
Marked by duplicity: deceptive in words or action
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Blithe
1. Lacking due thought or consideration: CASUAL, HEEDLESS | 2. Of a happy lighthearted character or disposition
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Tangible
1. Easily seen or recognized | 2. Able to be touched or felt
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Palpable
1. Capable of being touched or felt TANGIBLE 2. NOTICEABLE 3. Easily perceptible by the mind: MANIFEST
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Nebulous
INDISTINCT, VAGUE
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Nettlesome
Causing vexation, IRRITATING
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Incontrovertible
Not open to question: INDISPUTABLE
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Mainstay
A chief support
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Pertinent
Relating to the thing being discussed or thoughts about | RELEVANT
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Disperse
To go or move in different directions
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Feckless
Having or resulting from a weak character or nature
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Munificent
Very liberal in giving or bestowing
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Taciturn
Temperamentally disinclined to talk
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Arithmetic
COMPUTATION, CALCULATION
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Paragon
Something perfect or excellent therefore should be a model or example to be copied