PR Cracking Vocab Flashcards
(151 cards)
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Effusive
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showing excessive emotion; overflowing
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Extrapolate
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to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information
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Insinuate
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to imply or communicate stealthily
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Lucid
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easily understood; clear
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Ascertain
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to find out, as through investigation or experimentation
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Circumspect
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careful; prudent; discreet
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Pedantic
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excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules
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Perspicacious
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shrewd; clear-sighted
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Precocious
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exhibiting unusually early intellectual aptitude or maturity
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Prospectus
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formal proposal
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Callous
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emotionally hardened; unfeeling
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Disaffected
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having lost faith or loyalty; discontent
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Enigma
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a puzzle, mystery, or riddle
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Inscrutable
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difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable
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Staid
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unemotional; serious
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Arcane
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known or understood by only a few
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Assimilate
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to absorb or become absorbed; to make or become similar
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Esoteric
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intended for or understood by only a small group
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Insular
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isolated; narrow or provincial
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Orthodox
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adhering to the traditional and established, especially
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Castigate
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to scold, rebuke, or harshly criticize
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Censure
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to issue official blame
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Relinquish
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to retire from; give up or abandon
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Vituperative
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marked by harshly abusive condemnation
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Circumscribe
to draw a circle around; to restrict
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Contiguous
sharing an edge or boundary; touching
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Conciliatory
appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile
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Exonerate
to free from blame
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Indict
to officially charge with wrongdoing or a crime
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Litigious
prone to engage in lawsuits
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Parity
equality, as in amount, status, or value
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Rectitude
moral uprightness; righteousness
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Remiss
lax (not strict; careless and slow) in attending to duty; negligent
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Repudiate
to reject as having no authority or validity
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Veracity
adherence to the truth; truthfulness
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Cajole
to urge with repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery
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Chicanery
trickery
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Obsequious
fawning and servile
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Sycophant
insincere, obsequious flatterer
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Extol
to praise highly
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Eminent
distinguished; prominent
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Laudatory
full of praise
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Philanthropic
humanitarian; benevolent; relating to monetary generosity
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Reciprocate
to mutually take or give; to respond in kind
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Defunct
no longer existing or functioning
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Quell
to put down forcibly; suppress
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Raze
to level to the ground; demolish
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Squelch
to crush as if by trampling; squash
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Stymie
to thwart or stump
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Derogatory
insulting or intended to insult
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Effrontery
brazen boldness; presumptuousness
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Ignominy
great personal dishonor humiliation; disgraceful conduct
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Mar
to damage, especially in a disfiguring way
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Pejorative
disparaging, belittling, insulting
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Vex
to annoy or bother; to perplex
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Vindictive
disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful
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Ebullience
intense enthusiasm
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Exuberant
full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy
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Embellish
to ornament or decorate; to exaggerate
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Flagrant
extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
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Gratuitous
given freely; unearned; unnecessary
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Lavish
extravagant
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Lugubrious
mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree
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Opulent
displaying great wealth
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Ornate
elaborately decorated
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Ubiquitous
being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent
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Vicarious
felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
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Amalgam
a combination of diverse elements; a mixture
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Inundate
to overwhelm as if with a flood; to swamp
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Multifarious
diverse; various
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Multiplicity
state of being various or manifold; a great number
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Cathartic
relaxing after an emotional outburst
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Curative
able to heal or cure
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Complement
something that completes, goes with, or brings to perfection
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Felicitous
admirably suited; apt
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Duplicitous
deliberately deceptive
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Mendacious
lying; untruthful
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Specious
having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false
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Apathetic
feeling or showing little emotion
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Erratic
markedly inconsistent
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Impetuous
suddenly and forcefully energetic or emotional; impulsive and passionate
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Impetus
an impelling force or stimulus
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Sporadic
occurring at irregular intervals; having no pattern or order in time
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Vacillate
to sway from one side to the other; oscillate
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Flag
to decline in vigor or strength; to tire; to droop
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Jaded
worn out; wearied
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Subterfuge
a deceptive stratagram or device
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Deceptive
giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading
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Surreptitious
secretive; sneaky
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Modicum
a small, moderate, or token amount
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Paucity
smallness in number; sarcity
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Tenuous
having little substance or strength; shaky
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Maverick
one who is independent and resists adherence to a group
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Profliferate
to grow or increase rapidly
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Tenacity
persistence
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Vigilant
on the alert; watchful
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Juxtapose
to place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast
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Synergy
combined action or operation
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Tangential
merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant
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Dirge
a funeral hymn or lament
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Debacle
disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure; fiasco
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Tumultuous
noisy and disorderly
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Archaic
characteristic of an earlier time; antiquated; old
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Temporal
of, relating to, or limited by time
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Portent
indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; omen
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Prescience
knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foreknowledge; foresight
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Insipid
uninteresting; unchallenging; lacking taste or savor
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Prosaic
unimaginative; dull
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Soporific
inducting or tending to induce sleep
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Vapid
lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull
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Expedient
appropriate to a purpose; convenient; speedy
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Transient
passing quickly, in time or space
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Distend
to swell out or expand from internal pressure, as when overly full
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Grandiose
great in slope or intent; grand
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Profundity
great depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning
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Redouble
to make twice as great; to double
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Scintillating
brilliant
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Averse
strongly disinclined
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Conspicuous
easy to notice; obvious
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Diffidence
timidity or shyness
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Docile
submissive to instruction; willing to be taught
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Concord
agreement
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Concur
to agree
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Fastidious
carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
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Intransigence
refusal to moderate a position or to compromise
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Meticulous
extremely careful and precise
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Sanguine
cheerfully confident; optimistic
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Belligerent
eager to fight; hostile or aggressive
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Contentious
quarrelsome
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Flippant
disrespectfully humorous or casual
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Insolent
insulting in manner or speech
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Nefarious
flagrantly wicked; vicious
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Pernicious
extremely or irrevocably harmful; deadly
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Rancorous
marked by bitter, deep-seated ill-will
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Repugnant
arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive
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Supercilious
disdainful; haughty; arrogant
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Arboreal
relating to or resembling a tree or trees
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Invocation
a call (usually upon a higher power) for assistance, support, or inspiration
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Stratify
to layer or separate into layers
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Variegated
having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored
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Verdant
green with vegetation
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Concur
to agree
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Discredit
to injure the credit or reputation of; defame
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Discern
to recognize; distinguish
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Disinterested
1. unbiased by personal interest or advantage; not influenced by selfish motives
2. not interested; indifferent.
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Dispassionate
free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm
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Speculate
to engage in thought or reflection; meditate
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Subjective
existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought
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Solemn
1. grave, sober
| 2. serious, earnest
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Unabashed
not embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed
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Perilous
involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous
