Second 20 Words Flashcards by Gabriel Cabrera

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Aesthetic

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Artistic; related to a sense of beauty

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Adulation

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Excessive admiration, worship, or flattery

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Affectation

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Fake behavior, a pretense to impress others

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Alacrity

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Cheerful readiness, eagerness

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Allege

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To assign wrongdoing yet to be proven; accuse

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Altercation

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Ana angry dispute; a quarrel

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Altruism

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Selfless giving , generosity

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Ameliorate

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To ease a situation, to bring relief

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Amenable

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Going along with the edges of another, agreeable

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Amenity

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Nicely ; attractive feature

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Amnesty

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Official pardon for those who have the broken law

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Amorous

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Strongly moved by love (often sexual love)

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Amorphous

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Lacking a distinct shape

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Anecdote

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A short, entertaining story often about a real incident or person

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Antebellum

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Before the war

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Antecedent

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Coming before in time; preceding

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Antipathy

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Definitive dislike, repulsion, aversion

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Apartheid

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Racial separation and injustice

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Apostate

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One who deserts his faith or his principals

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Appellate

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Having power to review and reverse (A court power)