Reading List 6 Flashcards by Paige Min

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Adumbrate

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To sketch out in a vague way

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Abjure

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To reject, renounce

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Ascetic

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Practicing restraint as means of self-discipline, usually religious

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Brusque

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To support, hold up

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Clemency

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Mercy

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Conundrum

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A puzzle, problem

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Defile

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To make uncertain, impure

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Desecrate

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To violate the sacredness of a things or a place

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Dissemble

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To conceal or fake

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Egregious

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Extremely bad

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Evince

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To show or reveal

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Expunge

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To obliterate, eradicate

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Fatuous

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Silly, foolish, stupid

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Fractious

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Troublesome, irritable

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Hapless

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Unlucky, hopeless

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Ignominious

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Shameful, humiliating, disgraceful

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Impetuous

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Rash, hastily done

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Inconvertible

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Indisputable

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Inimical

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Hostile

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Invective

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An angry, verbal attack, diatribe

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Languid

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Sluggish from fatigue or weakness

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Limpid

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Clear, transparent, lucid

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Manifold

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Diverse, varied, multifarious

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Modicum

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A small amount of something

Nadir

The lowest point of something

Obfuscate

To render incomprehensible

Odious

Installing hatred or intense displeasure

Pallid

Lacking color

Pathos

An emotion of sympathy

Perfidious

Disloyal, unfaithful

Petulance

Rudeness, irritability

Portent

An omen

Proclivity

A strong inclination towards something

Proscribe

To condemn, outlaw, forbid

Pulchritude

Physical beauty

Rancor

Deep bitter resentment

Reprobate

Evil, unprincipled

Ribald

Coarsely and crudely humorous

Sagacity

Shrewdness, soundness of perspective

Serendipity

Luck, good fortune

Spurious

False but designed to seem plausible, dubious

Sumrise

To infer with little evidence

Tantamount

Equivalent in value or significance

Tractable

Easily controlled

Turgid

Swollen , excessively embellished in style or language

Undulate

To move in waves

Vapid

Lacking liveliness, dull

Vex

To confuse or annoy

Viscous

Not free flowing, syrupy