Reading 8 Vocab List 11 Flashcards

(48 cards)

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Ambivalent

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Uncertain and unable to decide

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Aromatic

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Having a strong pleasant odor

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Belligerent

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Engaged in war, someone willing or involved in a fight

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Charge

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To entrust someone with a task, request for payment, run towards, description of wrong doing

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Concomitant

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An event that is connected to another, something in the result of another thing

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Counterbalance

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Equality in force, to contradict something with equal force

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Deft

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Skillful in movement, especially with hands

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Dilapidated

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Run down and deplorable in condition

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Dogmatic

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To be sure that you are right and not accept other opinions

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Endeavor

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Truthful no earnest activity to gain success, to work hard and honestly

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Exceptional

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Beyond expected degree

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Fastidious

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Excessively concerned with details

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Fraudulent

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Fake, intended to deceive

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Humanitarian

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Respecting humanistic values, devotion to the welfare of humans

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Inchoate

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Only partly in existent, not fully formed

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Lightheartedness

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Cheerful and void of worry

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Meteoric

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Exceptionally fast, phenomenon

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Mollify

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To make softer, to calm and make lenient

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Nadir

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Extreme devastation, lowest point

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Novelty

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New and refreshing, cheap an pd showy

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Onerous

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Oppressive, troublesome, causing hardship

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Outstrip

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To break free of limits, to stretch farther

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Partisanship

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Inclined to keep one view and ignore all other alternatives

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Perilous

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Fraught with danger

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Philanthropist
Someone who makes donations for human well being
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Polemical
Displaying controversy
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Preoccupation
The mental state of being occupied with something, something that takes your attention
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Prognosis
A prediction of the four of a disease | Ex. The stages of lung cancer
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Protege
A person who receives support no protection from an influential patron
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Querulous
Habitually complaining
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Recount
Extra count, to count again
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Renounce
Cast off, or de-own, turn away from give up
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Restive
Being in a tense state
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Robust
Rough and crude, physically or intellectually strong, rich and full in flavor
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seclusion
Excluding yourself from others, being unnoticed by others
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Shortcoming
A fail or deficiency
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Sophistication
Misleading, being sophisticated without worldly knowledge
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Stipulate
To make an oral agreement, specify as a requirement in a contract
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Sundry
Various or diverse
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Tantalize
Teas or harass
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Transient
Short change, mental act
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Umbrage
Anger from being offended
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Undertake
Promise to accomplish, accept as a challenge
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Unsubstantiated
Not supported by anything else
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Veracity
Unwillingness to tell lies
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Vivid
Clarity
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Wizened
Aged, wrinkled
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Acrimony
Bitter and rough manner