Test 2 Flashcards
(97 cards)
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Ambivalent
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undecided; having ‘mixed’ feelings
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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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Capricious
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changeable; fickle
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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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Cryptic
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hidden; obscure
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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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Disingenuous
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crafty
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Dispassionate
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unbiased
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Disposition
tendency; personality
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Dissent
disagreement
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Effusive
overly expressive of emotions; 'gushing'
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Endorse
support
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Enigma
puzzle
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Enumerate
count out; list
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Ephemeral
short-lived
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Erroneous
wrong
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Erudition
great knowledge or learning
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Esoteric
obscure
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Fabrication
something made up; untrue
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Facetious
cheeky; not to be taken seriously
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Factions
sides in a dispute; groups with common interests
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Flotsam
floating rubbish
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Fostered
encouraged
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Hackneyed
stale and over-used
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Harbored
held [as in 'harbored and idea']
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Hodgepodge
strange mixture
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Hypothetical
not proven; based on guesswork
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Impetuous
impulsive
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Implacable
cannot be appeased; relentless
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Impugned
challenged; attacked in words
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Incorrigible
cannot be corrected (of behavior)
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Indigenous
native to a particular place
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Ineffable
cannot be expressed in words
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Irascible
easily angered
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Ironic
unexpected
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Lament
express regret
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Languid
having no energy or interest
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Lassitude
lack of energy
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Lugubrious
mournful; very sad
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Mercurial
rapidly changing
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Misnomer
wrong name for something
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Mollified
calmed; pacified
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Multifaceted
having many aspects
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Mundane
dull; ordinary
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Nostalgic
longing for the past
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Obtrusive
easily seen; 'sticking out'
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Omnipotent
all powerful
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Pedagogy
science of teaching
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Phlegmatic
calm
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Plausible
believable
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Precursor
fore-runner; earlier version
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Preeminence
fame; top position
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Pretentious
putting on an act
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Prognosis
outlook
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Prolific
producing a lot
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Provocative
provoking
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Raiment
clothes; garments
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Reciprocate
pay back
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Reconcile
bring disputing sides together again
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Remiss
wrong
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Remonstrance
criticism
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Resilient
able to spring back; strong
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Retrenchment
reducing staff or forces; conserving resources
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Robust
firm and strong
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Skeptical
doubtful
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Skewed
distorted; bent
83
Stringent
strict
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Subtle
not obvious
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Succinct
clear, short and well-expressed
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Sundry
miscellaneous
87
Sustenance
support; food
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Tenable
can be held (of an opinion, for example)
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Tenuous
shaky; not firm
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Torrid
hot and steamy
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Undermine
attempt to overthrow; weaken
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Underscore
emphasize
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Unequivocal
clear; cannot be misunderstood
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Vector
carrier (of disease, for example)
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Verbose
wordy
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Whimsical
fickle; changeable
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Wistful
full of sadness and longing
