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Rhymes Flashcards

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Calumnious

A

Slandering or telling les about someone

CALUMNIOUS people say scandalous things

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Cadge

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To barrow without intent to repay

To beg

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Cantankerous

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Cantankerous people are really cranky!

Disagreeable to deal with, continuous

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Capacious

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Capacious means spacious

Not to be confused with capricious: a flip flop per

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Capitulate

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If you’re u capitulate your pitching in the towels and giving up.

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Clandestine

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Is sneaky and hidden

The KKK klan members are clandestine.

You might have clandestine meetings.

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Abase

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Baseball players are abase when they can’t steal a base.

To reduce in reputation or esteem…take down.

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Abrogate

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Abrogate is to eliminate

To officials abolish

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Ascetic

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An ascetic person does not have many financial assets, no indulgence.

To abstain for religious reasons

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Decorous

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Sailors should be decorous when in uniform and on deck.

To be proper, follow rules

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Derision

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John Stewart mocks celebrities with derision. Ridiculing and mocking

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Disconsolate

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It means you can not be consoled.

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Divisive

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— people divid people. They creat discord

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Efface

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— means to erase

To wipe out, do away with

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Eminent

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Emenme is an eminent in rap.

A prominent figure.

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Erudite

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an ___ is bright

having or showing great knowledge or learning

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Espouse

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It is a good idea to _____ your spouse

support

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Facetious

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joking, humor

treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant

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Fallacious

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misleading and telling lies

based on a mistaken belief

20
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Feckless

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Being ____ is pretty reckless

irresponsible

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Fictitious

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not real or true, being imaginary or having been fabricated

its like a fictional book

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Garrulous

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It means that your chatty because

Gary had to yak

23
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Gregarious

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If a person is friendly and outgoing they are _____

24
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Heathen

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A _____ person is probably not going to heaven

a person who does not belong to a widely held religion

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Humdrum

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ho hum this is so humdrum

dull and boring

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Iconoclast

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think icon CLASH

they clash with others and go against the grain

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Immaterial

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the newspaper was so desperate for material they printed immaterial

unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant.

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Indolent

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When i feel indolent, i stare out the window like a cat

wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy

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Insipid

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Do NOT sip on insipid drinks is a waste of calories

bland, lacking flavor

30
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Insolent

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insolent are insulting

showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect

31
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inveterate

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in the south its inveterate to be confederate

something ingrain in who you are

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Jocular

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if your jocular, your a joker

fond of or characterized by joking

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Languid

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languid just means sluggish

displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort;

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libertine

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its when people are free from restrictions and tend to do as they please there said to be libertine

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lionize

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We lionize Angeling and her lion eyes.

give a lot of public attention and approval to (someone); treat as a celebrity

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lugubrious

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lugubrious people are always lugging their problems around.

looking or sounding sad and dismal

37
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Malapropisms

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malapropism are improper speech

he mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, “dance a flamingo ” (instead of flamenco ).

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Mawkish

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Romeo was mocked for being mawkish.

He was just to sentimental

39
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Miasma

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Miasma really mess with your asthma

it means toxic or polluted

40
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munificent

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its magnificent to be munificent

because your generous and giving

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nefarious

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if he is nefarious, he is never fair to us

because be is evil and villainous

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