Test 7 Flashcards

(65 cards)

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Aberration

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deviation; abnormality

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Abstruse

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difficult to comprehend

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Affability

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friendliness; cordiality

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Affluence

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wealth and status

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Alleviation

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making less severe

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Amalgamation

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mixture or joining of different components

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Amassed

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accumulated

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Arcane

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esoteric

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Augmenting

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increasing in size or number

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Belied

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contradicted

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Benevolent

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kindly

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Callous

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cruel and unfeeling

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Candid

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truthful; honest

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Coalition

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a union of two parts

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Concordance

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agreement

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Conflagration

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big fire

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Copious

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in large amounts

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Dearth

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shortage

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Debacle

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disaster

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Disarming

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charming; unthreatening

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Disillusioned

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freed from wrong ideas

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Disparaging

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criticizing

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Embellished

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decorated

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Empathetic

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understanding in an insightful way

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Encompassed
included; surrounded
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Endorsement
support; approval
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Entourage
group of followers; retinue
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Equanimity
peace of mind; balance; calm
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Eradicating
wiping out; destroying
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Esoteric
obscure
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Exacerbated
made worse
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Excised
cut out
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Exotic
strange; foreign
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Faction
section; group with common interests
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Finagle
wheedle; wangle; trick
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Grating
harsh; rasping
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Gratuitous
free; unwarranted
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Hackneyed
commonplace; over-used
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Insightful
perceptive
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Insolence
rudeness
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Intrigued
interested and curious
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Intuition
sixth sense; ‘gut feeling’
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Languid
lacking energy; weak
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Lobby
1. to try to persuade, 2. entrance hall
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Lucid
clear
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Marred
spoiled; ruined
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Meager
small; scanty
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Monotonous
dull; repetitive
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Motley
varied; miscellaneous
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Opting
choosing
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Overhaul
renovate
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Preclude
prevent
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Precursors
forerunners
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Purportedly
apparently claiming
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Ratify
give official approval to
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Resilience
strength; ability to withstand
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Retraction
removal; ‘taking back’
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Sporadic
intermittent; on and off
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Spurned
shunned; rejected
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Substantiated
backed up; given supporting evidence
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Supplant
replace
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Truculence
stubbornness
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Unequivocal
certain; cannot be disputed
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Voluminous
large; bulky; extensive
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Winnow
sift; separate good from bad