Test 2 Flashcards by Eve Wang

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Apathy

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Lack of energy or interest

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Autonomy

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Self-government

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Benevolent

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Kindly

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Blanched

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Turned pale

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Bolster

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Give support to

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Bucolic

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Concerned with the countryside and farming

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Callous

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Cruel and unfeeling

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Cantankerous

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Bad tempered

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Chicanery

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Trickery; attempt to deceive

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Churlish

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ill-mannered

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Cohesive

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Forming a whole; ‘sticking’ together

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Concur

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Agree

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Decimation

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Extensive destruction

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Deft

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Skillful

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Delinquency

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Wrong-doing

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Depravity

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Moral Corruption

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Desolate

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Lonely; devoid of life; feeling very sad and hopeless

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Devoid of

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Empty of

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Didactic

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Intending to teach or give instructions

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Disingenous

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Crafty

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Disposition

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Tendency; personality

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Dissent

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Disagreement

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Effusive

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Overly expressive of emotions; ‘gushing’

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Endorse

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Support

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Enigma

Puzzle

Enumerate

Count out; list

Ephemeral

Short-lived

Erroneous

Wrong

Erudition

Great knowledge or learning

Esoteric

Obscure

Fabrication

Something made up; Untrue

Facetious

Cheeky; not to be taken seriously

Factions

Sides in a dispute; group with common interests

Flotsam

Floating rubbish

Fostered

Encouraged

Hackneyed

Stale and over-used

Habored

held "as in harbor an idea"

Hodgepodge

Strange mixture

Impetuous

Impulsive

Implacable

Cannot be appeased; relenetless

Impugned

Challenged; attacked in words

Incorrigible

Cannot be corrected (of behaviour)

Indigenous

Native to a particular place

Ineffable

Cannot be expressed in words

Irascible

Easily angered

Ironic

Unexpected

Languid

Having no energy or interest

Lassitude

Lack of energy

Lugubrious

Mournful; very sad

Mercurial

Rapidly changing

Misnomer

Wrong name for something

Mollified

Calmed; Pacified

Mundane

Dull; ordinary

Omnipotent

All powerful

Pedagogy

Science of Teaching

Phlegmatic

Calm

Plausible

Believable

Precursor

Fore-runner; earlier version

Preeminence

Fame; top position

Pretentious

putting on an act

Prognosis

Outlook

Prolific

Productive

Raiment

Clothes; Garments

Reciprocate

Pay back

Remiss

Wrong

Remonstrance

Criticism

Resilient

Able to spring back; strong

Retrenchment

Reducing staff or forces; conserving resources

Robust

firm and strong

Skeptical

Doubtful

Skewed

Bent; distorted

Succint

Short and well expressed

Sundry

miscellaneous

Sustenance

support; food

Tenable

Can be held (of an opinion, for example)

Tenuous

Shaky; not firm

Torrid

Hot and steamy

Undermine

Attempt to overthrow; weaken

Underscore

Emphasize

Unequivocal

Clear; cannot be misunderstood

Vector

Carrier (of disease, for example)

Verbose

Wordy

Whimsical

Fickle; changeable

Wistful

Full of sadness and longing