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Section2 Flashcards

1
Q

Stubborn

A 
implacable
inexorable
intractable
intransigent
obdurate
obstinate
recalcitrant
refractory
renitent
untoward
vexing
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Beginning/Young

A 
burgeoning
callow
engender
inchoate
incipient
nascent
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3
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Generous/Kind

A 
altruistic
beneficent
clement
largess
magnanimous
munificent
philanthropic
unstinting
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Greedy

A 
avaricious
covetous
mercenary
miserly
penurious (penury)
rapacious
venal
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Terse

A 
compendious
curt
laconic
pithy
succinct
taciturn
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Q

Overblown/Wordy

A 
bombastic
circumlocution
garrulous
grandiloquent
loquacious
periphrastic
prolix
rhetoric
turgid
verbose
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Dictatorial

A 
authoritarian
dogmatic
despotic
hegemonic (hegemony)
imperious
peremptory
tyrannical
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Hatred

A 
abhorrence
antagonism
anathema
antipathy
detestation
enmity
loathing
malice
odium
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Beginner/Amateur

A 
dilettante
fledgling
neophyte
novitiate
proselyte
tyro
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Lazy/Sluggish

A 
indolent
inert
lackadaisical
languid
lassitude
lethargic
phlegmatic
quiescent
slothful
torpid
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Pacify/Satisfy

A 
ameliorate
appease
assuage
defer
mitigate
mollify
placate
propitiate
satiate
slake
soothe
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Forgive

A 
absolve
acquit
exculpate
exonerate
expiate
palliate
redress
vindicate
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Poor

A

destitute
esurient
indigent
impecunious

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Q

Favoring/Not Impartial

A 
ardor/ardent
doctrinaire
fervid
partisan
tendentious
zealot
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Denying of Self

A 
abnegate
abstain
ascetic
spartan
stoic
temparate
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Walking About

A

ambulatory
itinerant
peripatetic

17
Q

Insincere

A 
disingenuous
dissemble
fulsome
ostensible
unctuous
18
Q

Prevent/Obstruct

A 
discomfit
encumber
fetter
forfend
hinder
impede
inhibit
occlude
19
Q

Eccentric/Dissimilar

A 
aberrant
anachronism
anomalous
discrete
eclectic
esoteric
iconoclast
20
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Funny

A 
chortle
droll
facetious
flippant
gibe
jocular
levity
ludicrous
raillery
riposte
simper

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