Ones I Never Get Flashcards

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Insipid

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Lacking vitality

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Banal

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Dull because of overstate of use ; hackneyed; trite

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Lackluster

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Lacking vitality

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Platitude

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Quality of being dull

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Trite

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Unoriginal and stale

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Mediate

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Act as a go between settling disputes

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Mitigate

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To make or become less severe

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Placate

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To make calm; to soothe

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Captious

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Made for the sake of quarrelling

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome; belligerent

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Prodigal

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Wasteful and lavish

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Profligate

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Wasteful and reckless w/spending money

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Parsimonious

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Overly frugal or miserly

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Penurious

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Stingy

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Precarious

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Dangerous or risky

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Quandary

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A dilemma

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Baneful

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Causing ruin

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Iniquitous

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Showing a lack of fairness

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Pernicious

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Very destructive

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Carp

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To find fault

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Upbraid

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To chide

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Nonchalant

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Casual and indifferent

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Phlegmatic

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Hard to get excited or emotional

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Soporific

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Sleepy

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Torpid
Lacking energy
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Hidebound
Strongly opinionated
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Recalcitrant
Stubborn
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Vociferous
Loud and noisy regarding one's own voice
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Panegyrise
To praise someone or event in a formal speech or in writing
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Revere
To regard highly with love and respect
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Venerate
To feel or show deep respect for, especially due to age or tradition: to honor
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Profuse
Abundant; more than enough
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Exacting
Requiring a great deal of care or effort
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Nomadic
Wandering
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Antediluvian
Very, very old
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Ascetic
A person who refrains from indulging in earthly pleasures
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Charlatari
A fraud
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Pariah
A social outcast
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Extraneous
Not essential
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Incidental
Less important
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Coalesce
To have different opinions join together
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Convalesce
To recover from an illness
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Impudent
Rude
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Indigent
Poor
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Ponderous
Very heavy or bulky
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Fastidious
Meticulous
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Querulous
Whining
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Vilify
To slander or defame someone's reputation
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Lithe
Nimble and flexible
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Pitfall
An unseen danger
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Raze
To tear down
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Replete
Filled-up
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Respite
Period of inactivity
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Spurious
False
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Aplomb
Social poise
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Axiom
A true or wise saying
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Compunction
Feeling of remorse for doing something wrong
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Diffident
Lacking confidence in oneself
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Dilettante
One who dabbles in the arts and sciences but is an expert in neither
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Insurgent
A rebel
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Mimetic
Pertaining to imitation or mimicry
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Palpable
Able to be touched or felt
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Portentous
Very meaning with regard to events to come
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Vignette
A brief descriptive passage in writing
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Anthology
A collection of short stories and/or poems