Reading 8 List 12 Flashcards

(37 cards)

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Amorphous

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Having no definite or distinctive shape

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Arrest

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Hold back, take into custody, to interrupt

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Benefactor

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A person who helps institutions or people with financial issues

AIG INSURANCE COMPANY

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4
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Charlatan

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A flamboyant deceiver, someone who attracts using tricks

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Concur

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To be in agreement, happen simultaneously

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Dilatory

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Wasting time, stalling

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Dole

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Charitably given money or food

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Endorse

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Approve of, give support or approval

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Exculpate

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Free from blame, not guilty

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10
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Fatalistic

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Fatal

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Fundamental

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Relating to basic facts

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12
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Hybrid

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Produced by cross breeding

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13
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Iniquity

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Immoral perverse behavior

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Irascible

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Easily angered, having a quick temper

DEREK ANGER ISSUES

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Limpid

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Clear, bright, easily understandable, transparent

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Meticulous

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Paying close attention to details

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Monumental

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Bulk and solidity

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Naive

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Inexperienced

NOOB

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Obdurate

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Stubborn, doesn’t care about feelings but wrong doing

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Passivity

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Phlegmatic

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Showing little emotion

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Prescient

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Perceiving significance of events before they occur

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Quixotic

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Rectitude

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Righteousness

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Resuscitate
Cause to regain conciousness
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Sector
Divide, portion
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Shrewd
Hardheaded intellegence
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Spartan
Like Spartans
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Stolid
Revealing little emotion or sensitivity
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Tantamount
Being essentially equal to something
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Transitory
Lasting a very short time
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Unabashedly
Not embarrassed
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Undulate
Stir up, ripple, disturb
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Verbose
Using or containing too many words | WORDY ESSAYS
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Volatile
Flexible, easily adapts
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Wrongheaded
Foolish, unwise
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Acumen
The ability to make good judgements