Flashcards in Sentence Equivalent Deck (38)
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Decorous
- proper or appropriate behavior
- poised
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Inveterate
Settled in habit, practice or feeling
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Timorous
Fearful or timid
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Cower
- to frighten with violence and threats
- intimidate
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Turgid
Inflated or bombastic
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Oscillation
Fluctuation
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Repatriate
To send back to one's country
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Extradite
To give up to another nation/state at its request
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Interdict
Prohibit
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Penury
- extreme poverty
- destitution
- indigence
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Depravity
- to make morally bad
- corrupt
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Complacency
Calm and satisfied
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Pernicious
- deadly and fatal
- harmful
- deleterious
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Parsimony
Stinginess
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Ignobility
WITHOUT nobility
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Antipathy
Instinctive opposition in feeling
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Probity
Good behavior
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Predilection
- tendency to favor
- partiality
- preference
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Extirpate
To destroy completely
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Covenant
Agreement
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Augury
Practice of omen/indication/token
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Polemical
Controversial
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Exasperate
To upset
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Didactic
Intended to teach
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Laudatory
Praising attitude
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Hubris
Arrogance
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Sordid
- morally ignoble
- vile
- filthy
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Derision
Ridicule, mockery
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