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