Test 2 Flashcards
(29 cards)
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Bombastic
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Too elaborate; exaggerated; inflated
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Aspersion
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Negative feeling; damaging remark
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Convoluted
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Complicated
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Cryptic
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Hidden
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Decorous
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Good and correct (use of behavior)
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Derivative
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Unoriginal
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Despot
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Tyrant
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Detritus
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Rubbish
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Diaphanous
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Very thin and transparent
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Dictum
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Often-used saying
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Dilettante
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Person who dabbles in the arts
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Dispassionate
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Unbiased; fair
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Elicit
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Evoke or draw out
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Elliptical
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Indirect
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Iconoclast
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Person who goes against accepted authority
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Idiosyncratic
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Quirky; unique
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Indigence
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Extreme poverty
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Jingoism
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Using words to stir up exaggerated patriotism
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Mendicancy
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Begging
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Milieu
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Environment; surroundings
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Nascent
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Just begun; in an early stage of development
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Ossified
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Become fixed and rigid
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Pastoral
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Concerned with the countryside
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Pedestrian
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Boring
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Perfidy
Treachery; betrayal
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Profligacy
Wasteful and immoral behavior
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Prohibitive
Very expensive
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Purveyor
One who sells something or causes something to spread
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Visceral
Concerned with the guts; physical rather than mental; related to deep inner feelings rather than intellect
